Sentences with phrase «gimmicky comedies»

Cartoonist Ted Key (Hazel) came up with the gimmick concept for this field goal - kicking mule in between two other gimmicky comedies — 1971's Million Dollar Duck and 1978's The Cat From Outer Space.

For all the energy that Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman, and their castmates pour into their gimmicky comedy, there's too often a feeling that they're straining to pump up flat material.

Despite the cameos of over 30 movie stars and big budget, George Sidney's gimmicky comedy, starring Mexican actor Cantinflas who goes to Hollywood to take care of his horse, is one of Hollywood's biggest flops of the 1960s.

Fans of romantic fiction may enjoy this gimmicky comedy, which cleverly plays around with Jane Austen's fiction but kind of misses its own joke.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you are expecting some gimmicky comedy like Ted... though this one is funnier than Howard the Duck.

Not exact matches

After a couple of gimmicky transgressive comedies (Humpday and Your Sister's Sister), writer - director Lynn Shelton takes a more observant approach this time.

Though buoyed by fine performances, director Craig Gillespie's gimmicky film can't successfully juggle its disparate tones: part «Raising Arizona» - style white - trash comedy, part tragic downfall.

Related by only one gimmicky cross-referenced scene, this is a pair of goofy political comedies coloured with rude jokes to skewer the gravitas of the gunslinging action genre.

Setting a stoner comedy the night before Christmas might seem like a bad idea (or a gimmicky one at least) but in the hands of gifted director Jonathan Levine, this it's a brilliant one.

Nancy (Lake Bell) and Jack (Simon Pegg) meet cute via a consciously gimmicky romantic - comedy misunderstanding — he mistakes her for his blind date because she's carrying a smarmy self - help book (which his actual intended date pressed on her in a spirit of Good Samaritanism), and she decides to play the role — but rather than stretching this nonsense out to the end of the film and turning it into a barrier to their relationship, Morris and Palmer dispense with it early, then find new ways to play havoc with the budding relationship.

The title inherently rings false, but what have we come to expect with gimmicky romantic comedies anyway?

Yes Man marks a return for Jim Carrey back to his roots of gimmicky high - concept comedy ideas that ride on his charmingly goofy personality reacting to a variety of situations based on some metamorphosis to his initial average - guy persona (see Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty).