Sentences with phrase «humor fell flat»

But so much of the humor fell flat that I wouldn't have trusted the same filmmakers to embrace that approach, either.

It's hard not to feel sorry for the drugged - up elephant at the heart of the story, which is probably why a great deal of the humor falls flat on its face.

Scenes often go on too long, the film's tone varies wildly and most of the humor falls flat.

Practically all of the attempts at humor fall flat, particularly Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster, who adds nothing.

A majority of the humor falls flat.

Aside from a few decent sight gags and a clever bit where Mitch battles a fleeing henchman hiding in a little girl's bedroom, leading the combatants to attack each other with the dainty décor at hand, the dated humor falls flat.

The few attempts at humor fall flat on their face, and the squad banter is utterly lifeless.

Not exact matches

Will sarcasm in humor resonate or fall flat?

Why does our humor so often fall flat?

Or perhaps god has a sick sense of humor — he wanted Ricky to run knowing that he would fall flat on his face.

The tepid publicity campaign to pass off the heavyweight champion as a Good Humor man in disguise has fallen as flat as Floyd Patterson.

I always try to write with humor but that often falls flat when it's about what people just don't want to imagine!

Cuomo, invoking several stereotypes in his cringeworthy attempt at humor, fell flat with the Jews - can «t - dance joke, but that didn't stop the governor from adding to the thou shalt not list.

A friend or relative can tell you if your attempt at humor rings true or falls flat or if you are coming across positive and approachable or not.

The humor is bad and cringey, every joke falls flat on its ass.

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

It's an obvious take for a Hollywood comedy, but the team behind Game Night utilizes the ensemble cast to the best of its abilities and never allows the twists or the humor to fall flat.

Kevin Smith doesn't ever really commit to whether he thinks everything is a joke or not and gets mixed up with some French Canadian humor that falls flat on its face but it's the sharp juxtaposition between the botched attempts at humor and the barbaric visual horror onscreen that makes Smith's body transmogrification so fucking fucked up.

As far as the style and sense of humor goes, it does still feel unique among the rest of the pack of franchises out here, even if it can't achieve the level of success in either of those departments that the first film did, particularly in the case of the comedy as a lot of the jokes in this one fall very flat.

Speaking of humor, I get that John Cena is the epitome of masculinity so on paper it might be funny to have him break down crying at specific points throughout the film but man oh man did that joke fall flat on its face in the film.

It's Howard's more workmanlike, less antic sensibility that infuses «Solo» and, in many cases, drags it down, with the few remaining traces of quippy, flippant humor either falling flat or sounding hopelessly derivative.

It does take a while for me to get into the film, Emmet is a little bit annoying in the start, and some of the humor does fall flat but overall it was definitely a really fun time at the theaters.

The sprinkles of humor fall completely flat.

Lacking the authenticity of the first film and missing the quick humor of the second film, Pitch Perfect 3, directed by Trish Sie, struggles to find its narrative footing and falls flat comedically, ending as by far the weakest film in the trilogy.

Weak attempts at humor provide a few chuckles but overall this screenplay falls flat and is predictable at almost every turn.

The humor often falls flat when it isn't entirely offensive or grating.

In the middle, it sometimes falls flat, with humor that is too dry.

It is when they try to draw humor from the way these people dote over their dogs that the humor seems forced and falls flat.

Fans of Freaks and Geeks and Silicon Valley will already be aware of Martin Starr's talents as a comedic actor and here he is perfectly cast, wringing every last drop of humor from scenes which might have fallen flat in a lesser actor's hands.

Seth Meyers» opening monologue joke about Harvey Weinstein's absence fell a little flat at first, but then he made is so much better (or so much worse, depending on how morbid you like your humor) by reminding everyone that he'd be back in 20 years as the only person to ever be booed during the In Memoriam section.

Unfortunately, without some kind of pre-planned tone and winning sense of humor, a movie like Epic is bound to fall flat.

It's a kitschy sort of trailer with plastic farm animals and humor that almost falls flat.

In a lesser game, the constant narration and attempts at humor would eventually fall flat.

While the game's bizarre sense of humor often falls flat, Not A Hero's brutally addictive game play and well - thought up challenges certainly make up for it.

With clumsy physics akin to Octodad and subtle humor reminiscent of The Stanley Parable, Human: Fall Flat is a fun brain teaser...

The dialogue never instigates a laugh with most of the humor falling completely flat.

While some of the jokes fall flat and not all the characters are likable — the fast - talking merchant is not amusingly annoying, but simply annoying — there are far more hits than misses, and all the humor is handled with a sense of goodwill and cheeriness.

And thankfully, the humor does not fall flat, and I found a few unexpected laugh out loud moments.

A lot of the humor fell pretty flat too, particularly Insomniac's weird habit of making fun of stereotypical nerd stuff.

The majority of the works in New Image Painting require a sense of humor to get past an initial hit of awkwardness, but when subjects are more clearly painted, such as in Henry Taylor's Where Are my Brothers Keepers (2008) or Sean Landers» Around the World Alone (Boy Skipper — Dawn)(2011), the jokes tend to fall flat.

One tip: «Attempts at humor usually fall flat.»

And be careful of humor, it may sound good in your head but could potentially fall flat.