Sentences with phrase «low comedy»

This small - budget blend of Ferat Vampire and Little Shop of Horrors climbs through the gears from low comedy to a gleefully cynical finale...

Low comedy usurped high drama in the opening stages of the World Series as the Mets and the A's traded victories — and absurdities

STANFORD»S BAND The musical kings of sophomoric humor have been banned from performing on the field at the next three Stanford - Notre Dame games after their Oct. 4 exhibition, in which, amid other bits of very low comedy, they parodied the Irish potato famine.

The folks at DreamWorks Animation are obviously counting on the audience bringing good feelings about Po and company into the theater with them, so they've taken the risk of lowering the comedy quotient and emphasizing new characters and plot elements.

Its absurdist blend of high fashion and low comedy meant it needed to find an audience willing to give into pure silliness at a time when that was the last thing on people's...

Woody Allen is having a late - period resurgence with movies like Blue Jasmine and Midnight in Paris, but looking back over his career, there was no other filmmaker on the planet who, during the»80s, blended high and low comedy with such confidence.

In «The Replacements,» Hackman and Reeves are the heroes, and most of the other characters provide low comedy, including a Welsh placekicker (Rhys Ifans) who chain - smokes, even while actually on the playing field, and other recruits including a sumo wrestler, a mad dog who attacks anything that is red, and a deaf lineman («Look at it this way: He'll never be called offsides on an audible»).

Even in a lot of Shakespearean plays there's sometimes low comedy within it.

Low comedy walks hand and hand with tragedy and beauty throughout; the film is frothy one minute, nearly apocalyptic the next, and so you're never fully allowed to gather your bearings.

The best and worst part of «We're the Millers» is that no matter how scrubby the material, the cast is always «on,» as if they know their high - concept low comedy will be a hit.

- School Library Journal «Once again Horvath displays a genius for creating multigenerational, interestingly extended families, and for blending high and low comedy into a tale rife with important themes and life - changing events.»

Solo exhibitions include Low Comedy and Id, Ed, Ad, Od, both at Ramiken Crucible, New York, A Farmer's Knowledge at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Late Work at White Flag Projects, St. Louis, and Inside the White Cube at White Cube in London.

Thanks to a mix of low comedy, skimpy bikinis and a guy named Joe, beer commercials have long been one of the more popular forms of advertising in Canada.

Arum's traveling pugs were low rent, it turned out, and the evening's entertainment was low comedy.

The only thing missing from this low comedy was Governor William J. Le Petomane and his buxom secretary.

Political amateurs brandish their inexperience in elective office as their primary credential, and while an outsider's perspective can be valuable, too often the result is low comedy (This is Herman Cain!).

Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.

While the low comedy is undeniably effective, the film leaves behind a bad taste of snobbery and petty meanness.

Lurching, gliding and sometimes dancing between humor and drama, action and repose, high art and low comedy, The New Colossus seems absolutely unafraid to make us think, churn our stomachs, or test our reflexes.

The British actress has played high comedy (30 Rock), low comedy (The Pink Panther), demented drama (Match Point), and more demented drama (Lars And The Real Girl), bringing charm and class to every role.

It's low comedy — tit and dick jokes mixed with hammy acting.

In theory, the failings of a low comedy sequel should catch nobody by surprise these days, especially given the current standards for this material in the studio realm.

Violence in Harris's world is a matter of honor, in Hackman's it is low comedy and psychological horror and in Eastwood's it is simply a matter of drunken chance.

A Vast Conspiracy is written with the narrative drive of a sensational (if improbable) legal thriller, and Toobin brilliantly explores the high principle and low comedy that were the hallmarks of the story.

Full of high and low comedy and rollicking adventures, this is part travel memoir, part autobiography, and pure, anarchic fun.

For all the low comedy, Somerville targets a deadly serious history.

Often using himself as the subject of his satirical paintings, photographs, and sculptures, Kippenberger dares viewers to laugh at the sardonic and provocative statements made in his own brand of low comedy.