Sentences with word «lowbrow»

Its spirit and level of humor is sure to please fans of lowbrow comedies such as American Pie, and needs the «rowdy bunch» factor (seeing the film with boisterous friends) in order to be properly appreciated.

WHY: Though the original «Vacation» featured its share of lowbrow comedy, the 2015 sequel / reboot is so embarrassingly dumb that it makes the Harold Ramis / John Hughes classic seem decidedly highbrow by comparison.

This is not just a kid's movie with lowbrow humor substituting for entertainment but an imaginative confection where kids can see their fantasies lived out and adults can revel that the filmmakers have actually thought about them.

I don't necessarily have a problem with lowbrow humor, as I enjoyed a similarly scatological entry with funny accents with Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat.

Director and co-writer Adam McKay, known for lowbrow comedies often starring Will Ferrell («Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy») unbeloved by me, makes the unlikeliest left turn in Hollywood history.

Pop Surrealism, often referred to as Lowbrow Art as well, is mainly described as a style that bridges, and brings together, elements from different popular forms of expression such as cartoons, comic book art, graffiti, Street art, tattoo, and illustrations.

And this is a shame, because it's a highly enjoyable movie in a way that certainly isn't as lowbrow as my last sentence would seem to imply.

It features combines Sugiura's signature brand of absurd action and exquisite drawing, veering constantly from lowbrow cartoon spoof to nuanced meditation on American cultural influence.»

But if you're too much of a snob to waste your time on lowbrow comedy like this, it's your loss entirely.

In a nutshell, that subplot explains everything that's wrong about the film: Its propensity for barrel - scraping lowbrow gags, its undisciplined, catch - all approach to comedy, and perhaps above all, its chronic inability to focus on what it's ostensibly about, and cut away the extraneous stuff.

In a way, it's of a similar mindset to the crude romantic comedies which came out around 2000, especially any of the Farrelly Brothers films, which went for lowbrow laughs at the expense of some dim bulb characters, featuring a nonstop soundtrack of modern pop - rock hits, and with a sweetness underneath to try to make it seem cute in its own juvenile way.

Yet fossil records indicate musical instruments, drawings, needles and other sophisticated tools didn't appear until about 50,000 years ago, suggesting Homo sapiens had a pretty lowbrow culture for 150,000 years.

The Hot Chick delivers exactly what you would expect from a Happy Madison production: Crude bathroom humor, sexual innuendo, and the basest of sight gags, all of which will tickle the funny bone of the lowest of lowbrow film lovers.

Bulworth is a headstrong dervish of a film, caroming this way and that from high comedy to lowbrow urban potboiler to impassioned tract.

Sonnier is a pioneer in Postminimalist light installation and uses lowbrow materials and surprising shape configurations to highlight the connection between restraint and psychological impact.

This makes sense because he is originally from LA, which is the cradle of lowbrow movement, but at the same time, he is a classically trained creator.

While both films are somewhat lowbrow sex comedies, there is just no justice in this world that a horrible film like Tomcats could get a theatrical release, when a surprisingly funny take on the fear of getting married heads straight to video.

Normally I reserve such lowbrow humor for people I know well enough so that I don't offend others who may not appreciate it, or at the very least, so that they don't make the assumption that that's how I think all of the time.

Sometimes it's about actually not wanting to cook and other times it's about a craving... usually Mexican but sometimes something more lowbrow like (gasp!)

It seems the folks at National Lampoon found an independent film they consider to be just lowbrow enough for them to buy out the rights to in Blackball, an over-the-top comedy surrounding the game of lawn bowling in the UK.

I make lowbrow art stuff for those who love cartoons, horror movies, sci - fi, fantasy, real american heroes, comic books, sugary breakfast cereals, heavy metal, robots in disguise, giant monsters, space opera, and wild animals!

So plainly does Nebraska adhere to the Payne formula, a merging of high - and lowbrow sensibilities, that it's surprising to learn he didn't actually pen the screenplay.

Like the comic books that presented Wonder Woman to the world, these have a disreputable, lowbrow status.

But the possibility of bribery and blackmail here makes it impossible to fully separate out highbrow and lowbrow aspects of the scandal.

Despite the film being interspersed with obligatory cutaway scenes of nameless, faceless snowboarders, this is the same lowbrow teen sex comedy you've seen time and again on cable, with T&A, crude sexual humor, and tacky characters galore.

However, both of them generally star in rather innocuous, somewhat lowbrow romantic comedies, and this works against the thrust of the overall film.

Released the same year as Robert Altman's «Nashville,» «Smile» takes a similar satirical look at lowbrow American culture.

BASEketball is just another over-the-top lowbrow endeavor, utilizing as much frat - house hijinks to cover up the fact that there just isn't enough here to justify its own existence on he big screen.

«The BFG» has an alarming number of lowbrow moments for a Spielberg film, particularly when it comes to bathroom humor.

Although the screenplay by Theodore Melfi («Hidden Figures») is sprinkled with some pertinent commentary on ageism and corporate greed, the film is basically just an excuse to laugh at old people as they get high on medical marijuana, shoplift from grocery stores and engage in other lowbrow hijinks.

Likeable, well acted and frequently funny comedy but its occasionally sloppy script and an over-reliance on lowbrow humour prevents it from becoming something really special.

There are obvious dichotomies here between lowbrow pop culture and handmade craft, as well as those between gender and labor.

But Lollipop Chainsaw delivers on the same level as Scooby Doo and No More Heroes: lowbrow jokes, crass pandering, and a blithe disregard for meaningful characters or gameplay.

Most of the humor is fairly lowbrow with tasteless jokes referring to people's skin color and body odor.

Influenced by the soulful sounds of Billy Stewart, the kitschy aesthetic of John Waters, and the provocative artifice of drag culture, Gaignard employs lowbrow pop sensibilities to create dynamic visual narratives.

It sounded lowbrow and disgusting, but instead it was a minor miracle: tart, slightly sweet and salty with umami flavor from the Maggi and funk from the Clamato.

He's sophisticated enough to be a presenter at the Tony Awards but lowbrow enough that afterward he would have dined at Taco Bell.

But in 2001, in an interview with the New Statesmen, Letwin said she thought party politics «a pretty lowbrow activity.»

Jerri may be a freshman here, but Sedaris, grotesque and fearless, is already lowbrow homecoming queen

Critic Consensus: Though lowbrow in intent and outcome, Strange Brew effectively mines laughs from its unique premise and likeable stars.

Lumpy lowbrow humour and characters as thin as a Monopoly board mar Game Night, a comedy with an irresistible premise, but that only.

The Interview is exactly what everyone was expecting from Franco, Rogen, and Goldberg: dumb, silly, sophomoric fun filled with lowbrow toilet humor and plethora of dick and fart jokes.

Hess dives deeply into the ass crack of suburban North Carolina, finding lowbrow caricature courtesy his two wonderfully shameless lead actors, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.

This time — working from a script by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey — Hess dives deeply into the ass crack of suburban North Carolina, finding lowbrow caricature courtesy his two wonderfully shameless lead actors, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.

He keeps backsliding into lowbrow comic high jinks: a scatological accident, a «Scooby Doo plan» involving a hidden bag of marijuana.

But those deliberately lowbrow laugh - a-minute joke-fests represent only one kind of parody.

If you're looking to appreciate the style of humour, it's lowbrow stuff.