Sentences with phrase «in ridiculous plot»

For the record, I spent approximately 15 hours of this game swimming in ridiculous plot twists, evil villains twisting their metaphorical mustaches and ridiculous one - liners explaining how Shulk and his friends will overcome all obstacles using friendship and love and other ridiculous notions.

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The notion of a bureau - inspired plot is in some ways less ridiculous than the «crisis actors» theory — Hogg's dad really was in the FBI, and for all we know, he really does hate Trump — but on another level, it's even crazier.

The plot is sturdy and well - paced, albeit pedestrian in its analysis and tending slightly toward the ridiculous.

«The commission has information that the desperate cabal could take their gambit to the ridiculous extent of purchasing properties and registering them in the name of Ibrahim Magu to make the plot believable.

The central plot has great drive and pace, and some drama, but all the ridiculous subplots get in the way.

It is still the ridiculous fun that I loved in The Parasol Protectorate, but the plot was nonexistent the first half of the book.

Point of No Return is violent, loud, profane, angry, nasty and, in terms of its plot, often quite ridiculous.

Charachters are ridiculous, plot is unbelievable (in a bad way), and even the Kodak - moments isn't working as well as it used to back in 1998.

Annoying new characters, ridiculous plot scenarios and some startlingly bad acting are quickly turning this show in to one of the worst of

Game Night «s ridiculous plot is followed fully through, with Max and Annie going as far as firing guns and running over bad guys in attempt to finish the game.

Annoying new characters, ridiculous plot scenarios and some startlingly bad acting are quickly turning this show in to one of the worst of the year.

From the ridiculous title, with those two M's gummily stuck together in the middle, to the uniformly atrocious performances, from the incomprehensible plot to the sluggish pacing, The Phantom Menace is an unsalvageable disaster.

A greatest - hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as «Gorillas in the Mist» and «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,» making it something of a trained chimp, one that apes a lot of good movies while making itself look ridiculous.

That's a ridiculous excuse to get the leads in drag, but to be fair, it's no more ridiculous than any other plot in the Big Momma series.

I have no idea but it's a gaping plot - hole that is only used to explain Milla Jovovich's character's later intentions as well as set in motion the ridiculous action - packed finale.

Once the central plot — Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in increasingly ridiculous, but entertaining, fashion — it hits it stride with aplomb.

As with other Bruckheimer endeavors, a bunch of lame - ass 20 - something male actors fill up the supporting cast in an effort for the female audience members to argue over who's the cutest to keep their minds occupied from the ridiculous plot and poor character development.

The script is bad, the plot is ridiculous, the drama is flat and even the big - budget action sequences that take us snowboarding on vertiginous slopes, rock climbing up steep granite faces and big wave riding in the middle of the ocean fail to quicken the heart beat.

Just like on the original show, the Narrator steps in to make fun of all the obvious plot devices, ridiculous coincidences, and silly exposition.

Worse, he handles the the movie's ridiculous coincidences and plot devices with a grim attitude — an indifference toward a child in peril, for example — thereby drowning out the movie's potential fun.

For a movie striving to offer legitimate social commentary, a lot of the discussion in regard to mandatory minimum sentences gets muddled amid the ridiculous nature of the plot.

A scene featuring a deranged Anna Faris playing herself got most of the attention, but it's cross-cut with an even funnier moment: Keegan - Michael Key sitting in his minivan with some hardcore killers, trying — successfully, as it turns out — to convince them that George Michael is truly «O.G.» It's the sort of sublimely ridiculous moment that makes you wish these guys hadn't needed to expend their brainpower on coming up with a story for Keanu, which suffers when it tries to further its own silly plot but glimmers when it just lets its stars get silly.

Compound that with a fairly ridiculous plot and a final shot that somehow leaves the impression that an adequate ending was never quite able to be conveyed, and Simon's film turns from a sure crowd - pleaser to one that can irk if you aren't in the mindset to accept it as just a piece of fluff entertainment and nothing more.

They gamely stumble through, crippled by a ridiculous plot about a suburban couple trying to re-ignite their relationship with a night out on the town; meanwhile it's the film that goes up in flames.

Well - conceived characters and great heart keep things afloat when even the most ridiculous plotting seems in danger of sinking things and Holland's wonderful performance keeps everything grounded.

There are huge holes in the plot which are explained away by ridiculous technical gobbledygook, although some of this is done in a knowing, tongue - in - cheek way which at least makes it funny.

In his new role, it's up to Birdman to find a way to remove the President from office before everyone starts to worry it's more than the ridiculous plot to an animated show.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

In that light, this movie does deserve some credit for a few things: discovering a slightly clever twist on the usual home - invasion plot, providing a heroine whose techniques never stretch believability and only occasionally make us question her reasoning, and coming to an end just before the constant turning of the tables would start to seem too ridiculous.

But two games in, it's just gotten irksome, especially as this game halfheartedly makes some overtures toward the origin of this whole zombie mess before taking a hard left turn into a completely ridiculous, unearned plot twist, and then just... ending.

But it is trashy, ridiculous, and juvenile in its plotting.

In fact, Oldman's role and his erratic performance in it, is almost as ridiculous as the memory transplant ploIn fact, Oldman's role and his erratic performance in it, is almost as ridiculous as the memory transplant ploin it, is almost as ridiculous as the memory transplant plot.

Released in certain territories around the world in 2015, Dominion: The Last Star Warrior is a rough, raw and ridiculous sci - fi experience that at its core harbors an interesting idea but in inception delivers a tiresome and dialogue heavy offering that is anchored down by bargain bin worthy delivery and a convoluted plot that is far too high reaching for director Richard Lowry's 80 minute feature.

This movie is ridden with plot holes, it has an unacceptable amount of logic issues, Mystique's costume is distractingly fake and silly looking, Anna Paquin gets a title card yet is in five seconds of the movie, multiple story beats are repeated and the narrative puts into question everything that's happened in previous «X-Men» films, but, if you can get past the fact that the «Days of Future Past» narrative is downright ridiculous, you can still enjoy some of the mindless, summer fun — and Quicksilver's sequences, because that's high quality cinema right there.

Once you find out just what's going on, you'll probably laugh at all of the absurd ways Rowan Joffe (The American, 28 Weeks Later), who is not very faithfully adapting the novel by S.J. Watson, has to contort the plot in order to get us all the way to the ridiculous climax that is supposed to be exciting and revelatory, when all of the while it is quite depressing and only raises more questions than answers.

In his new role, Birdman must find a way to remove the President from office before everyone starts to worry it's more than the ridiculous plot to an animated show.

Despite its screenplay by veteran Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Runaway) and his wife Anne - Marie Martin, and an exec producer in Steven Spielberg (Gremlins 2, Back to the Future Part III), the characterizations are amazingly simple, the camaraderie forced, and the plot is too ridiculous to take at face value.

Instead, it's a romantic comedy where the two love interests just so happen to be real - life action heroes, and while the scenes between Pine and Hardy in the field are a lot of fun, the main plot involving Reese Witherspoon dating both men at the same time is beyond ridiculous.

Tossed in for flavouring is tough NYPD detective Sandra Cassidy (Jennifer Esposito, in a different movie until the last ten minutes), and Platt, briefly chewing scenery in ridiculous Harry Potter glasses while gamely enduring a couple of major plot twists so unconvincing you can sense him wishing for a magic wand with which to spirit himself into something better.

The plotting is ridiculous and often nonsensical, but in a way that seems deliberate and is definitely charming.

The story is completely ridiculous and wafer - thin: in his first of many oaters, Flynn is a morally grey buffalo herdsman who eventually stops turning a blind eye to Bruce Cabot's evil doings in Dodge, yet the film has so many show - stopping sequences, the plot becomes unimportant.

A ridiculous plot revolves around stolen voice recognition software that would allow a user to pinpoint someone else's location over the phone, anywhere in the world.

The plot is a little too heavy on torture, rape and murder in general for some tastes, but one can't help liking Alex Cross, despite the fact that there is this ridiculous ongoing dichotomy between Patterson's depiction of Cross as the ultimate family man and the fact that book after book he puts his family in mortal danger.

«Completely ridiculous, in the most sublime sense of the word... But it's not all gags, as [Cannon] wrings tremendous tension, action, and intrigue out of his many - stranded plot, and the dozen - strong constellation of major characters each have deep emotional stakes on the line.»

The past was button mashing, sex in the form of ridiculous QTEs, and a paper - thin plot with paper - thin characters all about the spectacle.

Instead, it is mainly a tongue - and - cheek retrospective making fun of all the ridiculous plots and stories Sonic has had the pleasure of participating in.

Even more impressive is how the plot actually makes you care about these characters; unlike the intro / outro clipshows most fighting games have to offer, MKX's story bothers to include things like character development and heartfelt moments in between all the ridiculous action.

(but of course this is Kingdom Hearts so evil bad guys and ridiculous plot twists ensue) Talking about the positives first, despite the fact that DDD takes place in dreams Square didn't try to be pull another 358/2 days and have all the environment be hand me downs.

Instead, Soul Calibur V's story mode forces you to play through mostly as Patroklos and Pyrrha as they arbitrarily face particular foes as the plot demands it — including a ridiculous scenario that sees four of the game's Asian characters just happening to be traveling in Europe.

The ridiculous nature on the whole of the plot of Snake Eater, the introduction of stands in Stardust, the appearance of iconic characters in each series (Jotaro, Naked Snake / Big Boss, Old Joseph, Eva, DIO post-Phantom Blood,) the list literally just goes on.