Thanks to a script full of clever comebacks and put - downs, the Four Horsemen themselves (Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, and Dave Franco) have just enough spark and personality to keep «Now You See Me» afloat through
its more ridiculous plot twists.
Not exact matches
The main
plot is already
ridiculous enough, but when you really deconstruct this film as a whole, the sub-plots are even
more outlandish than the film itself.
If this would have been a slightly longer feature, with a bit
more depth to its sheer
ridiculous plot, then Blood Car would really have been a great horror comedy.
As she explains her new «do to boyfriend and protector Four (Theo James, whose maturity and manliness nicely offsets the
plot's
more ridiculous turns), «I wanted something different.»
That's a
ridiculous excuse to get the leads in drag, but to be fair, it's no
more ridiculous than any other
plot in the Big Momma series.
The
plot is terribly clichéd, the action sequences aren't very exciting, and though Cage's performance is definitely
more restrained than usual, Lucas makes up for it with one of the year's most
ridiculous villains.
And the
plot gets even
more ridiculous from there.
Writer - director Alexandre Aja (Break of Dawn, Furia) probably hopes they all can't think or see through
ridiculous gaping
plot holes either, because High Tension is nothing
more than scene after scene of sensationalism, followed by a completely needless (and vastly overused) twist that makes an already moronic, highly derivative movie abysmally absurd.
The
ridiculous plot of the game involves Ryu's trademark weapon, the Dragon Sword, being magically absorbed into his right arm, transforming it into a marginally
more evil arm.
Compound that with a fairly
ridiculous plot and a final shot that somehow leaves the impression that an adequate ending was never quite able to be conveyed, and Simon's film turns from a sure crowd - pleaser to one that can irk if you aren't in the mindset to accept it as just a piece of fluff entertainment and nothing
more.
In his new role, it's up to Birdman to find a way to remove the President from office before everyone starts to worry it's
more than the
ridiculous plot to an animated show.
While the overall gameplay has taken clear strides for the better, the package is underscored by a series of minor to major nuisances — not the least of which being a story prone to
ridiculous plot twists — leaving it less a series reboot and
more one missed opportunity after another.
Once you find out just what's going on, you'll probably laugh at all of the absurd ways Rowan Joffe (The American, 28 Weeks Later), who is not very faithfully adapting the novel by S.J. Watson, has to contort the
plot in order to get us all the way to the
ridiculous climax that is supposed to be exciting and revelatory, when all of the while it is quite depressing and only raises
more questions than answers.
A lot of animated kids» films fall into the trap of using
ridiculous plot contrivances just to shore up a simplistic message — but Frozen has the courage to be a bit
more messy, so that by the time you get to an ending that does bring everything together, it feels less like a final
plot hammer descending and
more like a real resolution.
In his new role, Birdman must find a way to remove the President from office before everyone starts to worry it's
more than the
ridiculous plot to an animated show.
Even
more impressive is how the
plot actually makes you care about these characters; unlike the intro / outro clipshows most fighting games have to offer, MKX's story bothers to include things like character development and heartfelt moments in between all the
ridiculous action.
The
plot can feel a bit cluttered, and with all the
ridiculous goings - on around Bayonetta, it gets even
more lost.