Sentences with phrase «little slapstick»

That air is reinforced by the aspects of farce, comedy of manners, and even a little slapstick that continually make themselves felt.

It's a messy casserole of Avengers promotion and crossover frippery, shoehorning in unnecessary supporting characters and dual archvillains, devolving its hero to the shallow dickweed he was at the start of the first movie just to generate some character conflict, throwing in a little slapstick martial arts so its director can have an onscreen star moment alongside a sexy A-lister...

There is very little slapstick (outside of the daydreaming sequences that is), instead working for the jokes.

A little slapstick at times.

I suppose I'm an easy mark for low - brow humor and cringe - inducing pun play, but who doesn't appreciate a little slapstick from time to time?

Not exact matches

Somehow, with little consequence except the continued appreciation of British children, the puppet Mr. Punch has managed to commit domestic abuse, infanticide and other slapstick crimes for 350 years now.

A little rough around the edges, Damn The Circus cleverly entwines a healthy dose of slapstick, tumbling and drama with incredible acrobatics.

The script is little more than a string of excuses for various skits and slapstick set pieces but the laughs flow much more freely than in Singapore.

traps the affable Ice Cube in a dismal kiddy slapstick saga that even his considerable charisma can do little to enhance.

The film tries to pack in a little bit too much in its running time, and there isn't a comedic moment until well into the film, a strange choice in a movie for kids, but The Wild Life has its moments of charm, hilarity, and slapstick that worked really well.

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

As ever, the game is overflowing with goofy slapstick and visual comedy, with almost every cutscene stuffed with little vignettes in the background or subversions of the more serious comics material it's appropriating.

Though at times he's been presented as little more than a attention deficient 12 - year - old boy in an adult murderer's body, there have been cases where the character has been presented as a bit more than a simple collection of crass one - liners and hit - or - miss slapstick gags.

Even though he starred in another comedy before this - the romcom See You Tomorrow (2016)- it is still a little alarming to see him go entirely slapstick here and hopping around with little critters.

This may sound a little dark, and like all Baumbach movies it certainly has its fair share of despair, but here he cuts through the neuroses with a healthy dollop of zany, almost slapstick humor, much of which is visual in nature.

If we went a little more toward that sort of slapstick territory, I think the film would fall apart.

My only gripe really was some of the superhero dreams sequences at the beginning of the film were perhaps more in keeping with the type of slapstick airhead humour Stiller exercised in Zoolander and was perhaps a little ill fitting for Walter Mitty.

When the movie goes after bigger comic set pieces than improv - friendly «you look like...» runs (e.g., «you look like burn - victim Barbie»), it tends to get a little dodgy, as with a long sequence of weird sexually tinged slapstick at a spa.

Not until you get a little older do you appreciate that Monty Python earned their outsider status by being a satirical animal as opposed to a slapstick one — that the lengths to which they'd go for a joke has more to do with camouflage than with their stated goal of silliness.

At this point in the series, we have little choice but to expect leftovers, shoehorning Sparrow and a villain du jour into the plot of an existing pirate novel's plot, determining to deliver eye - candy goods copiously mixed with one - facet characters performing slapstick during ample swordplay.

The kid actors are fine but asked to be little more than slapstick variations on the same old same old: the myopic one, the morbidly obese one, the one destined for bigger things, and the future writer.

And that's what I would want to do — a daytime vision of Joy Behar with a little more snap and slapstick a la Ellen DeGeneres (there is only one Ellen and long may she reign), with some stories that are really stories (like Oprah's story about Janni, a seven - year - old schizophrenic, who is the beautiful and tragic daughter of two of my dear friends).

The rest of the yokai are just used for slapstick humor or one - shot jokes, and while I understand the key audience and what they are looking for in this kind of manga, I would have been much more impressed if the jokes were less «LOL LOOK AT THIS WEIRD GUY» and something a little more substantial.

Slapstick, a Deadpooliverse character whose power is be a clown (timely) wqas a little too weird for print, but is getting his own digital - first comic from Marvel's Infinite Comics line.

It's also fair to say he's a little clumsy, acting as the game's shallow flirtation with slapstick comedy.

Exactly how or why little LEGO Batman and the rest of the characters managed to learn the art of conversing in between LEGO Batman and LEGO Batman 2 shall forever remain a mystery, but there's no denying that this is a brave move on the developers behalf as much of the franchises appeal can be traced back to the simple fact that watching mute little plastic people miming their feelings and attempting to convey complex emotions through the art of slapstick is awesome.

It's got that perfect angle that makes kids and adults laugh, with some jokes going over little ones» heads, and enough non-annoying slapstick comedy to make them laugh too.

It's more than a little tonally odd for this series and its usual slapstick nature.