Sentences with phrase «into slapstick comedy»

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

A tense confrontation in a pub bathroom between Gary and a hoodie - clad youth explodes suddenly into surrealist slapstick, and The World's End turns on a dime from a soused comedy of manners into a science - fiction spectacle that ambitiously splits the difference between John Wyndham and John Carpenter.

The Zellner brothers combined alternate between slapstick comedy and poignant drama to send the genre into a new, more modern sunset.