Sentences with phrase «jokey movie»

was a jokey movie about terrorism.

Though for those looking for a more bland entry in the rancid man - child genre and one that has of all things, Tyson singing a Phil Collins song, this might be their kind of unsophisticated and easy - to - take jokey movie.

Not exact matches

«Some movies can be so jokey that you don't really care about the nemesis and the plot just thins out.

Greg comes off as simply incompetent as he flatly fumbles through a scene from «Waiting for Godot,» one of the movie's first jokey meta - moments.

The central notion of discovering one's unique personal identity («the only thing that matters is what you choose to be now») takes us back to an earlier China and it's free of jokey references to other movies.

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog (5 *, No Cert, IFI, 75 mins) is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some, but I loved it.

In Johnson's most regretted elision, Tom Hardy has a jokey, typically unintelligible cameo as a Storm Trooper, but before that happens Finn, Rose, and BB - 8 make their way through «the Star Wars version of Jack Lemmon's office in The Apartment movie.»

«Grudge Match» never settles on the movie it wants to be, wavering uncertainly between a jokey old - guys comedy and something more dramatic and heartfelt.

The movie's characters are occasionally flippant within the strict confines of the material, but the movie is rarely jokey about itself.

If the characters are all hand - me - downs from The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy, the jokey decor and background detail seem like third - generation Xeroxes from Li'l Abner (both movie versions as well as the comic strip) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (the movie) decked out with southern California's architecture and exterior night lighting.

With Peter Berg (who also subtly parodied the jungle adventure movie (THE RUNDOWN) and superhero movie (HANCOCK) the jokey tone wouldn't surprise me.

Atrocities are followed by jokey riffs and sight gags, and what links them is not a creative sensibility (as would be the case in a Quentin Tarantino movie) but a carnival barker's desperate need to hold on to a distracted audience's attention.»

There are a few amusing moments in «North,» mainly involving jokey references to other movies, but they are overshadowed by a dubious plot turn involving a full - scale revolt of America's children inspired by North's antics.

We still learn a fair amount about the movie, but the jokey tone becomes a negative.

The Hype: Okay, jokey - ness aside, I wasn't a fan of Carruth's first film Primer, but I get why it gets so much praise: It's uncannily intelligent, original, and one of the few time - travel movies that seems to make more sense the more times you watch it.

In some ways, the jokey, cheesy tone feels like a predecessor to adventure movies of the 2000s, especially The Mummy and its sequels.