Sentences with phrase «into sight gags»

In part due to the tone Waititi helped cast over the proceedings and the script which leans heavier into sight gags and tete - a-tat quips and barbs, much of the responsibility lays on the delivery of the actors who all perform.

Not exact matches

At one moment, it will toss up sight gags and quippy one - liners before weaving into a hardcore zombie thriller.

After establishing the high stakes and bleak future of our world, the movie quickly shifts gears into a more comic mode, with the process of downsizing providing an opportunity for materialistic wish fulfillment, an ironic realization that matters of class still exist even in this idealized world, and more than a few sight gags involving the juxtaposition of the normal - sized world with the small one.

After more reiteration of things we've already seen, the action picks up, and the movie turns into a visceral assault of bright colors and sight - gags and bright flashes of light and monkeys falling from the sky.

As is the case with so many of Payne's films, the comedy here is mostly observational, with gentle sight gags and inventive camera work and stagecraft drawing viewers almost immediately into an alternate but entirely believable world.

And the star obviously put some energy into a handful of bits that are either go - for - broke (an amusing sight gag that plants Emily Mortimer's crotch in Martin's face) or, surprisingly, witty.

There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the sight gag with the sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.

One might expect an artist to begin by emulating the old masters and then progress into more innovative work, yet Kovacs followed the opposite trajectory: his influential spoofing of TV (which seems so old hat now) gradually gave way to a dazzling talent for classically constructed sight gags (which, parodoxically, seem totally fresh).

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.

There's an out - of - nowhere stabbing to rival Psycho's, but also sublime sight gags like a corpse stashed in a retractable sofa bed and a birthday cake that gets squished before it can be entered into police evidence.

The sequence is actually broken into chunks across a 15 - minute section of the movie; what makes it work is not just the sight gags (Bene isn't exactly action - star material), but the credibility that Coopersmith brings to his character's ridiculous determination to wreak vengeance.

Then it shifts right back into irreverent humor and sight gags, as if we're not even supposed to take any of the seriousness seriously.

His maladroit direction turns a few elementary sight gags into mysteries that the viewer is expected to solve, and does no favors to the apathetically choreographed dance numbers.

The chaos mostly comes from Brad's inability to do even the most basic things without turning them into over-the-top sight gags.

Later he would describe the misery he saw — dogs crowded into cages, trampling each other to try to reach him as he neared, animals who have gone cage crazy, spinning endlessly, others who were gravely ill or severly maimed, some appearing to be near death, all with filthy matted coats covered with urine and feces that filled their cages, and the overpowering stench that made him gag — the sights, sounds, and smells of torture and suffering.