Sentences with phrase «human comedy as»

Easily the best frat boy comedy since Animal House, Neighbors crams its visually arresting 96 minute running time with as much deeply flawed human comedy as possible.

He crams those visually arresting minutes with as much deeply flawed human comedy as possible.

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The bad news is that human society is a never - ending comedy of errors in which our hopes and dreams play out as farce.

Queen Christina is now an A-III, as are Of Human Bondage and Gay Divorcee, described as «dated musical fluff» and «a lighthearted musical comedy with no real substance beyond its charming songs and dances.»

As many a TV situation comedy has demonstrated, human finitude can be very funny, and Auden heightens the humor by suggesting that the humdrum is caught up in salvation history.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

As the TV evangelist repeats pious Amens, many of us in the viewing audience are likely to look upon the «cure» as a part of the human comedy that we don't understanAs the TV evangelist repeats pious Amens, many of us in the viewing audience are likely to look upon the «cure» as a part of the human comedy that we don't understanas a part of the human comedy that we don't understand.

For example, he says, Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy was released in serial form as a work of «popular» fiction, but has since attained the status of a classic.

It's a Boy Girl Thing is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Nick Hurran and written by Geoff Deane, starring Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong and Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a This hit comedy chronicles the foibles of disgruntled office workers — led by deluded boss Michael Scott — at the Dunder Mifflin paper company.

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But where Sightseers was merely incompetent, We're The Millers seems to take delight in human misery as an end or source of humour in itself; it doesn't use pain or suffering to deepen the characters, it simply offers it as a benchmark of modern comedy.

Following an unlikely appearance as a football player in The Replacements (2000) and a turn as the son of Old Scratch in Little Nicky (2000), Ifans» role as a socially challenged forest dweller turned opera - loving socialite in the eccentric Human Nature provided audiences with abundant laughs and a further glimpse into the quirkiness of a truly unique actor.Of course the ever - eccentric Ifans was only warming up, and after supporting roles in such efforts as The 51st State, The Shipping News and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Ifans once again took the lead in the 2003 comedy Donnie Deckchair.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

Some of the biggest and brightest stars in British comedy appear in this performance film, which documents a revue staged by John Cleese of Monty Python as a benefit for the human rights group Amnesty International.

I get that it's supposed to be a black comedy; I get that it's Eisner's characters and situations as filtered Miller's sensibilities; I even get that The Octopus [Samuel L. Jackson] is supposed to an evil, human version of Wile E. Coyote / Yosemite Sam, while The Spirit is The Roadrunner / Bugs Bunny.

That sound alone makes Landline skew more toward comedy than drama, but it's also as heart - stoppingly human and sympathetic as any tearjerker.

Aside from these momentary lapses and some third - act stuff that wants us to take the characters far more seriously as human beings than we're capable of doing, «The Campaign» is an effective vulgar comedy about two idiots competing with each other.

And the marvel is that she never loses her innate femininity, even when performing some very outlandish physical comedy — like turning her Lily Garland character into a human barbell so lover boy Bruce Granit (Andy Karl being absurdly macho) can do his bicep curls as the 20th Century carries the two of them from Chicago to New York City in 16 hours.

Of Human Hearts and No time For Comedy are available as manufacture on demand (MOD) DVDs through Warner Archive.

George and Davis do little comedy routines, down to the ape delivering a giant middle finger as a way to troll his human handler.

Instead of yuck, we get something wonderful: a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.

The film didn't do much on release, and it's not hard to see why — starting out as a sweet quirky comedy and devolving into something with a much sourer heart and quite the pessimistic streak (at least as far as humans are concerned) it's a film that is difficult to categorize, and therefore sell, without disappointing the audiences who show up expecting something a bit more straightforward.

It would have been easy to continue beating the dead horse or make a full - blown comedy that, while humorous, does not portray Tommy as a human being with notable flaws.

Östlund's method, as always, is to stage the human comedy in miniature: Nearly every scene is presented as an impeccably framed tableau, a tactic that effectively transforms characters, extras and audiences alike into participants in a grand sociological study.

Johnson stars as the human astronaut, and he seems to be having a good time, but this harmless, humdrum animated comedy never demonstrates any imagination beyond its premise, and there's nary a laugh to be found.

The man looks downright igneous, more rock formation than human man; at first, this is played off as a source of expected comedy.

Are these scenes as successful as the human comedy that has preceded them?

And that's also why the film works so well as a comedy; for the most part, it is a human one.

Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, «The Awful Truth» is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

Henson Alternative is now launching its first feature film: The Happytime Murders, described as a neo-noir puppet crime comedy mystery film, taking place in a world where puppets co-exist with humans, but are seen as second - class citizens.

«Twin Peaks» attention to the most bathetic moments of human existence is strangely comforting, even as a comedy of manners in an apartment complex's anonymous hallway gives way, with one twisted doorknob, into a ritualistic horror show.

PAUL SCHEER is most known as a star of the FX series «The League» and also as the co-creator and one of the stars of the cult MTV sketch series, Human Giant as well as the Adult Swim action - comedy series NTSF: SD: SUV::.

Despite the lack of discipline, Apatow is trying to stretch himself, to say something about human nature: his insight here is less about comedy than about adult life as a succession of equivocations and betrayals.

In this dark comedy that portrays bloodsuckers as wise but melancholy figures, Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston play eternal lovers who have learned to tolerate the predictably disappointing limitations of the humans with whom they must share this planet.

Both men were born in Brooklyn, started as stand - up comedians, and became famous for writing distinctly Jewish comedies, works steeped in neuroses and observational human humor.

Comedy and laughter in this film finally serve as the glue of human relations, the foundation of community.

In fact, most scenes tended to go completely against the grain, where one scene played for silly comedy while the next ended up being dark, brooding and excessively violent in a way that loses the audience sympathy and ability to identify with any of the characters as human beings.

A comedy with just as many moments of sadness, disaffection and humiliation as there are laughs, the film never shies away from awkward human strangeness.

Becker's impressively batshit comedy attempts to ring laughs out of everything from debilitating / hilarious facial paralysis, tanning accidents, jetpacks, and perhaps most insanely, a subplot involving Bernie Mac (in, tragically, his final performance) as a superstar puppeteer with a weird human - sized puppet suit that allows him to manipulate real people (in this case Williams) as if he were an enormous puppet.

However, as much of an actors» director as Cassavetes has been known to be, there's only so much he can do for the likes of bikini bombshell Kate Upton and perpetually - smiling male model Taylor Kinney (Zero Dark Thirty), whose inability to emote like normal humans sucks all the air out of the comedy whenever they appear on screen.

Because of this, Colossal is uniquely fascinating, this kaiju comedy secretly an emotionally crushing monster of a relationship melodrama that's as intimately human as it is cathartically humane.

Walsh is probably best known as one of the founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, and he's also appeared in supporting roles in tons of films (Elf, Bad Santa, Role Models, Mystery Team, Cyrus, every comedy Todd Phillips has ever done) and television shows (Childrens Hospital, Outsourced, Party Down, Human Giant, Reno 911!

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

Suicide Squad director David Ayer helms this fantasy / action / comedy that stars Will Smith as a human cop who gets a new partner: an Orc, played by Joel Edgerton.

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.

An absurd horror comedy, the film offers no dialog at all, just grunts, as humans — devolved into ape mentality — go about their poop - throwing, territory marking, television smashing daily existence.