Sentences with phrase «manic comedy»

Stiller opted for a less prickly performance with this character than in the manic comedy GREENBERG, which was an arguably more focused project.

For years, manic comedy was considered Robin Williams» forte.

But as strong as their performances are, they are practically burned to a crisp by Fiennes who, since The Grand Budapest Hotel, appears to have located within himself an unrepressable source of manic comedy.

If screwball comedies are about sex (previously without the actual sex) and about gender politics and power dynamics between men and women, Mike Nichols» The Fortune falls into this solid, if not always successful, attempt at reviving those little discourses under the guise of manic comedy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's manic comedy was named Best Film, Michael Keaton won the Best Actor award, and...

A manic comedy, with it's fair share of comical moments.

Not exact matches

By the time Bruce Almighty hit screens, audiences could tell that Oedekerk's manic sense of silly was still as strong as ever, and just three short years later that point was driven home when the increasingly prolific writer / director returned to the screens with the kid - friendly, computer animated comedy Barnyard.

Game Night is primarily a manic, madcap comedy, in which a group of friends unwittingly or knowingly go on dangerous adventures and make a slew of errors in the process.

In the Season 1 finale, series host David Steinberg interviews icons of improvisation: Robin Williams, whose wildly manic standup comedy style was greatly influenced by his mentor Jonathan Winters, off - the - cuff creator of delightfully eccentric characters.

is primarily a manic, madcap comedy, in which a group of friends unwittingly or knowingly go on dangerous adventures and make a slew of errors in the process.

Daniel Scheinert: — a coming - of - age teen comedy about ninth - graders crashing a party that the 12th - graders are throwing, but it has a bit of a Scott Pilgrim videogame aesthetic, where we would try to take that manic energy teenagers have and try to explore it with interactivity, where they're like, «What do I do?

See it cropping up in the character of Drew's widowed mother: in a flurry of manic energy after her husband's passing, Hollie (Susan Sarandon) proceeds to improve herself by learning stand - up comedy and tap - dancing — anything that will allow for slapstick comic whimsy (in learning to fix a car, the hood falls on her and she kicks her legs hysterically), which becomes as deadly as cancer during an ill - considered eulogy at a memorial service that stands as one of the most painful moments in movies this year.

Zhang Ziyi is the manic pixie at the center of a swirl of CGI whimsy in this romantic comedy, which is weird because while she's no doubt a terrific actress, she'd previously shown no aptitude whatsoever for comedy.

Robin Williams» movie roles saw him go self - indulgently gooey as often as self - indulgently manic, but in his last great film performance in pal Bobcat Goldthwait's black comedy World's Greatest Dad, he's brilliant.

Some familiar tropes are subverted and capsized (Avinoam feels like a manic pixie dream girl but that soon deviates, as does the Lievi's sheltered rich kids conceit) and all with a deft attention that is, especially for a comedy, unique and refreshing.

Actually, it is the manic pacing of the comedy that bothered me, breathlessly frenetic to a fault, as if Russell couldn't stop for even a moment or his whole house of cards would fall apart into nothingness, which I argue would be appropriate for a movie that uses nihilism as a plot device.

Michael Ian Black may know a thing or two about growing up in the 1980s, but only someone nostalgic for sophomoric comedies made 5 - 10 years ago (American Pie, Meet the Parents, There's Something About Mary), done poorly, will find any of the manic shenanigans remotely coming close to even grazing the funny bone.

The timing playfully alternates between expansive and manic, just as the comedy lurches from dumb puns to cinematic in - jokes to broad farce.

They're contrasting performances, too, with Crowe playing the jokes straight (a perfectly timed spit - take being a notable exception) and Gosling indulging in a manic yet entirely cohesive brand of comedy.

To his credit, he does manage to actually gain a few extra chuckles from his manic performance, but the weakness in the material eventually does show, and Mazursky's (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson) attempt at a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1920s and 30s replaces wit and panache with fits of desperation.

A road - trip buddy comedy in which Jason Mantzoukas gets to go full manic Mantzoukas opposite an uptight straight man (Grand Budapest Hotel's Tony Revolori) for 90 minutes?

And here are the five most disappointing films of the year: Fantastic Four (choppy and compromised superhero action), Sisters (corny comedy that's simply not smart enough), Southpaw (bogs down in boxing drama cliches), Pan (childish and manic kids» adventure), Black Mass (oddly unoriginal mob thriller).

The earnest, sincere melodrama and manic meta comedy should work against each other; instead they complement each other.

Aniston is surprisingly funny as the short - tempered psychologist who really should be in therapy herself, and Hahn gets the balance just right between the manic emotion and the darker comedy.

A runaway bride seeks refuge on a tropical island inhabited by a reclusive perfumer in this manic screwball comedy, dazzlingly filmed on location in New York, Provence, and Venezuela.

A movie like «Date Night» encourages Hollywood comedy to occasionally dial down, and realize that comedy emerges from characters and situations and can't be manufactured from manic stunts and overkill.

Usually, in these cluttered affairs, the comedy is as manic as the surroundings, and, desperately swinging for the big yuks, the movie ends as just another loud strikeout.

Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach conceived «Mistress America» as a tribute to the screwball comedies of old, giving the movie a manic, theatrical fizz - characters running in and out of frame, dialogue coming in volleys.

The closest corollary is the freewheeling Sully (Stephen Guarino), who riffs and rambles with the manic energy of Comedy Store vet Robin Williams.

Stiller is especially good when Brad becomes full of frazzled neurosis, cranking things up to manic but not overplaying it as so many primary comedy actors might be tempted to.

A familiar plot turns into a delicious screwball comedy when a tough kid is exposed to a manic household and people who are willing to let him change.

This much - loved family favorite wonderfully captures Robin Williams» gift for manic, goofy comedy — as well as San Francisco's exquisite scenic charms.

And on the other hand, they were rather extroverted and manic... Possibly the comedy — the extroverted side — is a way of dealing with the depressive side.»