Sentences with phrase «hammy as»

In particular, we didn't much care for the main character, and a few others are quite hammy as well.

Nonso Anozie is appropriately hammy as the lunatic Idi Amin, who chuckles and grins and talks up his own legend no matter what the situation.

But the direction is heavy - handed, John Travolta is very hammy as the villain and the movie is so full of envelope - pushing torture and sadism that it's likely to repel everyone but violence - addicts in need of a particularly gruesome fix.

Gary Oldman is sufficiently hammy as the cartoonish antagonist.

Nelligan is delightfully hammy as the scheming wife, coming away with the film's best line, and Fenn gives a generally boring character some life and personality.

Eisenberg goes a little too hammy as Luthor, who comes across as a hipster hybrid of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Willy Wonka.

She was hammy as, but it was funny.

Not exact matches

Since pulled hammies are known to linger for weeks, Philly opted not to play him as a big favorite over Brock Osweiler and the Broncos.

Maybe he's pissed off at Barca not paying the required fee as well, not to mention say he's got worn hammies.

Fulfilling his troth, Robin is convinced by the elder Loxley, Sir Walter (Max von Sydow, hammy), to take the dead prodigal's place as lord of the manor and husband of the distinctly displeased Marion in order to prevent the baronial lands from being seized by the grasping tax collectors of the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac, mincingly monotonous), whose chief henchman, Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong, bald), is playing a double game as both John's right arm and a stalking horse for a French invasion of England.

Its all very predictable and horrendously hammy these days, all the visual tomfoolery as Number 5 larks around getting into mischief whilst being oddly adorable at the same time.

Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots: They're good and hammy at what they do.

As the slave Demetrius in The Robe (1953), Mature is more understated and credible than the film's «distinguished» but hopelessly hammy star Richard Burton.

As the initial antagonist, a colorfully hammy Jeffrey Dean Morgan relishes in the part and Southern accent of enemy - turned - ally Agent Harvey Russell — «When science shits the bed, I'm the one they call to change the sheets,» he says — and delivers it with cowboy charm and swagger.

But Field still ends up as the film's weakest link, primarily due to her hammy performance.

As if that weren't horrific enough, the poor kids are also placed in the position of defending themselves against a rampaging Leslie Nielsen — whose hammy performance will probably have fans of the Naked Gun series and their ilk waiting for a punch line that never arrives.

A final kudos to Ernie Hudson as the shifty principle of the school, his performance isn't much better than his hammy role in «Congo» but that's why its so good.

The hammy younger actor [James Roday] isn't quite as cute as he thinks he is, and he belongs on a louder comedy series, a laugh - track sitcom in which his clowning might fit in more naturally.

Director Rupert Wyatt gets an adequate performance from Franco and a rather hammy one from Olyelowo, and Pinto is primarily window dressing, but moments of brilliance from Lithgow and a truly astounding performance by Andy Serkis as the motion - capture - animated Caesar make rise of the Planet of the Apes worth seeing.

Stanley Tucci shows off his always underestimated charisma as the hammy TV host Caesar Flickerman, which would be notable even if this movie were not.

There is none of that to Depp's cartoonish Hatter, Bonham Carter's hammy Red Queen, or Wasikowska's Alice, who again fades despite efforts to paint her as a courageous heroine.

French actress Elodie Yung looks uncomfortable as Bryce's Interpol agent ex, while Gary Oldman is hammy in the thankless role of an Eastern European dictator.

The dialogue is clichéd, as are the characters (sometimes in a racial or ethnic fashion, which is over the line to the offensive side of hammy).

The cast is strong across the board, especially Morton and an enjoyably hammy Kevin Durand as Packer's head of security.

Carrell steals the show as Hammy, who has most of the funny lines.

The promotional materials for Thor: Ragnarok continue to give us pretty much everything we could want from a superhero movie about alien space - Norse gods duking it out: Jeff Goldblum being hammy, Hulk punching giant wolves and fire giants, and Chris Hemsworth affably goofing his way through another turn as the...

How delightfully hammy Billy Zane is as the jilted fiancé.

The rest of the cast do well enough in their perspective roles, though Law's turn as Vortigern often errs on the side of hammy rather than deliciously foppy.

As Victor, James McAvoy waffles between a believably wounded and vulnerable genius, and some hammy overacting.

Jackson hams it up incredibly and there must have been a bet between him and Don Johnson as to who would play the biggest cliche because both are hammier than a bacon sarnie.

Chris Pine and Billy Magnussen, as two frustrated princes, rip their shirtfronts open in a frenzy of competitive suffering in the amusingly hammy duet «Agony.»

Granted the grotesque, cartoony feel it revels in can allow for unnatural hammy performances, but few of the cast pull this off as effectively as I'd have liked.

Particularly entertaining is Minnie Driver's deliciously hammy turn as Carlotta, the Opera Populaire's resident diva whose star takes a tumble thanks to Christine's rising star and the Phantom's machinations; credit also must go to Margaret Preece, who provides Carlotta's amusingly overblown, ear - piercing vocals.

Presented more as a costume drama than a film with any modern relevance, Milk «s power to move is largely dependent on the viewer's ability to watch Sean Penn make hammy faces at the camera.

Equally hammy is Freddie Fox (Banana) as Finnegan, Victor's financier who has devious intentions of his own, and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) in a brief appearance as Victor's father, who shows up to establish the latter's - you guessed it - tragic backstory.

The middle segment is easily the weakest, since it revolves around a very literary conceit — Gina sneaking cigarettes behind Ryan's back — that flatlines without the interiority of prose, and the way a hammy but affecting Rene Auberjonois overshadows Williams as an elderly neighbour who gives up a piece of his soul for Gina's project doesn't exactly help clarify the movie's title.

But when their sneering ruler Mehmed II (a hammy Dominic Cooper) comes to demand the eldest son from every family as a hostage, Vlad seeks the help of an ancient vampire who offers him a terrible deal that might just save his people.

As problematic as the writing of Dixon is I don't think Rockwell helps it at all, leaning into his worst hammy instinctAs problematic as the writing of Dixon is I don't think Rockwell helps it at all, leaning into his worst hammy instinctas the writing of Dixon is I don't think Rockwell helps it at all, leaning into his worst hammy instincts.

Dev faces a similar conundrum in the professional sphere, as his new mentor, the agreeably hammy Chef Jeff (an excellent Bobby Cannavale), is revealed to be a serial sexual harasser.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

Built around the hoariest of plot devices (a Dubliner stalked by his evil doppelganger), with hammy acting to match, this attempt to highlight the social cost of Ireland's economic revival suffers from the same identity crisis as its tormented hero.

Garry Shandling barely registers as displaced leader Verne the turtle, but support comes from Steve Carell (hilariously zippy as squirrel Hammy), Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as porcupines, Wanda Sykes as a skunk, and William Shatner as a possum who's an expert at playing dead (get it?).

One can't help but giggle every time Geoffrey Rush appears as the hammy sun god Ra, hanging out on a space sailboat designed like a Cable Ace Awards set and shooting lasers at a giant sandworm.

The only weak link is Forest Whitaker as Clone Wars character Saw Gerrera; his performance is hammier than Babe in a panto, and doesn't quite fit in.

Especially strong are James Marsden, as a hammy telecaster, and Nathan Fielder, as the artistic leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency («This is what I painted while I was on amphetamines»).

The very much alive masked Myers continues slicing up vics, as the pompous profiteering shrink who treated Myers, the hammy Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), swears he's dead and the celebrity author comes out with another bestselling trashy book on the maniac that reveals that Laurie, living under an assumed name, is Myer's damaged - goods younger sister.

Though it does occasionally feel as if the supporting cast are reading from different scripts, War on Everyone also boasts an enjoyably hammy turn from Theo James as a British baddie with an insatiable bloodlust, while the ever - reliable Tessa Thompson helps redress the hormone imbalance as Terry's latest squeeze.

With a solid supporting ensemble that features a delightfully unhinged Jamie Foxx and Spacey on his more understated side of hammy, the film is nevertheless a great launching pad for Ansel Elgort as a multitalented leading man.

However, that doesn't make this a bad film, as there's quite a bit to like amid the hammy acting and pomposity of the situations.

Rock plays a shade of himself; a quasi-washed-up comedic actor famed as the title role in the critically flattened Hammy the Bear buddy cop films.