Sentences with phrase «like slapstick»

If you don't like slapstick and goofy humor, this probably isn't for you.

Like a slapstick comedian, he strikes emotional notes of humor and pathos in equal measures, alternating between moments of antic joy and Sisyphean futility.

-- Customizing System which allows you to change how your team look and improve your team \'s skills — The funny plays of players like slapstick comedy — Half - turn rule suitable for mobile devices — Funny soccer moments: Drunks, dogs, bicycle riders and etc. on soccer fields — 10 leagues and over 60 different teams — Replay value: Contract extension system — Various soccer fields and weather effects

The mounting scale of each disaster is like a slapstick version of the death scenes in «Final Destination 3,» where a perfectly ordinary day in the stock room can end with a death by nail gun.

Unfortunately this film is not one of my favorites, it plays more like a slapstick comedy, which is not funny, with a few decent action scenes chucked in.

If you like slapstick humor and all of that stuff.

I guess such behavior is de rigueur in the post - «Girls» female landscape but too often such moments just feel like slapstick gone mean.

If you liked the slapstick style of the original, the sequel is amusing.

Not exact matches

Childbirth class is not a big, slapstick group exercise of pushing out the baby like I thought it might be.

I like mild humiliation scenarios and spankings, watersports (but not scat), slapstick, forced...

The fact that the trio of actors are now adults is reinforced as Ron is disguised behind a beard that makes him look like a dashing Musketeer rather than a slapstick fancy dress character.

Though the movie begins like one of those wretched Robin Williams Disney comedies (and is dotted with bits of broken slapstick), it leverages the nastiness that has always underlaid his inexhaustible ingratiation.

Continuing to turn out box - office bonanzas like Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Edwards briefly jumped on the comedy bandwagon of the mid -»60s with the slapstick epic The Great Race (1965), which the director dedicated to his idols, «Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy.»

The idea of letting the likes of Farrell, Fey, and Hill loose within this colorful playground is undeniably appealing, but the picture rarely clicks as smoothly as it should, caught between the slapstick demands of the genre and the exceedingly clever tongues of the cast.

Yep, this is Aardman's first sports movie, filtered through director Park's specific sensibility of slapstick foolishness, with deadpan animal sidekicks, endless puns and actors like Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall and Miriam Margolyes having a lovely time lending their voices to his buck - toothed, beady - eyed Plasticine characters.

It's sort of like Glee with a degree or Pitch Perfect without the slapstick and one - liners but with added (realistic) swearing and a particularly believable exploration of sexuality.

Though keeping worthwhile targets - like professors who want to see their most creative students fail - director Steve Pink lets his punk inspiration slide into standard school rivalries and unrelated slapstick.

With its mix of live - action and hyper - real animal animation, Peter Rabbit plays like a country cousin to Paul King's Paddington films, similarly balancing slapstick, absurdism, and a touch of gross - out humor, though without King's transcendently oddball sensibility.

Like this summer's other slapstick cause célèbre, «Pineapple Express,» it's a comedy with as high or higher a body count as the movies it purports to be parodying, and the problem isn't the violence per se but rather the fact that neither movie ever finds a satisfactory balance between tongue - in - cheek and guts - in - hand.

Like the abominable «Napoleon Dynamite,» director Jared Hess» second feature will doubtless capture the hearts and minds of 12 - year - old boys everywhere, even if Nacho Libre sacrifices the earlier film's aggressive mean - spiritedness in favor of gentle slapstick lunacy.

Though it's a loud, vulgar, and occasionally brutal comedy, it never succumbs to the fashion for facetiousness: Clint Eastwood always takes his work seriously, even in a relatively impersonal project like this, and there are moments of moving emotional candor amid the slapstick, flashes on loneliness, forgiveness, and loyalty.

Actually, it's like watching something other than a movie, like a bunch of bad acting, cheesy dialogue and laughably crap special effects, and like this kind of slapstick childish unfunny type of humour, all exploded

Actually, it's like watching something other than a movie, like a bunch of bad acting, cheesy dialogue and laughably crap special effects, and like this kind of slapstick childish unfunny type of humour, all exploded onto your screen!!!! It's a bit like something you'd see on Disney Channel, like in the same league as Lizzie McGuire.

Not only does he genuinely look like Charlie but he manages to mimic the moves, walk, facial expressions and even the comedic slapstick Charlie amazed us with in his movies.

Like Palka's mom - dog, the movie is a mess, clicking back and forth between shadowy horror, suburban melodrama, and the kind of slapstick family comedy in which I half - expected Eddie Murphy to burst through the front door in a fat suit.

Whereas a hit like Wedding Crashers struck such a balance somewhat awkwardly — structured so that the first half was for boys - boy rowdiness, and the second half for girly - girl romance — Apatow's latest tackles both exigencies nearly simultaneously, a considerable feat aided by the writer - director's adept ability to wring laughs not from outrageous farce and slapstick but, instead, from real - world situations and dilemmas.

Harold needs some help from above in this cartoon - like caper full of rich animation and awesome slapstick...

They range from the almost slapstick silliness of Darren Lynn Bousman's The Night Billy Raised Hell, featuring cartoon sound effects and Barry Bostwick having a horned (and horny) good time, to Lucky McKee's insanely deep and disturbing Ding Dong, which considers what a night of trick - or - treaters ringing the door bell might be like for a woman (witch?)

Russell's captivating turn as Ego the Living Planet, unfurling via a storyline that's best when left unspoiled, as well as welcome additions like the strange and sweetly slapstick Mantis (newcomer Pom Klementieff) and Stakar Ogord (Sylvester Stallone, having a blast chewing up and spitting out serious space jargon).

Certainly with only one nearly uttered profanity, some bare navels, and slapstick cartoon - like violence, there is little here to keep families away.

A common film formula found in 1980's slapstick comedies is the riches - to - rags storyline in which a wealthy character is subjected to living like a member of a lower class.

Lost in Paris returns slapstick and sight gags, now the fodder or annual Shrek imitators, back to the world of art, with the pratfalling misadventures of two caricatured romantics playing out like a musical.

One look at the likes of Wile E Coyote or the painful slapstick stunts of the Jackass team, and it's easy to trace those hijinks back to the Stooges.

His very early movies were great fun and laid in the tradition of American slapstick like «The Three Stooges «and The Marx Brothers, and afterwards he changed course and made some extremely profound films in the 60s and 70s.

I find most insulting of all about this gag - a-thon (not «gag» as in «hardy - har - har» slapstick... I mean more like the two - girls - one - cup kind) the fact that the MANY producers and directors could not make this thing work better with an ensemble like this.

«Atlanta's» 10 episodes shift between seriousness and slapstick, examining issues like identity and appropriation with an immediacy and intelligence that made it unlike anything else on television.

The Mom and Daughter are held captive for like... 2 minutes, and the rest of the film is slapstick comedy.

While they play like existential slapstick comedies, with a glimmer of hope under all that dour stoicism, The Match Factory Girl (1990) remains Kaurismaki's darkest comedy...

Working Title's previous hits, Four Weddings... and Notting Hill, relied on slapstick, plus the words «fuck» and Billy Bunterisms like «crikey».

Like its predecessor, «Paddington 2» is a clever delight of visual invention and wit; this sequel draws particularly from the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for its ingenious slapstick action set pieces, while the screenplay by director Paul King and Simon Farnaby packs the dialogue with fun wordplay and tiny details that pay off in major comic ways.

And Jones» Briggs seems like he wandered in from a different movie — a slapstick, saloon comedy.

The Scalphunters is pitched roughly on the same level as one of those live - action Disney pictures from the Sixties and Seventies, like The Cat from Outer Space or Blackbeard's Ghost — all Technicolor and slapstick and even, I shit you not, tweetie bird sounds whenever our heroes get conked on the head.

Kevin — The goofy, emu - like bird from «Up» has some of the best slapstick gags and mannerisms Pixar has ever come up with.

Audiences who find predictable slapstick, sitcom - like, crude humor funny will have an air - conditioned escape, but there is nothing new under the sun here for anyone with expectations.

It is another feckless series of awkwardly - scored (and occasionally inappropriate) slapstick, horrifically incompetent computer animation, and broad child acting that makes Jake Lloyd look like Olivier.

All three dropped out, and the roles wound up going to less distractingly famous actors, allowing the film to seem less like a bloated Saturday Night Live sketch and more like a tribute to the nearly lost art of expertly timed slapstick.

Tangerine at its worst feels like shouting and Three Stooges slapstick with a nasty undercurrent of violence — it's hard not to think of a moment where Alexandra prepares to fight a would - be John by saying she has «a dick, too» when Sin - Dee spends the middle portion of the film savaging Chester's small, blonde paramour.

Fortunately for him, he found it, thanks to the back - to - back slapstick successes of «Spies Like Us» and «Three Amigos,» while a re-teaming with Eddie Murphy for «Coming to America» kept the momentum going.

No simple logline can account for the rubbery slapstick, like something out of a morbid Stephen Chow movie; the body horror played for insane laughs; or the existential despair that invades the film like a thief in the night.

How this is very much removed from Ron Jeremy being a porn star is beyond me: both play on this fantasy that women like Kunis are available to men like Segel and, therefore, to every schlub sitting in the dark chucking blunt elbows into each other's rib cages at every failed joke and rattle of humiliating slapstick.