Sentences with phrase «knockabout comedy»

Director Alfredo De Villa doesn't play it for the kind of knockabout comedy so often seen in these films (like the shrill hit «Four Christmases»).

In lesser hands, this could have turned into a sub-Father Ted - style knockabout comedy with a dark undertone.

It's a thin premise that cues much cheery knockabout comedy, with ample scope for impressively whooshy 3D tracking shots.

Not exact matches

Far more clever and witty than the knockabout silliness promised by the coming attractions, this is a film that is more interested in character comedy than slapstick and gives Melissa McCarthy the most appealing role of her career and allows Jason Statham to deliver one of the most unexpectedly hilarious comedic turns in recent memory.

Like the trailers promised, «The Lego Batman Movie» is a dazzling, knockabout, joke - a-second comedy set in the DC Comics universe that's so overstuffed with gags that catching them all in one viewing is impossible.

But there's something amiss at the heart of this movie: Mavis, for all her knockabout manias, is intended to be a sympathetic soul, and the film itself is essentially framed as a comedy.

They make zombie movies for every mood, ranging from knockabout gore comedy to low - key art cinema.

The actor, who is currently in Prestige Acting Mode for Sacha Gervasi's making - of - Psycho drama Hitchcock, is apparently happy to kick back and play a scheming baddie named Edward Bailey in the knockabout action comedy follow - up.

Most of the time the movie is a knockabout slapstick comedy with a «Back to the Future» feeling, staging grand action sequences and feeding audiences new plot information every few minutes, but of course, being a Pixar film, «Coco» is also building toward emotionally overwhelming moments, so stealthily that you may be surprised to find yourself wiping away a tear even though the studio has been using the sneak - attack playbook for decades.