Sentences with phrase «laugh as some comic»

Not exact matches

Or the skulls in the Paths of the Dead, which pour out onto Aragorn, Legolas and Gimil.There are also instances that I think are more justified, such as Gimli as the comic relief dwarf (imagine watching 12 hours of film without a laugh.

But about this people concern themselves very little in our age which they think has reached the highest attainment, whereas in truth no age has so fallen victim to the comic as this has, and it is incomprehensible that this age has not already by a generatio aequivoca given birth to its hero, the demon who would remorselessly produce the dreadful spectacle of making the whole age laugh and making it forget that it was laughing at itself.

A comic opened the evening, drawing laughs but offering some racially and ethnically charged humor focused on Newark and interacting with African - American inhabitants and his «interracial marriage» (he described himself as Irish - American and his wife as Italian - American).

The laughs, as you can imagine, are few and far between — what with that death hanging over the comics, who come off as some of the unhappiest, bitter and jealous people ever.

There is more talking than sex, and that talk's comic content is often dry as dust, mostly without the easy laughs and obvious comic beats of, say, Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach or Agnès Jaoui.

Though some characters, particularly Considine's mulletted psychic guru, are set up as comic foils, for the most part we are laughing with Oliver, rather than at him.

If the Disney deal does go through, there may never be another R - rated comic book movie like this, so take it in, enjoy it, laugh, and make sure you stay until the end of the credits, as there are post credits scenes and an amazing song that is played at the very end.

Still, «Unfinished Business» isn't a laugh - free experience — Nick Frost steals every scene as a business underling with a kinky side — and some of the comic set pieces actually work.

However, with what's there, they do get good use out of the stars, with Harrison Ford (Ender's Game) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Sabotage) recurring throughout the movie just enough to keep their effort above a cameo, and Antonio Banderas gets some good laughs in a comic relief role as the fighter who is always passed over, but really wants to be back in the fold.

From The Secret Policeman's Ball to Teenage Cancer Trust, comedy and charity have long had a heart - warming, rib - tickling relationship, as comics around the world take to the stage to make people laugh and raise both money and awareness for good... Read More

It's tough to sympathize with a man as spectacularly rich and successful as Seinfeld, but the movie has an engaging rhythm, a few great laughs and offstage chats with Seinfeld and fellow comics Jay Leno, Garry Shandling and Chris Rock.

In analysing the dynamics of (mis) perception that allow sequences of images to be viewed as comic narratives — asking, in effect, just who or what we think we're laughing at — the articles assembled here hopefully shed some light on the contested ground where ethics and aesthetics meet.

Anderson puts his top - tier cast in comic situations and there are laughs, to be sure, just not quite enough to energize the material as a whole.

Comic filmmaker and Internet child Patrick O'Brien documents his journey with ALS, aimed to fly in the face of the degenerative disease as well as offer a few laughs in «TransFatty Lives.»

In fact, most of the laughs are of the nervous, comic relief variety, used to temper the heavy doses of sometimes bloody confrontations that occur with increasing frequency as the movie draws to its conclusion.

Kaling and Grandy have also worked hard to make this an ensemble show, with a democratic distribution of laugh lines through the entire cast, which includes comic Fortune Feimster as Ruby and veteran character actor Robert Costanzo.

There may have been laughs in the first two Thor movies, but they were much darker and more serious - minded than what director Taika Waititi and writers Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher L. Yost have cooked up in Thor: Ragnarok, essentially a flat - out comedy disguised as a superhero comic book... Read

In «The Actors», Caine gets the chance not only to play a struggling and slightly bitter thespian, but also to display his not - inconsiderable comic talent (having made us chortle heartily in both «Goldmember» and «Dirty Rotten Scoundrels», it hardly comes as a surprise that he knows how to produce a laugh or three).

Wildly entertaining as they are, the incidental bursts of sibling bonding (Starship, laughing gas) feel somewhat obligatory considering the leads» reputations as broad comics, though «shoehorned» is a word that never comes to mind.

Director Robert Luketic isn't nearly as ambitious as Alexander Payne, who used Witherspoon to such dazzling comic effect in her best film, Election; whereas Payne mined her perkiness for subtly sinister satire, Luketic simply uses it for the easy lightweight laugh.

And Stan impresses as a portrait of beta - male monstrousness; there's a complicated nasty «nice guy» character, a meek abuser, that might have interestingly been expanded upon here among the film's he - said, she - said comic abuse sequences in which Harding and Gillooly beat up on one another for broad laughs to the sound of 1970s pop music needledrops.

While Deadpool might appear to be yet another comic book movie in the series of seemingly endless comic book origin stories, this movie truly stands alone as unique and laugh out loud funny.

Its efforts to make us laugh, using the autistic brother for comic relief and a very mild variation on Downey's Tony Stark shtick, are mostly fruitless as well.

«I started crying and laughing and screaming,» says the 34 - year - old Gerwig, who, until now, has been mainly known as an actor, often in comic roles.

However, Ghostbusters plays more for laughs than scare, and Fright Night isn't really funny as it is comical, generating most of its amusement from the comic relief provided through the tensest of moments than in anything that would be funny on its own.

McHale's comic timing is excellent and the pilot has some notable laughs, especially in scenes with the great Stephen Fry as his boss.

It's hard comic concept to sell, hard to boil down into normal animated film length and just as difficult to deliver laughs through.

Comic genius Jim Carrey stars with Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman in the funniest, most outrageously entertaining comedy hit of the year that critics are applauding as «a laugh a minute» (Jim Ferguson, FOX - TV).

A literature festival filled with authors, workshops, and round table discussions; comic book guests, publishers, and retailers; a film festival, featuring underground films as well as the drive - in classic, Night of the Living Dead; entertainment that includes ice sculpting with power tools, dance, songs, and laughs.

Not many comics have as much experience and confidence as Oswalt, but not laughing is still not laughing.

There are a few laughs, but in the absence of a sustained comic tone and consistently good ideas, the script relies on endless bathroom humor and such throwaway visual ideas as a baby stored in a high school locker.

But by that point, the film has earned its laughs by making the audience care about characters who begin the film as broad comic types, but end it as sympathetic, fully formed, multidimensional human beings.

Thrown into the mix are Stellan Skarsgard and Kat Dennings to add the comic relief, although Thor himself wins several laughs, as a Norse God trying to adapt to the 21st century culture.

The latter overwhelm the movie to such an extent that much of the material comes across as unintentionally comic (One scene that is played for laughs involves Cross and Kane arguing which of them will use the severed thumb of the first victim to open a safe, which is just strange after seeing how disgusted the characters are over the torture of the woman).

There are some laughs in Dean, particularly whenever its lead character's (and yes, I will keep referring to Dean as some variation on «Dean's lead character» in case the distinction between the film's title and the character it refers to isn't made entirely clear through italicization alone) often - morbid comic drawings show up on screen.

While she and Byrne generate «Spy's» greatest laughs as they tangle, it is the inspired comic union she has with muscled action star Statham that is an outright gas.

In fact, my overwhelming urge on finishing The Dead Fathers Club was to apologize to Philip for laughing at his predicament, but it is impossible not to as Haig has a keen eye for the blackly comic.

There was something irresistibly comic about the sight of these two old men retreating as if pulled by invisible strings, but she knew that she must not laugh.

Actually now I'm kind of laughing a bit at myself as I'm writing this because in retrospect I've seen worse things depicted in the Silent Hill franchise over the years but here this one little panel (no I am not posting it you will have to see it when you read the comic) is totally grossing me out!