Sentences with phrase «into slapstick»

If you're not into slapstick comedy, you should probably go with another course.

It's a seedy world, but there's a cartoonish tinge, especially when it leans into slapstick, or, because it's a Shane Black film: knuckle - buster slapstick.

The movie leans into slapstick, but their sweet, understated bond is what lingers longest.

Dayton and Faris» understated, empathetic direction smartly plays against the zaniness of the screenplay; even when it veers into slapstick Weekend At Bernie's territory, the film never loses its grounding in reality.

He was a much needed comic relief without falling into the slapstick world of SNL.

While it may have looked hilarious on paper, the delivery is often bland throughout, finally imploding in the last few scenes where the entire cast is forced into slapstick shenanigans and obtusely - conceived farce.

In this wickedly funny version of Armageddon, a rogue General diagnoses his impotence as a Soviet plot and unleashes the a nuclear attack on Russia while diplomacy descends into a slapstick scuffle.

He adds comic relief, without delving too far into slapstick.

Not exact matches

As they watch Malvolio, the clowns perform a slapstick ballet, popping out regularly from behind the long black tapestries that stand in for scenery, cracking jokes, bickering, threatening, and bundling each other into hiding when they get hotheaded enough to become conspicuous.

The videos are slapstick mini-masterpieces for softball aficionados, with Butler and Woodward giving famed comedy duos through history a run for their money as a pair of buffoons — Butler the boisterous, over-the-top funny man; Woodward the perfectly droll, hyper - vocal straight man, filling in dead air with improvised lines — desperately trying to get into a bat to juice it up.

Cruise into a two goal lead, take the foot off the pedal, concede a sloppy goal, followed by an exhibition of sloppy slapstick defending before scoring a breakaway third in added time.

Oh, he has it already...» — the story tumbles into slick, slapstick farce as Tory «pitbull» Sir Norman Cavendish (Simon Shepherd) starts sniffing around the home (or is it the second home?)

He added, «Now what's wrong with that picture is that people's perception of the disabled, that kind of slapstick, people crashing into walls and things, that is keeping people from working.»

There is also a scene of an arrow being shot into someone and various other slapstick violence which is common in the film.

Yet before the visual slapstick locks into overdrive it's also pretty funny, and the romance takes a pleasingly unexpected direction.

Candid sex talks, an ultra weird neighbor (Jesse Plemons steals more than one scene as creepy policeman Gary Kingsbury), and a mischievous dog further add to the hilarity; they're all part of uncomfortable moments that escalate into deliriously over-the-top slapstick.

Though keeping worthwhile targets - like professors who want to see their most creative students fail - director Steve Pink lets his punk inspiration slide into standard school rivalries and unrelated slapstick.

The film tries to pack in a little bit too much in its running time, and there isn't a comedic moment until well into the film, a strange choice in a movie for kids, but The Wild Life has its moments of charm, hilarity, and slapstick that worked really well.

Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows into a big, strong, slapstick...

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

The film has a suitable mix of serious predicaments tied into the crude gags, brutal slapstick, the completely unexpected, hilariously coarse language, and (no longer) limits - pushing nudity (unfortunately mostly male).

Since the two leads have no shot at earning some laughs, Dey gracessly jams a bunch of painful slapstick schtick into the flick.

Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.'s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin's famously impassioned speech.

It's an unfunny anthropological variety show that takes some interesting ideas (mostly from Don Symons's seminal text The Evolution of Human Sexuality) and misunderstands them, lacking the strength of its convictions necessary to push the leering slapstick into satire.

Just when you think that Snowpiercer has settled into a Hollywood action movie rhythm, up pops some slapstick humour.

The TV version was canceled after four episodes (six would air), but strong reviews (and a lead actor Emmy nomination for Nielsen) kept the project alive until ZAZ adapted it into the The Naked Gun, which airs tomorrow night on TCM as part of their «Salute to Slapstick.»

What sets this apart from other coming - of - age dramas is that it never descends into the total slapstick chaos we have come to associate with the theme.

The primary flaw in Get Over It stems from the uninspired script that supplants genuine insight and wit for ridiculous slapstick and some of toilet humor so raunchy that I almost dry - heaved from moments that included Berke's almost landing face first into a steaming pile of horse manure only to have the same horse urinate all over his face, and late a disgusting scene involving vomiting in a party punchbowl only to have others drink the putrid concoction in bewilderment as to it's unique chunky texture.

While the story isn't particularly original, and the movie tends to drift over the top into broad slapstick, this comedy wins us over due to the camaraderie between the characters.

The Pink Panther, meanwhile, asks us not just to accept an actor besides Peter Sellers in the role of bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau, but to believe that star Steve Martin, whose career took a sharp left turn into New Yorker country about 15 years ago, can still work magic in the type of deranged slapstick romp that hasn't been central to his career since the early»90s.

Payne, who never met pathos he didn't feel inclined to puncture with slapstick humor, has somehow made his best drama and his worst comedy rolled into one.

I really enjoyed the fact the the comedy style started out as a fairly realistic approach, but on occasion it slipped into a more slapstick type comedy.

Why it's worth watching: Razor - sharp dialogue, witty one - liners, daft slapstick scenarios... there isn't a type of comedy that Life of Brian doesn't wrangle into its story.

How this is very much removed from Ron Jeremy being a porn star is beyond me: both play on this fantasy that women like Kunis are available to men like Segel and, therefore, to every schlub sitting in the dark chucking blunt elbows into each other's rib cages at every failed joke and rattle of humiliating slapstick.

Though elements of the Zhang style are readily evident — chiefly the ravishing cinematography (by frequent collaborator Zhao Xiaoding) and a color palette so rich you could eat it for dessert — the movie, entitled A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, is a less harmonious hybrid, one that shoehorns elements of broad farce and slapstick into the Coens» meticulous tale of lust, deception, and murder.

Director Paul King taps into silent movie slapstick to create a funny, charming, highly entertaining film.

It's just too bad that the slapstick here is completely uninspired, often falling into the cliché territories of characters hitting their heads or falling out of windows, or flashing their genitalia at German soldiers.

«I wanted to be able to retain an anarchic, slapstick thread but also allow the film to move into dark, tender, and difficult territory, and hold those two flavors in the same vessel.

Although the script isn't exactly top - notch, it is refreshing to see that it doesn't dissolve into a hideous slapstick mess as is often the case with recent comedy.

A typically colourful, good - natured and silly romp from director - producer - legend Tsui Hark, this historical - romantic - slapstick comedy takes a time - honoured romantic storyline and spins it into a lot of daft...

From its shrug of a title (diluted from its original Bastards), to its two years spent in release limbo, to the writing - directing team - up of Office Christmas Party's Justin Malen and The Hangover cinematographer Lawrence Sher, to a lumpy contrivance of a premise that packs every road - trip comedy cliché into a series of wacky dad vignettes, Father Figures feels very much like the overlooked middle son of a committee — one who's hoping you won't be fully sated on filial slapstick after Daddy's Home 2.

Unfortunately, once we get into the 9 to 5-esque plot (some might also be reminded of The First Wives Club, Chasing Papi, or John Tucker Must Die) of three women who plane to get a lot of slapstick - tinged revenge on the man who scorned them, nearly all of the sure - footed comedy goes out the door.

-- and they squandered it even worse: They turned it into a morass of Three Stooges - level slapstick and juvenile - style playground taunting.

What we get from the Farrellys is the same one - note characters forced into embarrassing slapstick for easy and cheesy laughs.

And although the later stages of the movie relax into somewhat more conventional slapstick, the Vegas scenes seem inspired by gore and slasher movies more than by comedy.Will this mixture work at the box office?

He's in the expert tonal management of scenes that begin nonchalantly before exploding into manic slapstick or violence.

Because she is paired with slapstick prone Segel, she is thrown into her own episodes as physical humor, but such jokes are forgotten about before the scene is even over (as with an episode involving a car door).

Rather than dealing with these issues like real human beings, the four jet off on a ludicrously extravagant vacation to Abu Dhabi, and the movie completely unravels into a pastiche of wish - fulfillment, slapstick, and ham - handed social commentary.

There are a couple of badly judged scenes near the end — in one, John takes a gun into an old folks home looking for Ella's high school sweetheart, a dreadfully flat bit of slapstick that also undercuts the valiant efforts of Mirren and Sutherland to sell us on the depth and sweetness of their long relationship.

It's unclear whether the film will follow this same tone, and some fans have expressed worry that the stories will be softened into a more comedic «man versus animal» slapstick style.