Sentences with phrase «mostly falls flat»

Mirror Mirror - The more comedic of the year's two big Snow White movies mostly falls flat.

Despite a tacked - on framing device that mostly falls flat, Kevin Hart: What Now?

It's a messy hodgepodge of half - baked ideas and tongue - in - cheek references that mostly fall flat.

These spin - offs have mostly fallen flat for Zelda fans eager for a fresh experience in the world of Hyrule, with the main entries coming on top and always leaving fans wanting more.

Not exact matches

To keep a mostly - black look from falling flat, I like to mix in different textures.

You know that I'm mostly into flat, sporty and chunky shoes but... I recently fell in love with the sock boot.

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

The only thing missing would be an artificial laugh track since the jokes are abundant, yet fall flat while mostly trying to anchor themselves in sex and flamboyant cultural stereotypes.

That mostly helped me to make my way through this open world RPG with a spring in my step, even when bugs and crashes threatened to spoil the experience, and the story fell flat and the sidequests became repetitive.

There are flashes of wit — mostly tied to Greta Gerwig's airy turn as an amateur self - help guru — but running gags about suicide and anal sex fall painfully flat, and once the movie's minor charms are exhausted, it simply grinds.

The writing is the biggest problem, mostly because it tries to inject some emotional melancholy into the proceedings when its not directly aping the first movie; since the show's wit is dulled and these actors are no Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone or Abigail Breslin, these scenes fall flat and are completely unearned.

«Coco» is a joyous feature that mostly hits all its notes, and even the ones that fall a bit flat are not worth carping over.

The story this film is based on is truly remarkable and showcases some remarkably brave men, and although the film mostly honors the efforts by these men, it ultimately falls flat.

On the other hand, adjusted operating profit (of EUR 15.0 million) was up an astonishing 18 %, but this was flattered by some exceptional 2012 expenses (mostly bonus payments)-- I estimate underlying operating profit fell marginally, which still amounts to an excellent performance.

Stocks ended last week mostly flat, falling slightly on Friday after the major U.S. indexes set new record highs on Thursday on positive earnings surprises.

There's an occasional effort to flesh out his backstory and make him more relatable, but it falls mostly flat because it simply has no emotional range to it.

For the first few hours the humour is all over the place, only occasionally hitting the sweet spot, but mostly just falling flat on its face with crude jokes and sometimes irritating dialog.

The main antagonist of the story is a bear named Frank, he oozes and evil villain demeanor that is mostly spoiled by jokes that fall flat.

One story section that tries to evoke the same ideals of equality falls flat, mostly because it's genuinely hard to believe that in the moment, these conversations actually happened.

Flat shoes are still on trend on the runways, though for fall, of course, they're mostly knee - high boots.

I was challenged recently as to how many years of mostly flat or falling measurments I (= the public) should wait for this «upturn».