Sentences with phrase «low comedy into»

- 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.»

Not exact matches

A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Wayans entered the comic arena in the mid -»80s by stepping up to the mike and honing his stand - up act, but he later branched out into movies, by scripting the low - budget black satire Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and the aptly - titled comedy vehicle Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987), both for director pal Robert Townsend.

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.

Unless you're one of those people that is taken completely by surprise when you see a flock of birds in a film and they end up pooping on someone, usually as the punctuation to a scene to embarrass or get revenge, this is scraping mighty low in the gag department to turn this into a comedy.

Hayek doesn't necessarily disappoint on any front — her energy and cuteness are a fine juxtaposition of «acting» in the film, and Nick Swardson's psychotic, heavily drug - addled school bus driver breaches into some low echelon of physical comedy.

That sort of idiot humor never gets old but it's good to see R - rated comedies really pushing forward into even more and more inappropriate and offensive material involving wrongheaded violence, animals doing sex things you never thought about before and even lower depths of smart stupidity.

Released: June 16 Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard Director: Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (The Fairy) Why it's great: Fans of the La La Land's Technicolor whimsy, the bizarrerie of Amélie, and / or the low - key hijinks of Wallace and Gromit cartoons should seek out the latest from «Abel and Gordon,» an old - meets - new comedy starring the director couple as a Canadian woman desperate to find her missing aunt, and the free - wheeling tramp who injects himself into the search to varying degrees of helpfulness.

Gentle and very smart, this low - key comedy gets under the skin as it follows a smart young kid into the adult world.

Director Dan Scanlon turns that simple story idea into a great, fast paced college comedy with an intriguing blend of emotional highs and lows.

Writer / director Hayden J Weal uses chronesthesia (aka mental time travel — the ability to think into the past and future) as a catalyst for romantic comedy in this low - budget feature.

The plot is structured, a little too neatly, to nudge Jake into being less of a narcissistic jerk, which always seems like a low bar to set with any comedy - drama.

The latest in a recent string of directorial debuts about young people grappling with the imminent or recent loss of a parent, Demetri Martin's «Dean» may not land with the sheer force of «James White» or offer the exacting detail of Sundance opener «Other People,» but this winsome low - key comedy lucidly conveys how grief can feel like being shot into uncharted stretches of outer space.

Obvious Child is another charming and thoroughly enjoyable entry into the ranks of modern low key indie comedies.

Kids and beginners can get their kicks on the lower half of the mountains on green circle and blue square groomers, or in the mini terrain park, never far from a hot chocolate or a soak in the hot tub back at the slope side condo or lodge, where you can rehearse your favorite lines from Hot Tub Time Machine (in 2009 Fernie was temporarily transformed into a 1980s ski resort for the filming of this John Cusack sci - fi comedy classic.)