Sentences with phrase «mismatched buddy comedy»

Story and his four screenwriters don't exactly strain themselves to find a new angle in this mismatched buddy comedy.

The critical reception it got last year might not have predicted a sequel would be possible, but with $ 240 million in the bank worldwide, looks like we will see a follow - up to the mismatched buddy comedy of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in Daddy's Home.

Not exact matches

The Heat plays with clichés from a long line of mismatched buddy cop comedies, and it's as good as any in the genre's pantheon.

For a while, we could be watching a twisted mismatched - buddy comedy, one about an uptight do - gooder under both social and financial obligation to tolerate the off - putting tactlessness of this strange girl from her past.

You'll be tempted to call it a «buddy comedy», but that label typically applies to mismatched pairs connected by circumstance à la Midnight Run and Rush Hour.

And thank goodness, because this is a fine addition to his mismatched buddy action comedy canon.

Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.

It's a mismatched - buddy comedy.

Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be, sometimes playing like a wacky farce, sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest, sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched buddy road - trip comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.