Sentences with phrase «lame jokes work»

But for some strange reason, they are so earnest in this film that these otherwise lame jokes work here.

Not exact matches

(Of course, it works just as well with Baptists, Lutherans or virtually any group — organizational resistance to change being universal — so on that score the joke is lame.)

Ha, can you tell from my lame jokes I just got home from work — hungry for some oats?!

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.

It hardly makes up for the stupidity on display in the rest of the film, however, because «Vacation» goes for the cheap and easy joke every time, and although some work well, most of them are so lame that it'll make you wish the franchise stayed dead after «Vegas Vacation.»

I'm always up for a good Rob Liefeld - can «t - draw - feet joke or a God - Shatterstar - was - lame joke, and director David Leitch and writers Rhett Reese, Paul Wenick, and Ryan Reynolds make most of the gags work even for those of you who weren't shelling out your cold hard cash for panels of footless superheroes doing battle whilst wearing pouch - laden belts.

Shredder is yet another horror / comedy hybrid, something that very rarely works - primarily because such films invariably contain the lamest jokes one could possibly imagine.

While I was working on this book, I used to make a rather lame little joke whenever I started talking about the subject matter.