For children it provides goofy, lovable characters and childish potty humor, while for adults it also offers
meta jokes about modern society or of the film itself.
And 3), it makes a clever
meta joke about the way videogames move you on rails through set pieces.
Not exact matches
We don't know whether he ever actually had a shot, but one can only imagine the type of
meta jokes Wade could have made
about Lang's awesomely cowardly cowboy in Tombstone.
At one point, Nick
jokes about movies that are made
about people who don't do much, a
meta - reference to the film itself, but even urban ennui and marital apathy have been captured with more do - nothing honesty than Perry achieves here.
That's
about the funniest line in the movie, and it's a bit of a
meta -
joke.
Worse still are the
meta jokes were a character makes an off - hand comment
about a cliche or a problem with game design while the game makes you do that exact thing over and over.
It's hard to tell whether they're there to lengthen the game, to irritate the player or whether they're some kind of «
meta»
joke about retro games playing dirty — whatever the case, they almost compelled us to throw the controller a few times.