Sentences with phrase «life as the cartoon»

Strauss is obscure, but Trump's cartoonish Machiavellianism is comparable to that of another character who started life as a cartoon.

Not exact matches

The cartoonist said in a note that originally appeared with the cartoon that by using his children «as political props» in a video ad that ran during an episode of Saturday Night Live, the senator had made them «fair game» for editorial criticism.

In a full and creative life, Dorough might be most famous (at least among people of a certain age) as the creator of the cartoon musical TV show known as Schoolhouse Rock!

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has a double life - as a cartoon character.

«Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as «Mr. Magoo,» a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling... Trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with Sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal.

Oh, I can see how the image represents them OTHERS (bad guys of all sort, proselytizing, self - promoting, — just follow one of your threads down the line & see how we work to convince, convict: us the living dead) But I have to make an effort to identify with your bad guys in all your cartoons — even as I know that's where the significance of your «vision» lies.

But at the same time, this cartoon seems to imply that at some point after I've «lived» enough the tides change and it's totally ok to label each other as sinners.

As I complete my seminary studies this semester, often I have found your reflections and cartoons speak an incredible amount of truth and address «real life» ~ ~ incredibly honest and useful compared to some theoretical musings.

The Struggle: This collection of cartoons illustrates the opposition LGBTQ people face as they attempt to be authentic and to experience equality in their lives.

You are stuck in it — still impaled and imprisioned in what strikes me (this is meant to be as offensive as your cartoons) a trailer - trash version of the religious experience: you, a zombie Pied Piper piping out the living dead.

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True to Snapchat's goal of putting a playful spin on everyday life, it's now possible to create animated 3D cartoon avatars (known as Bitmoji) within Snapchat.

In her cartoons, Kirby makes light of all kinds of parenting situations, from Frozen - inspired early wakeup calls, to something she describes as «The Shitty Guilt Fairy,» a mythical creature that hangs around just to make you feel terrible at all your parenting decisions (it's like she knows my life!).

But to hail this transformation as unprecedented is to do our mustachioed ancestors a disservice — an act of wanton disrespect made only more unseemly when one considers that they were born and lived and went to their graves without ever once waking up on a birthday morning, scraping the ice off their laptops, and receiving salutations from a distant land in the form of an abysmal, not - quite - functioning cartoon of chickens — one year it was elephants — either attempting, or pretending, to dance.

Things feel more like a cartoon than a live action film, Freddy is about as scary as a mime, and the lack of tension that dominated the last film is back with a vengeance.

im kidding i am a 6ft 1 in tall white male, who enjoys the small things in life, video games, anime, and cartoons is about all it takes to make me comfortable and happy, but id like to share these hobbies among a million others with someone who will possibly become very dear to me, Aswell as...

The ogre Shrek (Mike Myers) lives alone, quite happily, in his own private swamp, until his solitude is shattered by a noisy, restless troupe of fairy - tale and nursery - rhyme characters who've been forced from their homes by the nasty Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow), who, with his Prince Valiant haircut and long, squared - off jaw, resembles nothing so much as a cartoon - world version of Laurence Olivier's Richard III.

And it doesn't hurt to have Robert De Niro, Rene Russo and Jason Alexander camping it up as cartoon villains come to life.

Longtime friends in real life as well as creative collaborators, Tim Chantarangsu, Pedro Flores, and Rick Carter bring their unique comic chemistry to the cartoon screen in this popular animated series from Maker Studios.

Summary: Highly entertaining documentary about the life of eccentric underground artist Robert Crumb, who created famous cartoon characters such as «Fritz the Cat» and the «Keep on Truckin» Man».

,» the film opens as a traditional animated cartoon but pulls back to reveal «toons» living and acting alongside humans in 1947 Hollywood.

Seeing as how «G.I. Joe: Retaliation» is a live - action cartoon, I wish we could have seen thought balloons above the heads of Channing Tatum, Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson and Bruce Willis, among others, as they filmed this ridiculous and overblown debacle.

These were the years that bred Norris» Missing in Action and Delta Force franchises, as well as the short - lived Saturday morning cartoon series «Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos.»

As with many cartoon to live action remakes, all the names sound silly.

Not only does the uneven Tomorrowland ultimately disappoint as a Bird film, its failure carries potential disappointment for Disney fans hoping the company might find a reason to produce more in - house movies beyond live - action recreations of their classic cartoons.

Plunged into a coma, Stu is dropped into a Freudian stew of elaborate set - design and partially - successful live - action integration called Downtown, helpless as Monkeybone takes over his flesh body, bangs his angelic gal Julie (Bridget Fonda), and parlays Stu's modest cartoon into a marketing monolith bent on pushing nightmare - inducing toys (ushering Monkeybone into the poorly - attended «Club Halloween III»).

It's pure Hollywood hokum, with the Vikings reduced to pagan cartoon barbarians who make sport of terrorizing women and take pride in the torture and murder — the fact that Janet Leigh's character lives in constant threat of sexual assault makes for uneasy viewing when the film plays it as some kind of «Taming of a Shrew» situation — but it is spectacular hokum.

Variety is the spice of life and Cuphead really delivers in this aspect as it throws a number of strange and bizarre characters at the player, all taken and twisted from the cartoons of the early 20th century.

«YOGI BEAR» (2010) Timberlake's voice performance as Boo - Boo was spot - on in this 2010 live - action / animated film adaptation of the classic cartoon.

If you were a child of the 80's like myself then Ghostbusters probably even snuck into your Saturday morning cartoons and play life as I had every toy under the Sun.

Tashlin, an animator before he turned to live action filmmaking, was all about the gag and helped define Lewis as a walking cartoon, the rubberface spastic adolescent in a grown - up body.

He had the power to make your childhood cartoon hero take muscular form as the live action He - Man thanks to Cannon...

And if you didn't immediately recognize Yelchin as the accident - prone Clumsy Smurf in the two live - action movies adapted from that cartoon franchise, his identity became clear not long after he opened his computer - generated mouth.

That being said, her plan is one of the many aforementioned concepts in the movie that play way too on - the - nose socio - politically in something that is presented as a live action cartoon more than anything else.

Back in the 1990s, when the production volume of Disney - branded live - action films was at an all - time high, the company thrice turned to old cartoons as inspirations for feature - length comedies.

The visual style of «Monkeybone» — which explores the melding of a cartoon character in our real - life world, in addition to an incredibly stylistic, Burton - influenced roller coaster of an afterlife — is something that really sticks with you as a viewer.

It came across more as a live - action cartoon rather than a comic - book, boasting scenes where the villainous Octopus literally hits The Spirit with a kitchen sink.

Perhaps because my expectations were lowered by past Disney live - action remakes or because the 1991 cartoon isn't among my favorites, but this effects - heavy version exceeded my expectations and stands as one of 2017's most enjoyable films thus far.

The one weak link in this story is that despite being a cartoon, a supernatural villain from the after - life is a departure for this series and it seems like Kai could have just as easily been from a distant land and not have taken away from the plot.

The big difference is that The Big Lebowski ambles along at a pace as chilled out as its spaced - out titular character, while Raising Arizona is a film with constant forward momentum and seemingly boundless energy, a Merrie Melodies / Looney Tunes cartoon come to feature - length life.

What We Love: While lesser fans might have included Newsies or American Ultra on this list, real Pullmaniacs point to Casper, the live action adaptation of the affable dead kid cartoon, as one of the top shelf performances.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Described by Roger Ebert as «not only great entertainment but a breakthrough in craftsmanship,» Who Framed Roger Rabbit introduced a new sense of realism into the interactions between cartoons and live - action characters onscreen.

Director Jon M. Chu — of several «Step Up» installments, as well as the «G.I. Joe» live - action franchise — adapts the kooky cartoon about a girl band with special futuristic powers to the YouTube generation, where anyone can be a star.

But as Ruth wades in over her head, crossing paths with the amoral small - time criminals that pillaged her property, the movie surrounds Lynskey — recognizably human in a role that puts her impeccable comic timing to good use — with a rogues» gallery of live - action cartoons.

Past animation and live action combos, such as Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, offered lovely mixtures of cartoon characters and real people, but looked a bit clunky and flat as well.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

There's really not a whole lot to say about such a big, dumb, overblown live - action cartoon as a «G.I. Joe» movie.

Do you have to prepare differently as an actor for a cartoon voice as opposed to a full live performance?

Disney has gone back to the well plenty of times before, from utilizing the characters in the early»90s Disney Afternoon cartoon «TaleSpin» to making 1994's forgettable live - action film starring Jason Scott Lee as an adult Mowgli to giving 2003's direct animated sequel a theatrical release.

Pixar's decision to interject a live - action Fred Willard into the film as the powerless president of Buy N Large Corp — shown via video feed in contrast to the film's cartoon humans of the future — is perplexing and ballsy.