The inevitable confrontation between good and evil is only a vehicle for continually
inventive sight gags and biting lines.
Not exact matches
It's formulaic sitcom material that works thanks to Hughes»
inventive situations, Dragoti's (The Man with One Red Shoe, Necessary Roughness) ability to merge the comedy with musical cues and
sight gags, and a very appealing cast of actors.
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.
The result is a more visually
inventive yet even more juvenile effort (hard to imagine), which once again allows the star comedian to cut completely loose with the material for some choice
sight gags and sporadically funny crude humor.