Sentences with phrase «humor in films like»

More importantly, his overacted and self - effacing performance suggests an understanding that his films are now viewed largely through a lens of irony, by audiences who find unintended humor in films like Timecop and Double Impact.

Not exact matches

Baker's combination of acute emotional intelligence and raucous, often bawdy humor sometimes brings to mind Fatih Akin, a German filmmaker of Turkish descent who also likes to set his films (Head - On, The Edge of Heaven, Soul Kitchen) in tough urban areas where conflicting cultural value systems meet and clash.

Through a celebration of culture and comedy, this film uproots the widely held misconception that Arabs have no sense of humor - when in fact they laugh, and are, just like us.

In color, style and humor — even in its graphics and editing — it's very much like a Godard film from the mid-1960In color, style and humor — even in its graphics and editing — it's very much like a Godard film from the mid-1960in its graphics and editing — it's very much like a Godard film from the mid-1960s.

The film chronicles the manner in which Hope and her family handle the nightmarish situation, often with what Saget described as «irreverence and dark humor» (At one point, Hope's brother Alan — a comedy writer — quips that scleroderma sounds like «a deli entrée»).

You could almost imagine the two films, or at least their heroes, figuring in the kind of good - natured, racial - stereotype humor that used to be a staple of stand - up comedy (and was memorably parodied on «The Simpsons»): «white guys abolish slavery like this» (pass constitutional amendment); «but black guys, they abolish slavery like this» (blow up plantation).

Both Thor and Thor: The Dark World presented us with something drastically different than what was before it, including expanding beyond the cosmos and accepting the God - like characters as normal, which really pushed the medium of comic book films, while also blending humor and action in a way that made the character both interesting and viable.

Though it's mildly raunchy in the Apatow style (he co-produced), The Five - Year Engagement, like most of the films Segel's co-written, also allows its female characters to be recognizable human beings with senses of humor and personality traits other than niceness.

Framed with documentary film — like interviews with the key players in what remains the most infamous story to come out of Olympic figure skating, his Tonya Harding script straddles a tricky tone of pitch - black humor, affecting pathos, and winking self - awareness.

Stewart approaches the work as he approaches his own career, refusing to define it as any one thing — humor is woven throughout, with much of the film looking like news footage we've seen and ignored every day of our lives as it blares out in monotone on international news programs like CNN.

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy fun action films like The Mummy franchise starring Brendan Fraser, but the humor in those movies felt more natural and organic.

«The Angry Birds Movie» is a fun film if you like anthropomorphic animation, bathroom humor (Mighty Eagle has the biggest bladder in bird movie history), endless verbal and visual puns, and explosions.

It's probably hard for you to grasp the humor and the meaning of it from films like this with predominantly black casts in them.

Jason Schwartzman is ridiculously funny in Bob Byington «s 7 Chinese Brothers, a film created in the Wild West indie landscape that panders to no one (mainstream audiences will likely balk at the quaint, offbeat humor), but will please crackpot - comedy weirdos (like yours truly) to no end.

Needless to say, I like Burt in this film, although I don't see it as any different than the Bandit, especially in his sense of humor and get - even strategy with anyone in authority that tries to bend his will.

Featuring a memorable ensemble cast of both British and American actors, the film centers on a group of reckless criminals that inadvertently become involved in a labyrinth - like plot full of two - timing back stabbers set to the tone of Ritchie's trademark comic violence and tongue in cheek humor.

The film bathes in this sort of humor throughout, and much like «Lock, Stock,» part of the winning comedy of Ritchie's vision is that most of the slaughter takes place just left of the cameras.

Regardless though, the film should still be commended for building on the humor first seen in Thor, adding brains to the Thunder God's brawn through hilarious scenes like the Chris Evans cameo and that London Underground scene.

No one likes being manipulated, and while The Cabin In The Woods rushes along on a wave of humor and giddy mayhem, it also repeatedly points out how similar films are manipulating them by asking them to buy into the same weak execution ritual over and over and over.

Overall, the film, which was produced by Tim & Eric themselves along with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Dave Kneebone, is a true celebration of an off - brand style of niche cult humor that so many viewers still look for in shows like The Eric Andre Show, Check It Out!

Far less noxious — and much more crossover - friendly — than most of their peers, writer - directors Jay and Mark Duplass had established a comfy little niche in the Amerindie landscape, imbuing films like The Puffy Chair (2005) and Baghead (2008) with a shaggy - dog humor that's an antidote to all that SXSW - sponsored mopiness.

«In fact, one of the most critical aspects is managing tone, and this film in particular, when egos like this clash between these superheroes there's bound to be humoIn fact, one of the most critical aspects is managing tone, and this film in particular, when egos like this clash between these superheroes there's bound to be humoin particular, when egos like this clash between these superheroes there's bound to be humor.

In case it isn't obvious yet, the film is filled with plenty of physical humor and sight gags that have an almost cartoon - like logic to them (A character's nose gets stuck in some closing doors, leaving her hanging above the ground — and flattening the noseIn case it isn't obvious yet, the film is filled with plenty of physical humor and sight gags that have an almost cartoon - like logic to them (A character's nose gets stuck in some closing doors, leaving her hanging above the ground — and flattening the nosein some closing doors, leaving her hanging above the ground — and flattening the nose).

I liked this film, I usually like films that Seth Rogen is in, I enjoy his style of humor.

It doesn't matter that nearly all Ben's moments in the film are all strictly by the book, in a strain of gangster humor going back at least to George Raft's insouciant line about his lawyers, «all Harvard men,» in Some Like It Hot.

Needing more than a lion trainer to tame down the one - liners of edgy comedians like Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen, the humor in this film is an odd clash of adult and kid quips.

Existing in a timeless not - quite - reality that tips its hat to»80s classics like «Stand By Me» and «The Goonies» while blending it with an up - to - the - minute sense of humor that betrays Vogt - Roberts» links with the current comedy scene (big - name stand - ups like Kumail Nanjiani and Hannibal Burress have cameos), it's certainly the funniest film we've seen in 2013 so far, minute by minute.

Bourne's superhuman - like ability to shake off almost any injury, blow or crash is utterly ridiculous, although it proves to be a key source of sly humor in the films and for the character's undeniable coolness.

And the heck of it is that it feels like the filmmakers were trying too hard to appease adults as well, sliding sly but pretty crude humor into the film that just does nt really belong in the opening moments of the film, when Rodney is being built, there is a part leftover, the mother asks about it, the father checks to make sure they wanted a boy, then he tells his new son it will only hurt for a second and then theres a scream.

Stowe looks like she has never acted in a film (oh yeah, that's because she's never acted well in a film); Shalhoub is left to play the background friend (a few quips for humor and he'd be this film's Denis Miller of 1997 - 98); Gary Sinise reminds us that he really needs to fire his agent, the only thing worse than an Oscar nominee making a film like Reindeer Games would be an Oscar winner making a film like Snow Dogs.

Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be, sometimes playing like a wacky farce, sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest, sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched buddy road - trip comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.

This highly entertaining return of one of the cinema's most enduring giant beasts moves like crazy — the film feels more like 90 minutes than two hours — and achieves an ideal balance between wild action, throwaway humor, genre refreshment and, perhaps most impressively, a nonchalant awareness of its own modest importance in the bigger scheme of things.

There are moments of genuine humor in the film, but Finney virtually sucks the oxygen out of the story, and even tempered pros like Gambon and Fricke can do

In a way, U-Turn feels like two different films — the small - town satire and the thriller — but what unites them is Ridley and Stone's pitch - black sense of humor.

Like the humor, the pace is gentle, but the film as a whole is well - divided between present - day antics, an extended (and somewhat wondrous) time travel sequence, and then the bulk of the action in colonial times, with a dextrous action scene that resolves the differences between the turkeys and their would - be human overlords.

It's more of a drama that has elements of ironic humor and thriller elements that feel like they come from the works of Dostoyevsky (indeed, «Crime and Punishment» gets a nod in the course of the film).

He is a master of his characters and their fates, as well as that in putting together all of the breadth and scope of the Star Wars universe, but the sometimes wooden, trite dialogue gives his films a tinge of unintentional humor that almost makes us guilty for liking them so much.

Humor is prevalent, in the cops» banter and unprofessional antics, in the behavior of loopy suspects (like those played by frequent guest stars Nick Swardson and Toby Huss), in the contrast between the bizarre occurrences and the routine manner with which they're filmed and presented.

The film does give us very clever and often stinging dialogue that, like humor in life, is both funny and true.

The humor in the film starts strong with a great deal of visual sight gags such as swastika - shaped moon bases and Hindenburg - like spaceships — each of these should make even the harshest critic smile.

The trailer plays a lot like how I expect the film to, in that its playful insanity and black humor are its major strengths.

His humor is a defense mechanism, and in this film he lowers it just enough to get to know — and to like — the guy inside the red - and - black suit.

Of course, toilet and tasteless humor in general is expected from a film like Joe Dirt, but Spade, co-writer Fred Wolf, and director Dennie Gordon take it to a greater, more needless extreme.

I think that humor is very important in a film like this, Michael Moore is an expert at it.