Sentences with phrase «many comic talents»

Audible founder and Chief Executive Donald Katz said in a statement on Monday the company had been attracted by Rooftop's content as well as its pool of comic talent.

This Is Littleton is a character - based sketch comedy series starring the best and brightest new comic talent from Australia.

To say it's the best of their three collaborations might be underselling the film's appeal since the other two films — «Tammy» and «The Boss» — didn't make the best use of McCarthy's considerable comic talents.

That doesn't mean the filmmakers have walked away from Ferrell's comic talents.

Her considerable comic talents are impossible to find here in a film that feels like it's from a different era in a bad way.

The supporting cast is really an all - star cast of comic talent.

Originally famous as the bodacious, brain - challenged Bundy offspring Kelly on Fox's long - running dysfunctional family sitcom Married... With Children, Christina Applegate parlayed her comic talents and sexy image into a parallel movie career.

As the titular ex-CIA man, White reveals comic talents to match his martial artistry, delivering one - liners and roundhouse kicks with the same killer precision.

And while I'd never noticed Paul Walter Hauser in anything before, his scene - stealing work as Shawn Eckardt suggests a deep reservoir of comic talent.

Wasting comic talents like Rudd and Fey should come with consequences.

As the actor brings her comic talents to bear on the Ab Fab movie, we look at her playful turns on the big screen

Despite the presence of two of Disney's finest comic talents of the decade, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo feels like a big step down from the first two films.

The comic talents of Ferrell and Poehler are wasted in this frat farce which, despite a promising premise, soon resembles reheated Hangover leftovers

It all adds up to quite the chemistry - class fusion of comic talent.

Diane Keaton and Louise Lasser are beautiful women, but Allen worked with them for their comic talents.

Chris Hemsworth, popping up as Rusty's conservative, beef - loving, big dicked, brother - in - law, exudes charisma and potentially promising comic talent that is wholly underserved.

In 2002, McConaughey's devilish charm, comic talent, and good looks were finally tapped for the first of several romantic comedies.

Cedric the Entertainer is also around to provide second - banana back - up jokes; given the amount of heavy - hitting comic talent on display here, this may be the one sitcom this season that we love so much we wan na take it out back and get it pregnant.

The film was first pitched as a black Ocean's Eleven that would pair producer / star Eddie Murphy with a who's - who of black comic talent, and climax with a heist involving Donald Trump and the Trump Tower.

With Carell's comic talents, perhaps Trent could have been conceived as a less obvious creep, and more as a blustery manipulator: less blunt Stalin, more seductive Mephistopheles.

If Gordon - Levitt is still left wanting for a perfect comic vehicle, The Night Before also employs a deep bench of female comic talent that includes Bell, Mindy Kaling, Ilana Glazer, and a slightly underused Lizzy Caplan.

Based on a script by Chris Galletta that finished high on the 2009 Black List, we're expecting an offbeat combination of «Moonrise Kingdom,» «Son Of Rambow» and» Where The Wild Things Are» (we may yet be way off...), and while the film has a trio of newcomers in the lead roles, there's some ace comic talent in the supporting cast, including «Community» actress Alison Brie, and «Parks & Rec» duo Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally as some of the boys» parents.

The film hits and misses, despite the comic talent on display.

Jason Bateman once again squanders his comic talent, playing a straight man to Melissa McCarthy «s unpalatable identity thief.

In «The Actors», Caine gets the chance not only to play a struggling and slightly bitter thespian, but also to display his not - inconsiderable comic talent (having made us chortle heartily in both «Goldmember» and «Dirty Rotten Scoundrels», it hardly comes as a surprise that he knows how to produce a laugh or three).

Scott is joined by a top - notch bunch of comic talent, including Richard Jenkins, Catherine O'Hara, Amy Poehler, Jane Lynch, Clark Duke, Adam Pally, Ken Howard and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (with Jessica Alba also involved), and the premise is pretty ripe for hilarity and something a little more besides.

But poor poor Merchant and Revolori, two ace comic talents in their own rights shoved into nerdy stereotypes.

Jonathan Levine's Snatched flies in with a lot of wide - reaching and intelligent comic talent and only asks them to make a mess.

After watching «Super Troopers,» it's evident that the men of Broken Lizard are brimming with comic talent, but they still have a long way to gobefore reaching the high standards set by past comedy troupes like Monty Python.

Akhavan upped sticks to the U.K. this year, developing a comedy about a bisexual woman for the BBC «s Channel 4 — let's hope we get to see it some time in 2016, because she's one of the sharpest new comic talents we've seen in a long while.

At last, Melissa McCarthy has a vehicle worthy of her prodigious comic talent: Spy is her funniest film to date.

Leading the ensemble is Rachel McAdams who's positively luminous as Becky; proving yet again what a terrific, underappreciated comic talent she is.

One of Chaplin's most ingenious shorts, this stunning showcase for his solo comic talents sees him playing a drunken man returning home to navigate his apartment.

Thus freed from the burdens of narrative logic and / or character development, the comic talents of Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Ike Barinholtz, and others are allowed to float free and act on their impulses in an «anything goes» atmosphere — the raunchier the better.

Ferrell is, after all, a marvellous comic talent (he won me over last year with «Elf», the best live - action comedy of 2003 and a piece of work I'm willing to wager he'll never better) and «Anchorman» is, after a bit of a slow start, a very good comedy.

A lot of comic talent is squandered along the way.

Between them, those two projects pieced together an expansive team of comic talent, including Michael McKean, Jennifer Coolidge, and of course Guest and Levy themselves — and most of them are back again for this tongue - in - cheek gawp behind - the - scenes at a folk music reunion gig.

But he did, and he took the edge off some great comic talent in the process.

Ghostbusters featured an excellent crew of comic talent such as Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis.

Surely someone amid the three directors and nine writers could have found a way to take advantage of so many comic talents.

The film around her is fit to burst with other actors also equipped with considerable comic talents.

The bright - eyed comic talent is now starring in the popular sitcom New Girl on Fox as another quirky and offbeat chick with a sense of humor trying to figure out life in her early thirties.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

I think he's one of the edgiest, most original comic talents of the last quarter - century.

He talked to Moviehole.net in Los Angeles about wrangling such experienced comic talents as Ferrell and «The House» costar Amy Poehler, what actors bring to the table and how fear of numbers really is a thing.

She has not used her comic talent enough.

For starters, it trades on a similar formula of bromantic mystery plus broad comedy played out by strong (but not overly expensive) comic talent.

June Squibb is also at the table, as the former nanny of the bride, so that's another sizable comic talent wasted on bad material.

Unfortunately, it just ends up being an unfunny mess that squanders a lot of comic talent and further tarnishes whatever happy memories viewers had of the first film.

Tatum has proven himself a facile comic talent, but his dramatic skills to this point have been lackluster at best.Yet here he brings a brooding, insecure competitor to life in every facet of his performance.