If you go into Hot Tub Time Machine expecting little like I did, you'll find
a halfway decent comedy.
Not exact matches
Imagine if the monkey - faced Ecce Homo were instead a
halfway decent portrait of a macaque, and you'll have some sense of what makes this mystifyingly competent grab - bag of lame»80s
comedy plot points, terrible gags, racist fears, and disturbing sexual subtexts unique.
But even with so many bad
comedies, Sandler has built a
halfway decent filmography.
The actors are sometimes fun to watch, especially when they stumble upon a
halfway decent line (Isis on Carla's basic level of love for her son: «I can't keep up with all these parenting trends») or amusingly weird bits of physical
comedy (stealing a Christmas tree from Lady Foot Locker).
Studio
comedies have been so bad for so long that when a
halfway decent one comes along, we critics tend to get overexcited.