Sentences with phrase «mass as a comedy»

The film works in fits and starts but rarely reaches critical mass as a comedy.

Not exact matches

However, it was her supporting turn in the R - rated comedy Bridesmaids that brought her a taste of mass adulation as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

On this scale, soap opera and comedy skit bytes can only go so far, and Infinity War manages a succession of double - page - spread awe that sells the cosmic saga: a marvellous trompe l'oeil shot as a camera move reveals the sorry state of Thanos's rebel adoptive daughter Nebula, the by - now - obligatory mass urban destructions and battles with monster hordes on open planes, and gorgeously imaginative outer - space vistas.

The comedy rolls over as the police refuse to accept there's a mass murderer on the loose, instead deeming the deaths an «accident».

Rampage (PG - 13 for violence, mass destruction, brief profanity and obscene gestures) Dwayne Johnson and Naomie Harris co-star in this action comedy as scientists who save the day when three animals mutated into monsters decimate the Windy City in the wake of a genetic experiment gone terribly awry.

Oliver Stone's controversial comedy, which follows two mass murderers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), remains as black as ever.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

«But let's be positive, and express it as a wish for the film - going masses: May this century never see a stupider comedy.

Tsugio's parents are typical Tezuka comedy types: his father is an inventor who doesn't invent so much as create weapons of mass destruction and his mother who defines a loving, cheerful, crushing, husband basher.

A mix of cartoons, huddled masses, and street comedy, it begins and ends on the New York waterfront, where a forlorn creature first sets out and then packs up her totemic wares, as if uncertain whether her space invasion had found a welcome.

Using silkscreened mass media images, he also produced a series of illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, creating 38 Inferno drawings as a modern accompaniment to Dante and Virgil's journey through hell, substituting his own heroes - like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning - for Dante's characters.

Atherton has used the art gallery as «theatre» to question art and the artist «performer» relative to the wider cultural influences of mass entertainment, including the performer in vaudeville or stand - up comedy.

As Reich argued back in the 1930s, «If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.»