Even though this trailer does have some of
the great jokes in the movie, including that Terminator reference at the end, they've been smart to leave out plenty of the best ones.
Not exact matches
Keeping enough of the
movies greatest hits («Stop trying to make fetch happen») while sprinkling
in new
jokes about RuPaul's Drag Race and the president's Twitter account pleased critics.
Kristen Connolly's Dana is a decent and empathetic primary protagonist, but the real casting highlight is Fran Kranz, who completely steals the show as one of the
great all - time
movie stoners Marty, whose unique drug - addled world logic not only aids
in its survival, but provides some of the film's best
jokes.
A
great performance by Hugh Jackman and a ton of
in -
jokes make it a fun
movie for the whole family.
But even
in the
movie's most straightforward moments — some gentle comedy involving Mary and her
great - aunt's housekeeper, or a visual
joke in which a cat seems to change color — the delicate interplay of soft textures and painterly hues pulls you deeply into this story's world.
Though Southpaw may not be the kind of
movie that Academy voters will deliver accolades to, it's a masterful performance for Gyllenhaal,
in a role originally intended for left - handed rapper Eminem (no
joke), who breathes a
great deal of life to a role that could easily have been deemed underwritten if left to someone who didn't add more to what had been on the written pages of the old - fashioned script.
And as 2016's Deadpool made clear, the
greatest of those powers may be his complete self - awareness: The majority of
jokes in Deadpool were focused on flaying the titular hero and the superhero industrial complex, whether that meant poking fun at Reynolds's career and Fox's run of bad superhero
movies or inserting raunchy one - liners and superfluous gore into the
movie's big action sequences
in order to earn its rare - for - the - genre R rating.
Not every
joke lands, and the
movie begins to lose steam
in the final act, but «Popstar» does just enough to keep you entertained with its cavalcade of musician cameos and a
great lead performance by Samberg, who channels Derek Zoolander as the clueless, self - confident popstar.
While he may be a
joke among some
in the industry, action
movie auteur Izu Ojukwu cites Ejiro as a model for success but has
greater ambitions for himself: he embarks on the most expensive and ambitious film
in Nigerian film history
in the course of this profile, a project so big that it almost ruins him.
In the few «movie years» since the end of the original, Mac, Rabbit, Thorny, Foster and Farva all lost their jobs due to the «Fred Savage incident» — which is a running joke throughout the film — with a great payoff in the closing credit
In the few «
movie years» since the end of the original, Mac, Rabbit, Thorny, Foster and Farva all lost their jobs due to the «Fred Savage incident» — which is a running
joke throughout the film — with a
great payoff
in the closing credit
in the closing credits.
Allowing his name, persona, and «image» (though one of the
movie's
great running
jokes is that nobody can quite remember who he is) to be utilized
in this bizarre, absurdist fashion required a
great leap of faith, especially since both Kaufman and director Spike Jonze were relative nobodies at the time.
There's such
great suspension of disbelief and attention to detail (and I will go toe - to - toe with anyone who questions that this
movie is FILLED with clever little
jokes, details, and
in gags... it's remarkable) that even a gap of years between the present and my last viewing doesn't stop me from knowing every line, every nuance, and every
joke.
When you critique a
movie you are obviously doing so as a sensitive, thoughtful human being on behalf and
in defence of
greater human virtues — and you love a good, dirty
joke if no - one is being debased or humiliated.