Sentences with phrase «joke character who»

Not exact matches

In today's high court appeal judgement, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Griffith Williams said: «If the person or persons who receive or read it, brush it aside as a silly joke, or a joke in bad taste, or empty bombastic or ridiculous banter, then it would be a contradiction in terms to describe it as a message of a menacing character.»

Sharing the rationale behind his gesture, Mustapha Inusah said that, «I have worked with and for, managed, and done PR works for celebrities across West Africa — I can say with confidence that, two actors, Kwaku Manu and Bismark the Joke, are a rare breed of characters who appreciate the works of journalists and how we have contributed to their success stories.

Hello everyone I'm jenny 35 years old single mother who like to joke, laugh and to enjoy the simple things in life and I'm a person who look beyond what maybe the obvious character is worth more than flashiness.

All in all, though, we don't fall in love with any of these characters, we don't root for the film's one «couple» (who we think all along will unrealistically be granted a predictable Hollywood ending), we can't remember the jokes after the fact and, most important, we aren't consistently entertained.

If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are characters who feel like subjects who can care rather than just targets for cynical jokes).

The barbershop is filled with characters who share their stories, jokes, trials and tribulations.

The character, his dialogue, quips and in - jokes are as funny and bloody - bad - taste as before, creating goodwill and feeling of warmth for a character who is anything but.

They're competitive to a degree that almost annoys their friends (One of the film's unspoken jokes is that a character who's prevalent in the prologue isn't in the rest of the film, since, apparently, the couple's competitive streak finally got to him).

Of the reams of on - set trivia concerning Rebel, one of the more amusing tidbits involves Dean's quickie in - joke impression of cartoon character Mr. Magoo — whose voice was, of course, supplied by Jim Backus, who played Jimmy's father.

It is helpful that there are two sets of villains here: the high school element played for jokes, but then there are more serious bad guys, who can actually scare us into thinking that one of the characters could get killed off.

All of the above takes place in «The Belko Experiment», from characters played by John Gallagher, Jr. («10 Cloverfield Lane»), John C. McGinley (who was in the 1999 cult comedy classic «Office Space», making this the best inside joke of the movie year so far), «Scandal» «s Tony Goldwyn, and Melonie Diaz.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The fact that the plot is, effectively, window dressing for joke runs and life lessons doesn't help alleviate the sense that its two halves are or maybe can not successfully be sealed with blood; even at his most dreamlike or sincere, Leitch has too much work to overcome with a character who takes nothing seriously, and he fails to navigate that razor's edge to balance — or amplify — both extremes.

No more than ten minutes later there was a scene lasting five whole minutes (it felt like hours) wherein the walking fat joke of a character (who nevertheless becomes a full - fledged lifeguard because he has «determination») gets his erect penis and testicles stuck in between the panels of a wooden beach chair and a hot female lifeguard and Dwayne Johnson proceed to try and coach him through the situation while a beach worth of spectators look on and take video with their phones.

More crucially, Sherlock's astringent personality and Watson's poignant longing for respect never really gel alongside simple, one - joke characters like Mankini (Julio Bonet), a butt - wiggling gnome who wears a Borat - style one - piece swimsuit.

A few years back, when «Night of the Living Dead» - redolent zombie movies started popping up like, well, zombies, there was a joke among movie mavens who were past masters of the genre, to the effect of «Haven't the characters in these zombie movies ever seen any... zombie movies?

Kevin Kline's job is to be the butt of the jokes, that stuck - up boss to Clouseau who takes so much grief and pain, yet the audience never pity the character.

After all, who better to call out Deadpool's dodgy jokes than a strong female character who can give as good as she gets?

Zac Efron tries to make use of his new - found comedy style, but Dirty Grandpa is no Bad Neighbours, lumbering him with the straight character who only gets to show off his joke - telling abilities on choice occasions.

The rest of this cinematic stocking is overly stuffed with stock characters who are just there to deliver jokes and punchlines and keep this 100 - minute distraction - from - reality chugging along.

As someone who has never seen an episode of the program, I can't appreciate the in - jokes but I can appreciate the witty script and the strong characters that keep this story afloat for non-fans of the program.

Refn knows exactly what he's doing — he's in on the joke — and he revels in the sensory pleasures of film as an art form (the score by Cliff Martinez, who also did Drive, is practically a character here).

Rabbit's the biggest victim of this: he's still the film's «rookie,» but he's a gormless innocent who, despite his visible middle age, gets a sexy subplot with French - Canadian ingenue Genevieve Aubois (Emmanuelle Chriqui), whose character mostly exists as eye candy and a half - hearted conduit for more jokes about French accents.

(There's also a great in - joke here for fans who recollect the production name given to the title character in Jaws.)

There's the early morning DJ (Brown, The Final Curtain) that no one even knows exists until months on the boat (you would think the DJ who relieves him would know, but no matter, it would ruin the joke), and there's the one - joke character, sexy Midnight Mark (Wisdom, 300) who remains sexy because he looks good and says nothing (an irony given that radio is where looks don't matter and the gift of gab reigns supreme).

In this day and age, the joke is really on the perpetrator of such a notion for sheer ignorance, but in the peculiar world that Identity Thief inhabits, being called Sandy as a male apparently requires snide retorts by nearly every character who hears the name.

So, what that mostly leaves are the jokes, the majority of which could use some serious punching - up from a screenwriter who's a lot less inclined toward delivering the most obvious gags in any given situation; if, in a movie, you've ever seen the wrong person get zapped with a taser, a poisonous snake biting someone's naughty bits, or a rich, out - of - touch character humorously failing to relate to the working class, well, you've probably seen it executed better than it is here.

Every single butt of a joke here is his own worst enemy who has brought it down on himself, and to see such characters getting a bit of a smack is fun, when done right.

It's a good punch line, but it makes these characters, who deserve a bit more for all they've gone through, the butt of the joke.

Just as the plot in noir inevitably climaxes as all of the deceptions pile up, The Man Who Wasn't There mounts to an anticlimax — the final irony — where a sort of fatalistic joke on the main character finally brings about order, even if it is a bit distorted.

In this this teaser video, Bruce Greenwood who plays Batman / Bruce Wayne talks to reporters about his take on bringing this iconic character to life and jokes with me about video taping him during the talk.

ADDICTED TO FRESNO includes a slew of characters who would be ruthlessly mocked in other comedies but here they are respected and (mostly) in on the joke.

THE BAD: some horribly trite jokes liberally lifted from The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and other older and oft - used sources, film - flubs galore (the girl who falls into bed under the covers, several darts hitting a car when only one flew out the window, the monster's position changing while on the table, etc.), the Inspector Kemp (Mars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Frau Blucher (Leachman, The Last Picture Show) characters, and Madeleine Kahn's (High Anxiety, History of the World Part I) singing.

Characters joke about a boy who was killed in a motorcycle accident.

There are walrus jokes, characters of questionable gender, a large Hawaiian who like to refer to Sandler as «peanut butter cups», Spam references, a man who can't remember things longer than 10 seconds, and Rob Schneider thrown in the mix to take the gags to lows — just in case the teenage boy crowd might zone out at watching the weepy, smoochy scenes.

Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion of her) because she wants to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one of its few major female characters (Speaking of sexism, can we talk about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is of the «male rear» variety, directly implying that there's something different — worse, more offensive — about the same of the female kind?).

Caiappe and Scherfig pack the film with fun side characters and pseudo showbiz insider jokes, like when they go out to the past - his - prime actor Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy, always the scene stealer) for the «corpse role» of the drunken father who's described as being a «shipwreck of a man» who is in his 60s but «looks older.»

Even grosser is the running joke about male characters looking up the skirt of Debbie's assistant Desi (Megan Fox), who doesn't wear any underwear!

Even those who aren't amused by the penguins in the movies, where their dynamic alone was the joke, should enjoy this show which goes beyond that premise with diverting character and story material.

More often than not, talking animal characters are merely sidekicks or comedic relief, and while Rocket certainly veers into one of those categories, over the course of his three MCU appearances, the raccoon (who is not known by that clarifier) has proven himself to be so much more than a silly talking animal who builds bombs and cracks jokes.

The virtues essentially stop with the shot design and the work of Edward Norton (himself being a sort of walking meta joke, as his character arrives on scene and immediately begins armchair directing and taking control, something for which Norton himself has been infamous on set), and while the other actors are fine, they do not manage to separate themselves as anything other than puppets for Inarritu's agenda, who looms over every frame like some petulant child with a grudge and a budget that allowed him to force his opinions on an unwitting public.

That's because unlike the aforementioned characters, who are firmly planted in reality, Thor comes from a different world altogether, and quite frankly, a movie version of the hammer - wielding hero seemed like a joke just waiting to happen.

Along with Nigel, there are three other notable new characters are introduced, all of them initially appealing, but too little is done with Foxy Cleopatra, while Goldmember is a two - joke villain (he speaks with a funny Dutch accent in addition to the obvious) which isn't really funny after the first scene we see him in, and a one - joke character in No. 3, who is a mole (spy) who literally has a giant mole on his face.

It almost doesn't matter who plays Deadpool: the character is little more than a delivery device for an endless stream of empty posturing disguised as jokes.

For example, in one story the main character is a teenage boy who, joking around with his friends, misses his coach giving the time he is supposed to get on the bus the next day for the big game.

As we furthered our deal, Ricky made everything clear and as easy - as - can - be along with his co-worker Arnie Price, who was another great help - not to mention «character» as he also had a great personality with lots of enthusiasm and many jokes.

Doreen Green a.k.a. Squirrel Girl was originally created as a one - joke character - a hero with a ridiculous set of powers who can somehow defeat the most powerful foes in the Marvel universe.

It mixes in farming know - how and technical skills with jokes, a character who has to grow up in some way, and characters that are somewhat crazy but also have their own goals as well.

Talking cockroach butlers, a Russian colonel who takes orders from his digestive tract, and a villain called the Belgian Prankster, who wants to either destroy the world or tell the worst joke in history, are just a few of the blatantly weird characters that veer the story into the ludicrous at nearly every turn.

I'm not sure who the mononominal «Kaito» is — jusr that he's done some smutty comics in the past — but he's a really interesting artist in terms of how he distorts perspective around his characters to achieve emotional effects (rather than necessarily dropping everything into chibi mode for jokes, say).