Sentences with phrase «good sight gag»

A lot of good sight gags.

Not exact matches

One sight gag is, well, just that — a real gag, in the other sense of the word.

The inevitable confrontation between good and evil is only a vehicle for continually inventive sight gags and biting lines.

Early Man, which goes out in the UK through Studiocanal on January 26 and Lionsgate in the US on Feburary 16 — the same team as Shaun The Sheep Movie, which grossed $ 106m worldwide in 2015 — scores highly on amiable charm, sight gags and open goal word play; however, it lacks the nifty footwork and originality of the best Aardman pictures.

But like the best work of Aardman, these touches or little sight gags take a back seat to the plot, and the film still works whatever age or however culture - literate you may be.

Cartoonish sight gags about being hit in the head and poked in the eyes are better in small doses before it starts becoming repetitive.

As a vaguely plotless collection of sight and sound gags and Jim Carrey riffs, the film uses its best stuff.

Anchorman 2, which was written by Ferrell and McKay, is better when it gives in to absolute absurdity: A sight gag involving a slo - mo RV crash is totally, dismissively dumb, but the fact that it's set to Captain and Tennille's «Muskrat Love» makes it inexplicably hilarious.

On DVD, the Farrellys provide audio commentary for the film and 11 deleted scenes, ranging from seconds - long sight gags to longish, well - developed segments (some were cut because the film had built up too many melodramatic scenes back to back, the Farrellys note).

A third act car chase is well - paced and directed, and includes many of the sight gags reminiscent of silent comedies.

The songs (many written by Sheryl Crow) often are funnier than entire Adam Sandler films and the sight gags work well.

This being a comedic spin, the movie, with Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum 2, Cheaper By the Dozen 2) directing with the blandness that has come to be his stock in trade, includes a «hilarious» pot - smoking scene, repeated sight gags centered on Fonda's enormous breasts, her grandkid's morning poop sessions and a last - minute gay twist that feels as contrived as the rest of Jonathan Tropper's script (based on his best - selling novel).

There would be nothing wrong with that, of course, but for a good hour or so Payne makes both excellent sight gags and interesting comment on consumerist society.

To give Grimsby credit, for a lowbrow comedy whose jokes are overwhelmingly rooted in gay panic and treating the bodies of larger women as walking sight gags, it's surprisingly good - natured, even sweet at times.

There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.

Although much of the humor and tone of the film is on par with it's original source, the sight gags and puns type humor was done to death by better films like Airplane!

But they also manage to incorporate the best of everything new that was happening in comedy at the time: the sight - gag overload of «Airplane!»

Director Blomkamp is good at mustering speedy action and posting grisly sight gags in the background, carnage always hovering comically at the edge of your vision.

It's more the popcorn thriller than I expected but with a strong cast and beautifully subdued visuals, its clichéd stunts and endless sight gags seem to work well.

There's lots of good stuff in this one, from the incredible music by Henry Mancini (Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany's), the brilliant job of Peter Sellers as Clouseau, and some well - set up sight gags.

While it is derivative at its core, the jokes and sight gags are often clever, and the writers use our familiarity with the subject matter to their advantage, applying the superhero angle to solutions for most teen problems, making a stale premise fresh with well - developed flair.

But it features terrific supporting performances as well, especially from male love interests portrayed by Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia and Nelson, who is responsible for the film's Big Talker of a sight gag, when his character runs afoul of a double dose of Viagra.

Fret not: Such high - mindedness has little diminished MacFarlane's appetite for locker - room humor, gross - out sight gags and bounteous pop - culture in - jokes, which should make «Ted 2» the season's go - to attraction for arrested - adolescent males of all ages, and continue Universal's beary good summer box office.

But Waititi also knows there's a unique groove to be found in the middle of all of this, and when the movie syncs up everything from its auteur's facility for sight gags to the actors» impressive young - fuck - up - meets - old - fart chemistry, Wilderpeople generates enough good will to make the stalest of plot devices feel semi-fresh.

The film offers a few surprises (as per routine with a Marvel movie, stay for the end credits), a good number of sight gags, and a full - bodied exploration of a fringe player in the comic book domain.

Director Stoller and writers Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien are graduates of the Judd Apatow school of studio humor, and so are well - versed in cooking up a comedy that adheres to a certain recipe: bookending the picture with big set - pieces, and then linking those set - pieces with a series of fast - paced episodes that rely chiefly on sight gags and as many obscenities as possible.

Baranski, Hines, and Sarandon get together for a low - key scene that happens to be the best one in the movie, where they sit down together and trade background information, issuing silly little one - liners that speak to their world views, no extensive slow - motion montages of weak sight gags required.

Well, this tale of a boy and his dog — rethought as a dinosaur and his boy — turns out to be a mixed bag, with some dazzlingly near - photo - real landscapes, sight gags that inspire waves of kiddie guffaws, and some impressive character animation sharing time with an overly familiar plot and character types.

The rear speakers are put to good use with music and effects for the sight gags ion the movie.

The short runs entirely on sight gags, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your tastes.

Replete with sight gags and punchlines that, by comparison to today's standards, feel sophisticated and novel, Planes is of course capped off with a happy and wholly satisfying ending that epitomizes the feel - good spirit of the holiday season.

There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the sight gag with the sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.

This year the most uproarious — not to mention best - selling — comedy was «Girls Trip,» an outrageous romp full of sight gags and repeatable one - liners with a star - making turn from Tiffany Haddish.

Plus there are some good sheep - based sight gags, and sheep are always funny.

Perhaps it wouldn't be laugh - out - loud funny, or even worthy of a smile, but the knowledge that this feeble sight gag is the best joke that they could muster for that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 makes it abysmally painful to endure.

THE GOOD: Gene Wilder's masterfully funny performance, Peter Boyle's endearing portrayal of the monster, the lush black and white photography, a great song and dance number, Gene Hackman (The French Connection, Bonnie and Clyde) as the blind man, Mel Brooks» adept direction, and some genuinely hilarious sight gags and characters.

There are sight gags around glass - fronted corporate boxes and Adidas Predator - style boots made from giant centipedes, as well as an on - point Alan Hansen impression from Rob Brydon.

Though its origin loosely comes from a three - decades - old book for kids, the original wit in the script, as well as the cavalcade of sight gags, will likely be appreciated by young and old alike.

The premise is an invitation to inevitable sight gags and director Craig Gillespie isn't one to turn down an easy laugh, but they are all good natured and Gosling plays Lars with such wide - eyed innocence that the seamier possibilities are put to rest.

Similarly, the vibrant animation bursts with colour whilst creating well - rounded protagonists, with plenty of smart sight gags included.

THE GOOD: GOLDMEMBER continues the funny sight gags (reminiscent of, and sometimes plagiarized, from Benny Hill) and some of them are laugh - out - loud hilarious.

The film is replete with sight gags (the best being the hospital «J» Ward) and verbal interplay between the Narrator and characters, but the actual number of times these gags are funny falls as the movie progresses.

It's a stunning sight gag, as well as a nod to anti-illusionist theater.