Sentences with phrase «hammy performances»

While a comedy with ample kooky characterizations, satirical situations, and lots of other - worldly effects would seem right up Burton's alley, all he can manage are a few scattered laughs, some hammy performances, and lots of oddball narrative dead ends.

I still like the movie quite a bit because of some rote dialogue that is somehow still very catchy, some hammy performances from the three male leads and the tale of early fast food franchises has always somewhat interested me.

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.

It is played painfully over the top, from the hammy performances to the clunky dialogue and stock thriller soundtrack, but the action isn't over the top or the tone fun enough to make this work.

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.

He is, in fact, dwarfed by George, and every other hammy performance on screen, his presence shockingly overshadowed, his usually radioactive charisma dimmed.

But Herzog's deliberately bonkers approach, matched by Cage's hammy performance, is strangely entertaining.Detective Terence McDonagh (Cage)...

I did worry the sequence made the film's many great performances (from a pretty incredible cast) seem like crude caricatures that further hammed up some of the hammiest performances in movie history.

In «Transformer,» a short video projected in the back gallery, the artist offers a decidedly hammy performance combining elements of «An American Werewolf in London» with Michael Jackson's «Thriller.»

Not exact matches

Joston's performance may be hammy by today's standards but its the perfect foil and is typical of many old classic western tough guys... «got a smoke?»

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.

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.

But it's great to see so many mature stars together on screen giving hammy, knowing performances that more than make up for the over-serious The Expendables.

While Willis continues to phone in his performance with the same on - screen persona he's been giving us for the last decade or two, the other main actors get their chances to shine, especially an always fun Helen Mirren (Monsters University, Hitchcock) and John Malkovich, who know well enough to play to the audience that they know that the movie they're in is meant to be nothing but a hammy lark.

Wright's restlessness can be off - putting, but his technique feels like a reasonable match here for the high - stakes subject matter, and the heightened (but not hammy) pitch of the performances.

Elle Fanning's central performance adds needed weight, but all around her the tone is bizarre and the performances hammy.

Veteran character actor Homolka brings a hammy late - period Bela Lugosi flavor to his performance, underhandedly stealing every scene he's in, especially those opposite stolid Lewis.

I'll admit that in the wake of the enormous cultural impact Hannibal Lecter has had in the last 17 years, Hopkins» performance borders on hammy territory every so often, especially the sucking - in noise after the line about eating the census - taker's liver with some fava beans.

This is another one of those Pacino performances that's intentionally hammy, but not necessarily in a good way.

He takes the role far too earnestly, rarely allowing a ray of hammy camp to sneak into his overly self - serious and almost jokingly intense performance.

And while the first two acts are pretty good, Nolan loses the thread in the third, the realistic tone giving way to a hammy Liam Neeson performance («Excuse me, I have a city to destroy!»

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.