Sentences with phrase «most romantic comedies do»

When: March 22nd Why: Despite its sitcomy premise, «Admission» has one thing going for it that most romantic comedies don't: Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, she was inspired by the 2010 romantic comedy Date Night, in which Tina Fey and Steve Carell actually have the kind of date night most of us don't want to have!

As the days get darker and the nights grow colder, one of the most blissful things you can do this time of year is to spend the evening watching a classic romantic - comedy film.

I like most music, the usual soaps period dramas and romantic / comedy films I do not like horror but will watch any.

Most people assume that dating is something teens and young adults do, dating for seniors sounds like something out of a romantic comedy, not reality.

As the days get darker and the nights grow colder, one of the most blissful things you can do this time of year is to spend the evening watching a classic romantic - comedy movie.

Beginning where most romantic comedies usually end, you can't fault «The Five - Year Engagement» for trying to deliver a fresh take on the genre, but although it boasts some really funny moments, like most Judd Apatow productions, the movie doesn't know when enough is enough.

For the most part, in the projects that he scripted or co-scripted, he unveiled a propensity for a lightly satirical take on American life.From a qualitative standpoint, Fleming did much to cement his reputation with his much different follow up to Bad Dreams, the 1994 Threesome, a critically favored Gen - X romantic comedy (which the director also scripted) about a ménage - a-trois that «accidentally» transpires in an all - male dorm when a sexy young woman named Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) is mistaken for a young man.

Like most Apatow productions, Forgetting Sarah Marshall runs a bit long for a romantic comedy, and given that most of the film centers around a familiar plot that doesn't take that much effort to relate, it's easy to have winnowed down a few lulls for a more potent comedy.

For the most part, I got what I expected, but what I didn't prepare for was a romantic comedy that was not romantic 65 % of the time, but instead genuinely deep and layered with a lot more anger than most comedies out there today (similar to The Heartbreak Kid).

Most romantic comedies follow a safe pattern that is easily recognizable to the core audience who doesn't want to think and just wants to escape.

As directed by veteran Norman Jewison (Agnes of God, Rollerball), this is an ensemble comedy that relies on good cast chemistry and charm for most of its laughs, and along those lines, the on - screen charisma does make for an enjoyable romantic comedy for most audiences.

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

Not only is this a romantic comedy that is done right, but the story is able to balance the humor with some really nice moments of drama and most importantly, heart.

This is hardly the most promising premise for a romantic comedy, but damned if Warm Bodies — directed by Jonathan Levine and adapted from the novel by Isaac Marion — doesn't somehow bring it to life.

However, despite the fact that there is a lack of freshness in the main plot, Buying the Cow did one thing which most other romantic comedies rarely do nowadays.

So light, in fact, it still confuses me how it's the runaway smash it is, but it does a lot of things right that so many romantic comedies, and even most comedies in general, fail to do.

Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others), who adapted the screenplay (based on the French film Anthony Zimmer) with Christopher McQuarrie and Julian Fellowes (or maybe he just did the last rewrites in a long - gestating development process), makes Venice look like the most gorgeous city on Earth and shoots Jolie with the same admiring, idealizing perspective, but has no facility for light comedy, romantic sizzle or breathtaking action.

The Big Sick is a great romantic comedy that reminds even the most pessimistic viewer that rom - coms are not dead and when done right, they're just, you know, comedies that are also romantic.