Sentences with phrase «laughing at the characters»

This one captured my interest, completely held my attention, and often had me laughing at the characters» delightful turn of phrase.

As he did in «Citizen Ruth,» director Payne doesn't allow you to smugly laugh at his characters; he's going to make you walk a mile in their perfectly polished penny loafers first.

The comedy is achieved not because we are laughing AT the characters, but rather because we love them and can empathise with them.

So I guess I'm no longer naive enough to just laugh at characters saying fuck at me.

Even though you're laughing at his character's expense, and there is comedy there, it was a marvelous performance from him.

But we're not laughing at the characters who all prove to have something more going on under the surface.

It's just amazing how Solondz seems to care and to laugh at his characters at the same time.

But it revels in its dumbness, to the point where it actually can be somewhat clever in the many ways its creators, Bobby & Peter Farrelly, come up with to draw out laughs at their characters» expense.

This isn't a humiliation comedy, or at least not one in which we're invited to laugh at the characters as they're being humiliated merely because they're hapless saps who don't deserve abuse yet who are nevertheless subjected to it for our ostensible amusement.

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I have to laugh at all the loons who think a Northern European folklore character named Santa was anything but white.

At first, Phyllis primarily appeared as one of the shows background role players, but as her character — and her deep - seated rivalry with Angela — developed, so did the laughs.

Sometimes I'm awkward in real life, and in real life at least I can have more than 140 characters to explain myself, and use facial expressions, or loudly nervous - laugh my way out of it.

At this stage, your baby will start to develop a real sense of character; they will start to smile and they may even be able to laugh.

There have been times I have slammed books closed in frustration, cried my eyes out with what feels like genuine grief at the demise of a main character and times I have laughed so hard it hurts.

Squeezing something about the parenting experience into 140 characters and making people laugh at the sa...

If there's one character from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation that everyone laughs the most at it's «Cousin Eddie» played by crazy actor Randy Quaid.

It's impossible not to laugh as the Gingerbread Man, two of his little baked legs cruelly broken off at the knee, scowls like a hard - boiled gangster at Farquaad, who's captured him in the hopes of gleaning information about the renegade storybook characters.

We still laugh at him when he screws up, but that we cheer for an unrepentantly homophobic and almost misogynistic character is a bit unnerving.

Sanders adopts some odd style of characters laughing at moments, when they aren't that funny.

Only in the last half - hour do the usual Emmerich absurdities pile up: I laughed outright at the character who, past 65 and diagnosed with a massive brain tumor that will kill him within months, can not be stopped by a ferocious beating, being stabbed in the neck with a sharp implement, then being crushed against a wall by an SUV moving at a minimum of 30 mph.

Movies like these work because viewers can find some part of themselves in the characters and can laugh with / at them and ultimately at themselves.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

Beginning in the mockumentary style of a Christopher Guest movie, «I, Tonya» introduces its motley crew of lower - class characters with a series of interviews that invites us to laugh at them right out of the gate.

The only reason my rating is so high is the fact that I never expected it to be as good as it was, It come as quite a surprise how funny it was, Ice Cube basically plays the same character that made his role in the Jump Street films so good, It's nothing new but it's full of cheap laughs from start to finish and the fight at the end was pretty entertaining, Yes it's predictable but it's allot of fun.

The characters don't have much depth, the plots twists are at times laughable (no, I really did laugh out loud on several occasions) and, in season 1, you could see some plot developments coming from a mile away.

Season 1 of Kimmy Schmidt does indeed have its laugh out loud moments, however at times Kimmy herself becomes too much like a late - season 30 Rock character.

This gives the viewer a decidedly unfair advantage over the characters: we can understand what they can not and are invited to laugh at their mutual incomprehension.

Each character has an arc that takes him from responsible to outrageously reckless, and we can't help laughing at every turn of each one's next hi - jinx.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

In a similar fashion, the Canadian side characters played by Will Sasso, Tyler Labine, and Hayes MacArthur provide some genuine laughs from their hyperactive and at times incomprehensible cartoon Mounties.

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.

«Jonathan has packed The Pre-Nup with tons of laughs, romance, and characters that are at once so maddening and lovable you can't help but be hooked,» said Jamie Carmichael of Content Media Corporation.

I laughed at so many scenes simply because this character felt so authentic and I loved how he portrayed the character.

What you would not expect is that this movie would go so completely OFF THE RAILS in its third act that you'd be laughing out loud at its obvious and not - so - obvious twists and wink - wink - we - all - know - this - is - cray - cray banter between characters.

You kind of want to laugh at how immature these characters are at age 40, and wonder if the writers had sat through one too many teen romance flicks.

It assaults us with an awkward mix of humor (which is rarely funny) and heart (which is never touching), but even more amateurishly, it features copious cutaways to characters laughing at each others» jokes.

The film is bolstered by her knack for dialogue and character, but also in not pressing too hard in order to get laughs that aren't there, letting smaller conversations play out naturally, and having supporting characters mirror the main story in a fashion which draws out interesting tidbits without stopping the overall momentum of the character's journey at large.

For her part, Ronan laughs at the idea she got through the whole shoot without questioning why her character had the name Lady Bird (but click on the video above for our conversation and you will see Gerwig explain it).

Long's character doesn't want to die in Canada, which is sure to get tons of laughs at the TIFF premiere in Toronto.

Lars is a character that could so easily be laughed at and ridiculed but it's testament to writer Nancy Oliver, director Craig Gillespie, the supporting cast of Mortimer, Schnieder and Clarkson, and particularly Gosling's lead in bringing the character — and his social trauma — so vividly to life.

Once again, Cougar Town delivers the laughs, the drama and the character development that this show always seems to excel at.

Of course, we'd watch it anyway, and laugh at the chewed scenery and Bonnie Bedelia's character serving gazpacho.

While the bits are way over the top, you can't help but laugh at this unique super-hero-like character.

I remember watching Little Big Man in school and everyone laughed at Little Horse, the obviously gay character but for me it was almost a form of representation.

The film can't quite make up its mind about Franco's Holy Fool character, either; we're meant to laugh at his naïveté and his malapropisms at one moment, then we find out he's a resident in a group home so we can admire his can - do attitude, and later it's revealed that he has made valuable and intelligent contributions to the sales report even though he never indicates in conversation that he understands anything about the deal.

What we were laughing at, initially, was the character's own preposterousness.

In the 70s, the «day in the life of...» occupation movies were more the norm as far as comedies went, with an ensemble cast of colorful characters, and not much plot other than to watch them all interact and laugh at the results.

It starts with a concept that's right out of an issue of either Cracked or Mad, with parodies of characters from several different films teaming up with each other for an adventure, but at every turn, it attempts (and fails) to score its laughs via gross - out gags, slapstick, or just the uttering of obscenities... though, of course, it never gets so obscene that they lose their PG - 13 rating.

Then it just becomes disturbing and nonsensical; the humor is lost amidst the piling up of bodies and the physical and psychological torture the characters are forced to endure (the only laugh garnered from here on out is a perfectly timed question mark at the very end).

Cage's character persuasively argues he is only resorting to crime in order to protect his family, leaving the audience rooting for the crooks and laughing at the police who lack the resources to catch Memphis in the act.