Sentences with phrase «high concept comedies»

Mandate Pictures have signed a two - year first - look deal with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride to produce high concept comedies with their brand of humor under a new label — Rough House Pictures.

Another high concept comedy (seeing a trend) sees the White House struggle to replace an incapacitated President with a look alike and Kevin Kline somehow makes the ridiculous story work.

The high concept comedy revolved around two radio journalists who lose their tickets and passports on the way to the airport.

The high concept comedy stars Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and John Cena as the parents of three teen girls planning to lose their virginity on prom night.

The high concept comedy seems to circle around inspired moments of mirth; one senses there is a better movie lurking inside director Nick Park's hit / miss grab at World Cup football fever relevance.

Not exact matches

With director Mark Waters at the helm (no stranger to these high concept «comedies», with the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as well as crowning achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory note.

Game Night is an excellent example of how to make a high - concept comedy.

However, underneath the high - concept themes of the film, Rumor Has It remains a routine romantic comedy with serious moments thrown in, and will likely only please viewers considered to be regulars of the genre.

Directed by John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London) at the height of his success and released the same year as both his iconic music video for Michael Jackson's «Thriller» and his career - damaging lethal contribution to Twilight Zone: The Movie, this is a high - concept comedy as straightforward as its title suggests.

It's as high - concept as high - concept comedies get: Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.

Ultimate manly man Arnold Schwarzenegger learns what it's like to be an expectant mother in director Ivan Reitman's high - concept comedy.

Viewers would be forgiven for their hesitance to see another movie from the directors of the «Vacation» reboot, but John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, working from a pitch - perfect screenplay by Mark Perez («Accepted»), have crafted an ensemble comedy that lives up to its high - concept premise while giving a gang of talented actors — including the gifted Jason Bateman, so rarely employed to great effect on the big screen — fun characters and big, outrageous moments.

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There are shades of Adams» comical tempo here, with layers of «Monty Python» - inspired visual gags and tropes familiar to fans of high - concept American movie comedies.

This may look like a basic high - concept comedy (the single - night party movie), and it is to a point, but Sisters is among the best of its kind.

The «Clone High» trio discuss returning to television with the promising new Fox comedy, maintaining the show's secrets, the origin of the concept, and Forte says the «MacGruber» sequel «seems like it could actually happen.»

Spawned from Patrick Jean's inventive short, Pixels has is a big, brash Roland Emmerich - style alien invasion thriller welded to a high - concept Sandler comedy.

The season is peppered with sequels, action flicks, high concept romantic comedies and all the other fair designed to take away cash from bored teens.

His latest video is a salute to Edgar Wright's high - concept comic book comedy Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

His latest video is a salute to Edgar Wright's high - concept comic book comedy Scott Pilgrim...

Director Favreau is particularly good at this kind of thing, having climbed his way up on brisk, smart, high - concept comedies like Made, Elf and Zathura.

«Takes some really interesting ideas about insecurity and empowerment and buries them in a high - concept, low - yield comedy with a constant, unavoidable buzz of wrongness» — Norm Wilner, NOW Magazine

It starts with anarchic comedy «21 & Over,» the directorial debut from the writers of «The Hangover,» followed by Dylan Kidd «s «Get A Job» alongside Anna Kendrick, Alison Brie and Bryan Cranston, high - concept rom - com «Two Night Stand» with Analeigh Tipton, and, yes, «Are We Officially Dating?

The results didn't light the world on fire like the zombie horror spoof, but 30 Minutes Or Less is a genuinely funny high - concept slacker comedy that never lets up, yet never feels rushed.

French comedian Dany Boon («Micmacs «-RRB- and German actress Diane Kruger («Inglourious Basterds «-RRB- are going to star in a high - concept action - adventure comedy «Fly Me To The Moon,» directed by Pascal Chaumeil, the man behind last year's charming «Heartbreaker» hotties Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis.

This is a high - concept comedy that's firmly, almost defiantly rooted in the real world, among fully three - dimensional human beings whose behavior doesn't conform to a rigid template.

Its awkward mix of high - concept comedy, magic (literalizing the walk - a-mile-in-someone-else's shoes cliché) and grating sentimentality would be off - putting coming from anyone, but from a director whose stock in trade to that point had been gentle dramedies, delivering human insights with a deft light hand?

Bad Teacher director Jake Kasdan is in talks to re-team with Jason Segel for the high - concept comedy Sex Tape.

Bruce Almighty is an attempt by Jim Carrey (The Majestic, Me Myself & Irene) to marry the comedies that made him a star with the more high - concept films he has made since becoming a more serious actor.

«My Boyfriend's Back» (citywide), an awful teen horror comedy, hits a new low in high concepts: a 17 - year - old (Andrew Lowery) wants to take the girl (Traci Lind) of his dreams to the big prom so badly that not even death will stop him.

Going into Game Night, another high - concept R - rated comedy, I wondered if we'd have the same problem, but we do not.

It's a comedy that might as well have been transported from Hollywood's Golden Age of high - concept, screwball comedies (if it had been in black - and - white and had a few edits for content, obviously).

In the years before he became an A-list superstar, Tom Hanks cranked out one high - concept comedy after another — from 1984's Bachelor Party to 1986's The Money Pit to 1985's The Man with One Red Shoe.

It's not hard to see the appeal of a movie like this — again, the premise is a slam - dunk as far as high - concept comedies go — but the execution is, at best, lacking, and at worst, baffling (why, for example, does this movie have more false endings than

«Grudge Match» is a sort of «Punchy Old Men», a slow - footed high - concept comedy that pairs up the screen's greatest pugilists, circa 1981, for a few slaps and a few laughs.

Tiff follows the Venice and Telluride festivals, where critics have been enthused by Guillermo del Toro's fantasy The Shape of Water, Alexander Payne's high - concept comedy Downsizing, Darren Aronofsky's domestic horror Mother!

For a movie using a really great high - concept idea, it is mind - boggling that the screen writers and director didn't have guts to make a really daring and interesting comedy, while instead giving the film so many standard and unsatisfying sub-plots to drag the film down.

There is clearly a space for high concept family comedies featuring talking animals and some humans looking like they'd rather be anywhere else doing anything else.

It's being described as a «high - concept comedy» in which extraterrestrials set the human race a moral test by selecting one individual and giving them the power to do anything they wish.

However, the problem is that screenwriter Craig Mazin has something of a track record, when it comes to crafting comedies that can not sustain their high - concepts and end up repeating the same (unfunny) jokes over and over (see: Scary Movie 4, Superhero Movie, The Hangover Part II).

The two Charlie's Angels movies grossed $ 100 M domestically and $ 250 M worldwide on a familiar brand, a high action - comedy concept, and an ensemble.

Yes Man marks a return for Jim Carrey back to his roots of gimmicky high - concept comedy ideas that ride on his charmingly goofy personality reacting to a variety of situations based on some metamorphosis to his initial average - guy persona (see Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty).

The coming weekend sees another balanced offering, with high - concept, low - budget horror The Devil Inside (a US box - office smash, on opening weekend at least), action comedy 21 Jump Street, heist thriller Contraband and family drama We Bought a Zoo.

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Whereas most of today's family films execute a high concept with equal parts comedy and adventure, Ramona and Beezus takes a far more domestic and down - to - earth approach.

But Stiller is as about as strong a leading man as anyone in comedy today, and he helps keep the film afloat despite a flimsy high concept, as do good supporting performances.

McCoy is a Black List staple who's had a number of high - concept comedies in development in recent years.

A trained - from - birth teen spy faces her toughest assignment when she tries to pass as a normal teen in a comedy that strains to do right by its high - concept premise.

Somewhere in the film's development stage, it should have been apparent that a high - concept comedy that rides a hook, that friends and neighbors could all be conspiring to kill Spencer at any moment for millions of dollars, that itself isn't funny would have a difficult time generating amusement without clever writing to bolster it.

First, there was a notoriously high concept cop - comedy pairing him with a slobbery pooch («Turner and Hooch»), and then came Joe Dante's un-ambitious horror spoof dealing with the age - old suburban question of «just what are those freaky neighbors down the street doing?»