Sentences with phrase «genre parody»

It's hard to believe this isn't a genre parody.

Long before it ends, the movie has already started to feel like a long stunt, a genre parody for the sake of itself, with no larger comment or insight to offer.

It's a gritty New York shoot»em up that is so over-the-top at times that it straddles genre parody, but it's never less than fun.

This is anachronism the other way — not the kind that, in scene after scene of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, made an ultimately tiresome contemporary joke out of an originally promising genre parody.

He tackled the «genre parody» material to slightly better effect 13 years ago in the original Scary Movie; at best, his latest effort allows him room to work his improvisational skills but must be considered a sideways career step.

«Dance Flick» should, theoretically, set itself apart from «Epic Movie,» «Disaster Movie» and every other sub-subpar genre parody of recent years.

The New York Times» A.O. Scott says the film «blends genre parody, snappy verbal humor and sublimely preposterous action - movie mayhem.»

As for the film itself, though Waititi includes aspects that play like genre parody — a montage scored to Leonard Cohen's interpretation of the «Song of the French Partisan» unexpectedly recalling McCabe & Mrs. Miller; a Mad Max - like chase climax; Lukasz Buda, Samuel Scott and Conrad Wedde's 1980s - style synthesizer - laden score — Hunt for the Wilderpeople is ultimately disarming in its innocent sincerity.

by Bill Chambers Neither the audacity of Mel Brooks's perpetually relevant Blazing Saddles nor the movie - love that manifested itself in his uncanny genre parodies Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety inhabit Brooks's Spaceballs, a spoof tailored to the undiscriminating palate of preteens and people who can't resist a joke at the expense of Star Wars hobbyists.

I suppose I should credit them for at least not targeting the two most ubiquitous media whores in mainstream pop culture - Britney Spears and Paris Hilton - but how is it possible that self - proclaimed purveyors of genre parodies like Friedberg and Selzter are so uninformed about actual disaster movies that they couldn't put together a movie that actually makes fun of them?

Not exact matches

The Onion recently consecrated the genre by launching a parody podcast with the spectacularly redundant title, «A Very Fatal Murder.»

Enquire for more information Dave the Barbarian (2004 - 2005) is a Disney animated series, an Affectionate Parody of the Heroic Fantasy genre.

Visual novels and dating simulators are strange beasts, and the intersection of those genres with comedy often results in parody.

OSS 117 is a near perfect comedy film that parodies the spy genre very well.

You'd have to be stupid to not see how ripe that genre is for parody... well, I guess this is Frienderg and Setzer we are talking about.

Despite its original premise, it ultimately brings nothing new to the already long overmined RPG parody genre beyond a pretty uninteresting twist on combat.

(There's a lot of meat to be mined in a clever dissection of the zombie genre, in other words, whereas most action flicks of this type are already self - parodying exercises in excessive hetero - affirmation amidst much piece - fondling and weeping.)

It's important to remember that these films are more than just spoofs or parodies of the genres they emulate as each film has a powerful emotional core with something to say about friendship, growing up and more.

At first, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner told real stories, however goofily (Young Frankenstein, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), and had real things to say (Blazing Saddles isn't just parody but satire; it is about racism in the Western genre).

Along the way, the movie's loose, likable structure is able to accommodate parodies of a variety of movie genres, from historical epic to cowpoke cornball to drawing - room sizzler.

Whereas the first two had specific genre targets to parody, Scary Movie 3 takes its inspiration, so to speak, from Signs, The Ring, 8 Mile, and The Matrix movies.

Horror parodies and deconstructions only work if the filmmaker has a genuine passion and deep knowledge of the genre.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's very R - Rated comedy / parody of the western genre A Million Ways to Die in the West arrives this May, though his fans won't have to wait too long thereafter for his next directorial feature.

Fortunately, it redeems itself with irresistible characters, kick - ass pacing, and a cast that knows how to keep a straight face as it takes the stock characters speaking seemly stock dialogue into the rarified, amped up atmosphere of a slick and deliberately self - conscious parody of the action genre.

In this case, Russell has an underlying conception and a unifying style — a pop - art, comic - strip style, built on parodies of old movie genres.

If only the rest of it was as good as the hilarious film - within - the - film «Moonlake Quake», a knowing parody of another genre entirely.

• «HONEYSPIDER gives us the movie within a movie «Sleepover Slaughterhouse Part 3, ″ which is probably the best parody of the 80s slasher genre I've ever seen.»

But where Playing It Cool falls slightly however is that it's never sure of itself as to whether they are parodying genre conventions or just bowing down to them.

franchise only speaks to their impact as disposable entertainment: a genre is ready for parody when it does not take itself too seriously, and I doubt the Zucker or Wayans brothers would dare make a spoof of «Deepwater Horizon» and its ilk.

The fact that «Scary Movie 4,» like its predecessor, is directed by David Zucker is rather depressing, given that Zucker helmed classics in the parody genre, including «Top Secret,» two of the three «Naked Gun» films, and the granddaddy of them all, «Airplane!»

-- with Fay Grim, which focused on Simon's sister (Parker Posey) and belonged to a completely different genre (espionage parody).

What started as a way of parodying the «Scream» films (themselves ostensibly a parody of the horror genre to begin with) has evolved into a franchise which takes shots at pretty much any movie it wants, from «Million Dollar Baby» to «Brokeback Mountain.»

Drunken Master II — Jackie Chan stars in the sequel to his classic Wong Fei - hung parody that helped invent the modern martial arts comedy genre.

Before the whole «[GENERIC DESCRIPTOR] Movie» fad of the late 90's and 2000's tanked into low brow gunk, Naked Gun and Hot Shots were riding out the excellent parody genre in style.

Best Night Ever (R for profanity, graphic nudity, drug use, crude humor and pervasive profanity) Parody of the road trip genre about a bride - to - be (Desiree Hall) who gets more than she bargained for when she ventures to Vegas with her bridesmaids for a bawdy bachelorette party.

A punk rock riff on the immortal genre, Hiroyuki Nakano's film is a big comedic hug to samurai flicks that borders on parody.

The Tick is supposed to ridicule and parody the superhero genre, but unfortunately it fails to deliver on every level.

It doesn't resort to parody or take delight in brutal murders, but like Scream or Cabin in the Woods, it recognizes the inherent ridiculousness of its genre and has fun with that conceit.

The Lady From Shanghai — Orson Welles's craziest film appropriately ends in a funhouse Hall Of Mirrors, as that's exactly what it does to the film noir genre: twist and distort and exaggerate it almost to the point of parody at the very peak of its popularity.

The problem isn't exactly that Student Bodies is parodying a genre that's inherently self - parodying.

As it descends from a Vietnam parody down to an all - out gun battle in a heroin production factory, it excels in both the action genre and the comedy.

, was MAD's fourth send - up of the Western genre and it was published under the auspices of the «Western Dept.» Soon after, in issue 12 the first non-Western movie parody appeared under the «Movie Dept.» rubric: From Eternity Back to Here by comics master Bernie Krigstein.

Retro City Rampage Developer: Vblank Entertainment A parody of the open - world action genre.

Staff * The action genre reaches new levels of unintentional self - parody in Seagal's latest film.

The various other genre awards are won by Christopher Willis his Russian - inspired music for the satirical comedy «The Death of Stalin»; and Theodore Shapiro for his anarchic but wonderfully sincere score for the animated super hero parody «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Adventure».

, but also the genre being parodied.

League explained — through his fake and sometimes - dangling beard — that we were all there to celebrate the «sword - and - sandals» genre, and that David Gordon Green's film was an homage — rather than a parody — of movies like Dragonslayer, Legend, Krull, or The Sword and The Sorcerer.

Yet Pirates is in many ways just what he intended: «something of a parody of the genre.»

Such bad taste is par for the course in this Wayans Brothers production superficially patterned after Scary Movie, their hilarious spoof of horror films that inspired a host of take - the - money - and - run parodies of other genres, including Not Another Teen Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Superhero Movie, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie.

Furthermore, Wright even plays his genre exercises against themselves, not merely parodying tropes but pushing them into more complex places.