Sentences with phrase «jokes falling flat»

Maize might have a unique concept, some (scarce) funny moments and more gameplay than the average «walking sim,» but it fails miserably as a comedic narrative - driven experience, with a lot of jokes falling flat, and some of the dialogue being unbearable.

You might actually really crack up just looking at how adorable your little one is as she's trying so hard to contain her laughter when delivering the (not so punchy) punchline, that you forget how the knock - knock joke fell flat.

(Sheinkopf said the joke fell flat, in his opinion, but he did not feel offended).

Sheinkopf — who said he was at the church because he works for its pastor, the Rev. Johnnie Green, and his Mobilizing Preachers and Communities advocacy group — thought Cuomo's joke fell flat.

Normally Harriet Harman can be relied on to cheer things up with a final hurrah before the Red Flag sing - song, but even her jokes fell flat.

The humor is bad and cringey, every joke falls flat on its ass.

Critic Consensus: The Hot Chick's one - note concept gets stretched thin, and a lot of the jokes fall flat.

Strangers With Candy is funny, but at times the jokes fall flat and are boring.

Some jokes fall flat, a few scenarios seem uninspired, and Arnett's horse does seem strikingly similar to his hilarious man - child / magician Gob in Arrested Development, but this bizarre dreamscape where humans and anthropomorphic animals commingle and cohabitate is filled with promise, providing a fun, delightfully gonzo take on Hollyweird.

Some of the jokes fall flat, others are badly telegraphed and it weaves in and out of being a documentary and just a film to the point of distraction but it ' s hard for me to dislike the movie since I ' ve worked with people like this especially the director, Harry Penderecki... only not as likeable.

I was actually worried in the first five minutes of Sisters — every single joke fell flat, and I had the horrible feeling I'd wasted my money.

Almost all jokes fell flat — there was complete silence in the screening room for nearly the entire film.

Some of the jokes fall flat on their faces, much like Bridget Jones fell flat on her face into mud, which is when she first meets Mark.

There's one great scene (at a restaurant) but aside from that, the jokes fall flat and the story is muddled.

For the first fifteen minutes, though, many of those jokes fall flat.

But then nothing works: the constant plastic surgery jokes fall flat, the romance is painfully predictable, and the script is pathologically lazy, skipping over any scenes that might have made things more interesting.

Her jokes fall flat and her sarcastic moments make her feel immature.

First was there was the deafening thud when his seat - filler joke fell flat.

Jenkins helps pass the time as comic relief, but many of his jokes fall flat.

From daft gags like the dog poop walking itself to the toilets to seen - a-millions-times-before scenes like asking for a bigger penis the minute you realise you have powers, every attempt to save the movie with yet another joke falls flat.

Speaking of humor, I get that John Cena is the epitome of masculinity so on paper it might be funny to have him break down crying at specific points throughout the film but man oh man did that joke fall flat on its face in the film.

The jokes fall flat time and again.

While the film may touch upon important subjects such as body shaming, the jokes fall flat.

There are also plenty of times where jokes fall flat and never quite work, but that's just what you get with substandard writing for a formulaic comedy that's not meant to be anything more than week - old counter-programming to «Avengers: Age of Ultron.»

As Ben's unhappily married best friend, DeRay Davis feels like token minority casting and his jokes fall flat.

Its jokes fall flat, its stars have little chemistry, and Fuqua seems impatient to get to the next set piece rather than invest in his characters.

The skiing is repetitive, the jokes fall flat, the partying is a distraction, and Hot Dog... The Movie is an annoying waste of time.

If most of the jokes fall flat while too much of the runtime is given over to musical numbers starring Lisa Kudrow that go nowhere, when the barbs hit their target, they do so with a kind of timeliness that defeats Paramount's decision to shelve the thing for a couple of years before dumping it in theatres last summer without much fanfare to a chorus of pre-written pans.

Not one joke fell flat, and that script is just so tightly bound together, you almost wan na put a little bow on top.

Sure a few jokes fell flat, but overall it's a better / funnier film than the first one.

Some of the gags stall — the scenes of the movie within the movie are so uncomfortably, purposely bad that the joke falls flat early on — but most of this is very funny stuff.

Not only does every one of his jokes fall flat on its face with an audible thud, he seems to confuse comedy with screeching like a prepubescent child whose balls are still in his neck trying to match the screeches of a Dragon - ball Z character as they power up for 10 hours.

The dialogue is well - written, every conversation eliciting a smile, and the jokes are brilliant and rude, but like before there's also a number of times when the jokes fall flat on their face.

While some of the jokes fall flat and not all the characters are likable — the fast - talking merchant is not amusingly annoying, but simply annoying — there are far more hits than misses, and all the humor is handled with a sense of goodwill and cheeriness.

Not exact matches

But run your joke (s) but some friends beforehand to make sure they don't fall flat.

If you've made a joke and it's fallen flat, follow up by showing your serious side.

Not surprisingly, Trump joked earlier in the week that the Democratic debate would fall flat with television audiences while he promised to live - tweet what he predicted would be a «boring» event.

Also be game enough to laugh so the jokes don't fall flat.

That effort largely fell flat, though the crowd laughed at his other jokes.

But his big speech fell flat with some pundits after the foreign secretary eschewed details about exactly what he wants from Brexit in favour of passages about the liberal idealism of John Stuart Mill and jokes about dogging and Thai sex tourism.

Cuomo, invoking several stereotypes in his cringeworthy attempt at humor, fell flat with the Jews - can «t - dance joke, but that didn't stop the governor from adding to the thou shalt not list.

«If we do not receive an update it is probably because the battery is flat,» said Ulamec — or an asteroid fell on Philae, he joked.

Be the kind of funny that works for you, and if a joke or sarcastic comment ever falls flat, just own up to it and laugh it off.

Though mildly amusing at times, the jokes found in Coneheads fall flat and are unfunny.

There were several great actors, good visual, alot of action and yet no script??? The jokes all fell super flat, there was so much unneccasary battling (I suppose to cover up the lack of script writing) and it felt more like a daredevil remake with Matt Damon playing DD this time.

Sadly, Bedlam seems to think it is genuinely funny, rather than the actual joke, so some of the humour falls a bit flat in assuming that people want to play the game in the first place.

No matter how far «Deadpool 2» thinks it's pushing boundaries, it makes sure that even when a gag falls flat, the joke is always on you.

The movie consequently suffers from a lack of authenticity that is, to put it mildly, somewhat troublesome, with the pervasively smug atmosphere heightened by an emphasis on jokes and gags of an eye - rollingly desperate nature (eg an ongoing bit involving pro snowboarder Shaun White falls completely flat).

As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat... Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.

It feels like a slapdash collection of scenes rather than a balloon sent smoothly aloft, with jokes often falling as flat as Cena's buzz cut (a running gag centers on his tough - guy character's propensity for crying, a go - to bit that ages fast).