Sentences with phrase «jokes than a comedy»

Fey is really quite wonderful in the film, which despite the trailer is more of a drama with some clever jokes than a comedy, per se.

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With more than 35 million visitors in 2006 and 75,000 new users registering each day, AFF ranks among the 100 most popular sites in the U.S.A.. It's become so mainstream that a joke about it appeared in the Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore romantic comedy, Because I Said So.

Nothing gives you an better indicator that a date is going well than the sound of laughter but if your jokes are not that good, you had better visit a comedy club to ensure that there is something to smile about at the end of the evening.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

«Just Go with It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enjoy.

The Hangover DVD is what we expect out of every male - audience - focused broad comedy: there's some mild nudity, more raunchy jokes than even most 12 - year - olds will be able to stomach, some partially offensive ethnic stereotypes, the women aren't so much as mistreated as nonexistent, and there's Mike Tyson.

«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam Anderson ruined, and more than invited her to that movie, it's a damn roll.

That glimmer of recognition is what makes Groundhog Day a particularly witty and resonant comedy, even when its jokes are more apt to prompt gentle giggles than rolling in the aisles.

It's nice to see Arnett playing something other than an emotionally stunted man - child, and if the pilot for Up All Night didn't make me guffaw all that much, it passed by pleasantly and it was good to see that creator Emily Spivey was able to wring comedy from the new - parent situation without using the same dozen baby jokes we've all seen 200 times before.

«The Intervention,» it must be said, is also just a really entertaining drama — a feel - good movie that doesn't try so desperately to be a feel - good movie, partly because DuVall relies more on situational comedy than straight up jokes.

Anyway, the entire purpose of Zoolander 2 — and any comedy sequel made more than 10 years after the original, and comedy sequels in general — is to facilitate the repetition of jokes from the original film among fans who prefer to communicate their thoughts and feelings in movie - quote form, so reference away, referencers.

Unlike most dumb comedies, Apatow has great affection for his characters, and we like them because he enjoys showcasing them, taking great care in developing them as more than just joke fodder.

It's classified as a comedy for the purposes of the Golden Globes, but there are fewer jokes than there were in The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie this evokes enough to categorize as a spiritual sequel or companion piece.

The comedy here works more often than not and he doesn't linger on any one joke too long for you to hardly notice the bad ones.

Sure, it's a comedy on the surface but at the same time Feig is determined to play the spy angle as straight as possible, as if Spy were simply a spy movie with jokes rather than a satire on the genre.

Now, if you've read any of my previous reviews about raunchy comedies, you would know that I'm not always a fan of these things since many of them rely solely on the vulgarity rather than actually making jokes.

The Buzz: As with every other Murphy comedy released since... oh... 1985, the jokes are broad and offensive more often than actually funny — but Murphy's nothing if not an old pro, and you can count on his delivery being good for at least a handful of chuckles.

Not that you'd really want it any other way, as you know you're going to get more jokes per minute than nearly any other comedy out there, and one of the funnier deadpan comedic actors in Leslie Nielsen (Nuts, Soul Man).

The film's opening sequence is perhaps the funniest stoner - related prank in the history of movies, but it takes a lot more than just one joke to develop a solid comedy.

The film is a good half hour longer than its prequel, meaning there's more opportunities for jokes even if a good hour of the film isn't particularly funny, but having an hour of your comedy not work is never a good thing.

A few scenes here and there do feel a bit longer than necessary, and the movie does constantly come back to various jokes about George Michael and other things to the point where it's beating a dead horse, but chances are you will still be laughing, and that's of the utmost importance for a comedy.

Those eruptions, more often than not, don't enlarge the jokes or provide a scarier, more comprehensive take on the human comedy.

When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of it as more than a joke.

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.»

I have seen far too many comedies lately, ahem Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, where the jokes go on for too long and the movie is thirty minutes longer than it needs to because they are too impressed with their writing and don't know how to edit.

It's a throwback to old screwball comedies where anything could happen without having to make sense, and it relies on that zaniness to drive laughs rather than pairing it with rapid - fire jokes like an Airplane!

While the film contains some jokes, it's not much for comedy; the casting of the likes of Chris O'Dowd (Cuban Fury) and Dylan Moran (Good Vibrations) reads as more of a distraction than an attraction, particularly given O'Dowd's dead eyed approach to the material and Moran trying to engage with a register that doesn't suit him in the slightest.

You understand the routine of the comedy, how each scene sets up the jokes and it comes across as strangely scripted and calculated, rather than a non-stop rollercoaster of laughs.

Rather than hitting the audience with a set - up, a punchline and then bail immediately, the comedy seems to live within the jokes and follows a situation through; not just cutting away after the big laugh - filled reveal.

I had a great time with this flick because it was so much better, and actually full of jokes, than most mainstream comedies I've seen at all this year so far.

Some of the jokes are just plain unsettling (there's a running joke about «child molesterers» — not a typo — that comes across as more unpleasant than amusing), but for every awkward and squirmy wisecrack there's a comedy goldmine (the cameo by Waititi as a local preacher is one of the funniest scenes in years).

Beyond that, however, the new Baywatch can't decide how best to adapt this old - school guilty pleasure, so it chucks a bunch of f - bombs, dick jokes, and gross out gags, creating a crude comedy that's more often repulsive than fun.

The best I managed were a couple of smirks, mostly based on situational comedy rather than actual attempts at jokes - but the young couple of 16/17 were laughing their asses off at every fart joke - line, so I guess we know which audience is really captured by the film.

This makes plot and character development more important than in comedies whose sole purpose is to string together over-the-top jokes.

The Square (Google Play, YouTube, iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video) Another foreign - festival favorite gaining accolades stateside, this Palme d'Or — winning comedy contains a decidedly larger number of used - condom jokes than any fellow nominee.

Ultimately, I'm scoring Arthur fairly low compared to other critics, as the one - joke nature of it, and some all - too obvious contrivances, does make it seem like a more ordinary comedy than many critics give it credit for.

A more focused comedy might have treated the opening contrast as an inspired jumping - off point rather than a general theme — and crafted more jokes that linger, rather than dissipating as soon as they land.

One could argue the tonal disconnect between an act of terrorism and comedy, and yet the injection of some quips and the odd running joke about a producer obsessed with balls turns out to be one of the film's greatest weapons, moreso than the overly familiar stench of disdain and dissidence as a poorly planned hostage stunt yields a much more complex discussion about class structure and the corruption of the American financial system.

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The running joke, then, is that I have an unhealthy obsession with Night Trap, and so anything other than a comedy review that ends by saying it's the greatest game ever made would seem oddly out of character for this site.

Created by artist Gordon Young and designer Andy Altman of Why Not Associates, the 2,200 m2 work in front of Blackpool Tower typographically displays jokes, songs and catchphrases from throughout the ages by more than 1,000 comedians and comedy writers.

However, after winning a Steve Martin look - alike contest (no joke) he found that he was more interested in, and better at, standup comedy than engineering.

Our tendency to avoid thinking too hard about jokes is understandable — after all, there seems to be nothing less funny than analyzing comedy.