Sentences with phrase «many sight gags»

We thought we knew what this show was, with its drug - cooking high jinks and tighty - whitey sight gags, but we were wrong.

The surprise of seeing your face triggers the biggest giggles — make it an even sillier sight gag by using a range of goofy expressions.

The joke, of course, refers to GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's unfortunate LCA Show response, during which the sight gag that was supposed to spoof on Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's mustache failed because the former Long Island congressman misplaced his nose wig.

It's not only a great sight gag but also an amazing technical breakthrough.

We know there's going to be a heap of gross - out sight gags and to also expect the worst.

One sight gag is, well, just that — a real gag, in the other sense of the word.

There are gigglesome set - pieces, witty sight gags, clever one - liners and references that actually skewer their original source rather than just replicate them for the recognition factor - Megamind's Obama - like «No You Can't» posters get a laugh every time they pop up on screen.

At only 84 minutes, it never bogs down with needless seriousness or scenes of emotional schmaltz, always seeking to keep audiences smiling with sight gags, allusions that are actually clever, and choice bits of music that accentuates the action instead of just being shoehorned in to hock soundtracks.

At other times, one liners, sight gags and various villainous antics bring a chuckle to the lips of viewers young and old.

The inevitable confrontation between good and evil is only a vehicle for continually inventive sight gags and biting lines.

The sight gags and deadpanning from the crew are nowhere to be found, leaving the burden of engagement squarely on the shoulders of a featherweight story which simply does not do enough to carry it.

To be dwarfed by an even larger adversary served as a punchline to the sight gag of a group of hyper - masculine men.

But a Jeff Spicoli Fast Times at Ridgemont High sight gag?

The «American Pie» franchise throws in another kitchen sink of gross - out sight gags by screenwriter Adam Herz («American Pie» 1 and 2) in this third, and hopefully final installment, of percolating testosterone commotion.

And there are only so many nose - growing - Pinocchio and stumbling - Blind Mice sight gags one can appreciate.

Early Man, which goes out in the UK through Studiocanal on January 26 and Lionsgate in the US on Feburary 16 — the same team as Shaun The Sheep Movie, which grossed $ 106m worldwide in 2015 — scores highly on amiable charm, sight gags and open goal word play; however, it lacks the nifty footwork and originality of the best Aardman pictures.

Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions of his sight gags, his subversions of standard comedic patterns, and his films» acute criticisms of American values.

And there are one - liners by the ton, shots at «Terminator» and «Avengers» and «The D.C. (comic book) Universe» and Professor Xavier's «Hogwarts» and «Robocop» and «Annie» and Wolverine and «Frozen» and Jared Kushner and Fox News and Batman, sight gags from «Say Anything» and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and X-Men and, um, oh Canada.

The script leans heavily on pop culture references — a plague of just about every recent comedy — but it isn't entirely lazy, with successful sight gags and one painfully realistic failed round of Celebrity.

It would be excusable if the one - liners and sight gags were actually, you know, funny, but having Optimus and his gang act like impatient 5 - year - olds and getting peed on by dogs is anything but.

In terms of the hilarious hijinks that ensue, Annie uses what she's only heard in movies to get some bad guys to the ground with a gun she doesn't think is real and later cares for a bullet wound with improvised drug - store items; Max makes a mess of a white dog and a shrine of photos inside a neighbor's home; and during the climactic showdown on an airplane tarmac, there is a very funny sight gag involving a very slow conveyor belt.

Except for a few individual lines and sight gags, a brilliantly over-the-top action - comedy sequence near the midsection, and some characteristically sharp performances (including the one by Brolin, who imbues what might've otherwise been a granite - jawed killer meathead with recognizable humanity) there's not much to fondly recall here.

The story is no grabber, and the sight gags are labored, but the animation is sleekly pretty, and it goes by painlessly enough.

They also get inspired laughs out of a couple of slow - percolating sight gags and, graphically, from queasy Max suffering a bullet wound.

But like the best work of Aardman, these touches or little sight gags take a back seat to the plot, and the film still works whatever age or however culture - literate you may be.

The skeleton characters allow animators to get creative with classic cartoon sight gags we rarely get in Pixar's work.

Cartoonish sight gags about being hit in the head and poked in the eyes are better in small doses before it starts becoming repetitive.

A bubbly, high - spirited paean to the joys of pharmaceutical phun that grooves to a throbbing beat but constantly trips over flat, prosaic dialogue and literal, lifeless sight gags.

An ungainly collection of one - liners and misdirected sight gags that hardly qualifies as a movie.

The situation allows a broad canvas for Knotts to react to sight gags with the special brand of eye - popping nervousness that made him a star.

The pace never lets up, and every time there's the slight chance of things getting a bit (ahem) po - faced (sorry), any hint of pomposity is deflated with a sight gag or some sharp dialogue.

Anchorman 2, which was written by Ferrell and McKay, is better when it gives in to absolute absurdity: A sight gag involving a slo - mo RV crash is totally, dismissively dumb, but the fact that it's set to Captain and Tennille's «Muskrat Love» makes it inexplicably hilarious.

Detective Dee makes its own place somewhere in - between, and the result is a thoroughly enjoyable adventure flick awash with kooky sight gags, some questionable CGI, and a few instances of honest to goodness suspense.

But it's not meant to be examined seriously; this throwaway movie, with its oddball cameos (among them Snoop Dogg, Andy Dick and Democrat pundit James Carville, who must be hard up for a gig these days) and fat - kid sight gags, is only after a laugh.

Not to say young audiences will be completely alienated — it has an accessible story, is just the right amount of scary and is littered with quirky characters and sight gags.

Even so, the singular comedy of Tati can be found all over the Monty Python's gleeful slapstick and complex sight gags.

On DVD, the Farrellys provide audio commentary for the film and 11 deleted scenes, ranging from seconds - long sight gags to longish, well - developed segments (some were cut because the film had built up too many melodramatic scenes back to back, the Farrellys note).

A third act car chase is well - paced and directed, and includes many of the sight gags reminiscent of silent comedies.

Refreshing, in these times, to find a spoof on a genre of films that isn't just a rattling off of pop culture references and obvious sight gags, though Shaun of the Dead is still a favorite for many audiences.

At one moment, it will toss up sight gags and quippy one - liners before weaving into a hardcore zombie thriller.

In part due to the tone Waititi helped cast over the proceedings and the script which leans heavier into sight gags and tete - a-tat quips and barbs, much of the responsibility lays on the delivery of the actors who all perform.

No one believes Eric when he says he's seen a «monkey,» even as slapstick disasters begin to threaten the hotel's ranking — as you might imagine, a series of loud nothings erupts around badly - timed sight gags and head - slapper slapstick.

A zany comedy stuffed to the brim with memorable characters, strange plot developments and absurd sight gags, Caddyshack freewheels its way from one silly scene to another, incidentally weaving a timeless tale about «the snobs versus the slobs» in the process.

For, the carefully - coordinated stunts in their new routine call for fairly explicit crotch cupping, crotch smelling, crotch rubbing and crotch raising opportunities, sight gags likely to elicit cheap laughs from heterosexuals who feel uneasy about the continuous close proximity of the boys» bodies.

Plenty of screwball comedy, slapstick, sight gags, stupid word play, and overall silliness is all you will get for the 85 minutes duration, where nothing is serious, not even the end credits.

Instead, it relies on a steady stream of biting one - liners and sight gags.

Being a Sam Raimi movie, there are a ton of sight gags that take amazing advantage of the 3D technology.

The ones that do are the ones you'll remember and there are at least a dozen of memorable sight gags and funny lines interspersed throughout Naked Gun 2 1/2 to make it worth the meager 85 minutes spent.

It is a stupid summer action movie, one with explosions and a premise that makes no sense and the occasional stupid sight gag.

Aside from a quick, one - shot sight gag involving Wilson and a bunch of balloons, on a trip to a zoo, Johnson overemphasizes the comedy and strains for the sentimental connection.