Sentences with phrase «humor than comedy»

Not exact matches

It's the lying and deception that can destroy trust in these situations more than almost anything else, and the second episode even makes it a point to try and get that across through slapstick humor, until it ditches that initial argument altogether and starts becoming a wacky comedy in full with all of the usual trappings.

With its title tongue - in - cheekily evoking «I, Claudius,» another epic tale of madness and debauchery, the dramatic comedy «I, Tonya» revisits — with verve, intelligence, scathing humor and more than a touch of sadness — the bizarre 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by goons associated with the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya Harding.

What's more egregious than Movie 43's predictable gross - out vein of comedy is its own self - awareness of the puerile nature of such humor and that it still relishes its nastiness, seemingly in defense.

A buddy - comedy wrapped in a British Columbia road trip, Suck It Up figures out how to find the humor in emotionally distressing situations that might elude any less determined characters than the film's two protagonists.

He has been more widely praised for his work in the latter category than the former, and «The Campaign» reflects a certain political seriousness under all the crass humor and comedy of ignorance.

The tone is light, although Ferriola often tosses in a bit more potty humor than should be called for in such a romantic comedy.

Although there was more to their comedy than just drugs, the movie would become legendary, making them synonymous with pot humor from then on.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

What made these films stand out was that the humor was more important than the sport, the sport itself merely used as a springboard for great comedy.

By balancing its party - minded ethic with a climactic test (albeit a crammed - for one), Road Trip winds up being a touch more college - comprehensive than the average kegger - comedy, but humor connoisseurs will note its flatness, room temperature, and empty calories.

First, it means some great films that are also comedies may appear lower on the list than they would if we were weighing technical execution of those non-comic elements equally with humor present.

More than Sandler's past comedies, Grown Ups 2 is enamored with bathroom and sex humor.

Bachelorette is mean - spirited, and its humor derives from pain, which makes it unique and harder - edged than most comedies of this kind.

Even this light comedy takes more interesting turns than most of Elvis» films, but overall suffers from a foot - dragging pace and cornball humor.

From the 1970s thru the 1990s, there was no hipper, no more outrageous comedy in print than The National Lampoon, the groundbreaking humor magazine that pushed the limits of taste and acceptability — and then pushed them even harder.

Where Keegan - Michael Key mostly seems comfortable remaining in the goofy comedy / light drama world, Peele is aiming to become a razor sharp satirist who's unafraid to delve into social ills with sharper teeth than sketch humor allows.

Take away the racy humor and male point of view and She's Out of My League is not that much different than an average romantic comedy.

Comedy is an integral part of cinema, but Bad Grandpa fails both for being rarely funny and for its sense of humor being worse than anything it's attempting to send up.

In Carl Matheson «s early aughties piece on the humour of TVs The Simpsons, he talks about something he calls hyper - irony: «The flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on a sense of world - weary cleverer - than - thou - ness.»

But it's much more fizzy and action - packed than its successor, rife with slapstick comedy and some very broad, uncomfortable racial humor centered on the exchange - student character of Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe).

The humor is offbeat and witty, providing more laughs than most theatrical comedies of late.

The humor can also be overly silly at times, more befitting a cartoon than a subtle independent comedy with melancholy beats, and the action elements toward the end, including car chases and destruction, feel like they belong in a spoof of 1980s blockbusters more so than in a poignant story about two misunderstood and withdrawn characters finding ways to come together.

When someone wants to see a Chris Rock comedy, one wants to see him R - rated unleashed — not so much in terms of profanity than his intelligently biting adult humor.

Phantom Thread is more restrained than that (Day - Lewis's brand of humor is far subtler than Adam Sandler's, at least when he's not playing Bill the Butcher or Daniel Plainview), but it is still a deeply perceptive comedy about the nature of romantic relationships and the awkwardness of their appearance to outside admirers.

But, as evidenced in Scream 3, Kruger isn't much of a comedy writer, and the failed attempts at humor end up taking viewers out of the increasingly complicated story rather than making it more enjoyable.

The humor is of a higher caliber than that found in most so - called comedies.

Yes, Friends with Kids does come with more than enough gags to keep you laughing almost the entire way through, but what makes it stand out amongst all the comedies out there is while it's funny, the humor never undermines the situation.

The film's core is all heart, but surrounding the dramatic moments is a pure sense of humor that generated more genuine laughter than any comedy I've seen in recent years.

It's notorious for sinking to new lows in the gross - out humor department, but even in that regard, it isn't particularly different than some of the dumb comedies which were churned out in the mid-80s like Porky's, Losin» It and One Crazy Summer.

Rather than painting as heroes or villains, all have humor and a grounding in reality that is usually just reserved for comedies.

It's also been a year for a mild rejuvenation of comedies, whether they avoid farce and focus on the human elements for humor or, in a few cases, incisively satirize a genre while still paying respect (Only two of them are on my list proper, so I've isolated the others apart from the honorable mentions — not to say they're better than those below them but to give them their due).

A good modern - day litmus test may be the comedy of Larry David, «Curb Your Enthusiasm» more than «Seinfeld», although a distinctly Jewish New York sense of humor runs through all three, with Allen and David having repeatedly crossed paths, most extensively in 2009's enjoyable Whatever Works.

-- Jeffu Warmouth, Three Heads are Better Than One — Humor and the Abject Presents: Mainstream Comedy Featuring Lorelei Ramirez, Amy Zimmer, and Ruby McCollister Hosted by Sean J Patrick Carney — Eugenia Pigassiou, Body of Work in Regress — Becca Kauffman — Jaimie Warren

The women in this category are different than the woman who simply hopes to get her man to dress a little better or hopes he'll learn to appreciate the subtle humor that is found in a romantic comedy.