Sentences with phrase «movie slapstick»

Director Paul King taps into silent movie slapstick to create a funny, charming, highly entertaining film.

The Farrelly brothers return to the vacuously silly style of Dumb and Dumber for this gently idiotic comedy that recreates the iconic knucklehead trio that epitomised movie slapstick from the 1930s to the 1970s.

The film is a buddy action comedy in the vein of «The In - Laws» and «Midnight Run,» with a splash of 1930s movie slapstick.

Not exact matches

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

The first Iron Man movie is, among other things, a very enjoyable romantic comedy with a healthy dose of slapstick.

In conclusion this book is equal parts superhero movie; cutting - edge satire on the price of Internet fame; biting commentary on fanboy culture; and slapstick comedy this is easily David Wong's finest effort.

The movie's got everything from slapstick comedy, to jack - in - the - box spooks, to 17 - year - old Wynona Rider wearing gothic - black attire and it was an essential starting point for many of Hollywood's finest working artists today.

Though the movie begins like one of those wretched Robin Williams Disney comedies (and is dotted with bits of broken slapstick), it leverages the nastiness that has always underlaid his inexhaustible ingratiation.

If the film has only one note to play, it plays it with a certain slapstick panache, landing closer to Reservoir Dogs than The Boondock Saints on the quality spectrum of movies about loquacious lowlifes with itchy trigger fingers.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

Yep, this is Aardman's first sports movie, filtered through director Park's specific sensibility of slapstick foolishness, with deadpan animal sidekicks, endless puns and actors like Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall and Miriam Margolyes having a lovely time lending their voices to his buck - toothed, beady - eyed Plasticine characters.

Of course, a Batman movie is nothing without a Bruce Wayne, and, by a mile, Bale is the best of a lot that has ranged from the square - jawed slapstick of Adam West to the more dedbonair stylings of Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney.

This movie will please young kids with its stupid cat and mouse slapstick humor, but others will not find it funny.

The film tries to pack in a little bit too much in its running time, and there isn't a comedic moment until well into the film, a strange choice in a movie for kids, but The Wild Life has its moments of charm, hilarity, and slapstick that worked really well.

Like this summer's other slapstick cause célèbre, «Pineapple Express,» it's a comedy with as high or higher a body count as the movies it purports to be parodying, and the problem isn't the violence per se but rather the fact that neither movie ever finds a satisfactory balance between tongue - in - cheek and guts - in - hand.

Honestly, if you think this is the best kung fu movie ever made, your brain will explode if you watch Drunken Master the original and there are a lot better kung fu movies than that, that don't constantly resort to slapstick without a moment of seriousness.

It's a spoof movie and so your sense of humor really has to be based on word play, sarcasm, and a love of stupid slapstick.

Actually, it's like watching something other than a movie, like a bunch of bad acting, cheesy dialogue and laughably crap special effects, and like this kind of slapstick childish unfunny type of humour, all exploded

Actually, it's like watching something other than a movie, like a bunch of bad acting, cheesy dialogue and laughably crap special effects, and like this kind of slapstick childish unfunny type of humour, all exploded onto your screen!!!! It's a bit like something you'd see on Disney Channel, like in the same league as Lizzie McGuire.

Not only does he genuinely look like Charlie but he manages to mimic the moves, walk, facial expressions and even the comedic slapstick Charlie amazed us with in his movies.

Like Palka's mom - dog, the movie is a mess, clicking back and forth between shadowy horror, suburban melodrama, and the kind of slapstick family comedy in which I half - expected Eddie Murphy to burst through the front door in a fat suit.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

Under the cover of slapstick, cheap laughs, raunchy humor, gross - out physical comedy and sheer exploitation, Get Him to the Greek also is fundamentally a sound movie.

The catch is, they pretty much either need to be a Will Ferrell movie or a Leslie Nielsen slapstick.

Of course, the usual slapstick humour of the LEGO games is there to soften some of the most scary / violent sections of the movies.

Now sixty years old, Martin still has a knack for broad physical humor, and a timing that serves him well during the movie's many instances of over-the-top slapstick.

Mr. Bean's Holiday (PG for mild epithets) Rowan Atkinson reprises his role as the incomparably accident - prone bumbling Brit for a slapstick - driven misadventure meandering from London to Paris to Cannes during which he is suspected of kidnapping, creates havoc on a movie set, and finds romance with a beautiful young actress (Emma de Caunes).

Before they reteam for next year's all - female «Ghostbusters», «Bridesmaids» director Paul Feig and his regular muse Melissa McCarthy pastiche the «Bourne» - style espionage movie in this slapstick action flick.

I'm really looking forward to this movie, especially since this TV spot shows the jokes won't just be foul language and slapstick.

This is a classic screwball comedy made brand new, exactly the kind of movie Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges and Grant and Gable and Hepburn would be making today, with hysterical gags, slapstick moments, perfect timing, and dialogue so sharp it leaves teeth marks.

And the movie succeeds in two different ways: It's sweet and good - hearted, and then again it's raucous slapstick and bathroom humor.

Action movie blow - ups are interlaced with dumb jokes and slapstick.

Will this movie, playing to young viewers who don't know the Stooges at all, look off - puttingly old - fashioned or so bizarrely slapstick - intense that it seems as up - to - the - minute in its comedy as anything from Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell?

Just when you think that Snowpiercer has settled into a Hollywood action movie rhythm, up pops some slapstick humour.

His very early movies were great fun and laid in the tradition of American slapstick like «The Three Stooges «and The Marx Brothers, and afterwards he changed course and made some extremely profound films in the 60s and 70s.

When Aki Kaurismaki, Finland's deadpan farceur of minimalist slapstick, absurdist comedy and bruised romanticism, teamed up with the aggressively eccentric rock and roll cover band Leningrad Cowboys, a mix of bar band performance, punk attitude and polka flourishes, to make the surreal rock and roll road movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America, who knew it would be the beginning of a surreal collaborative friendship?

Before they reteam for next year's all - female Ghostbusters, Bridesmaids director Paul Feig and his regular muse Melissa McCarthy pastiche the Bourne - style espionage movie in this slapstick action flick.

Unrequited childhood loves and blinding grudges, brutal outbursts and sudden slapstick, music, movies, and poetry, A Christmas Tale ties it all together in a marvelously messy package.

As well as being a laugh out loud slapstick comedy rendered in gorgeous Lego visuals and crammed with DC Easter eggs and visual jokes, The Lego Batman Movie is one of the best character studies of the Dark Knight out there.

And the director favors broad and slapstick a bit too often throughout the movie, which also seems to never want to end (it easily runs about 15 - 20 minutes too long).

A Hard Day — Somewhere the dominant strain of the crime movie genre morphed from Woovian tales of moral codes in unjust societies (ala A Better Tomorrow) to Rube Goldberg narratives driven by slapstick escalations of violence.

And Jones» Briggs seems like he wandered in from a different movie — a slapstick, saloon comedy.

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See it cropping up in the character of Drew's widowed mother: in a flurry of manic energy after her husband's passing, Hollie (Susan Sarandon) proceeds to improve herself by learning stand - up comedy and tap - dancing — anything that will allow for slapstick comic whimsy (in learning to fix a car, the hood falls on her and she kicks her legs hysterically), which becomes as deadly as cancer during an ill - considered eulogy at a memorial service that stands as one of the most painful moments in movies this year.

While the story isn't particularly original, and the movie tends to drift over the top into broad slapstick, this comedy wins us over due to the camaraderie between the characters.

There are so many movies that examine and portray parenting and it often comes across as slapstick.

Yet it also positions itself as a family movie through and through, with its broad narrative and simplistic slapstick.

The movie has a lot of slapstick party humor and most of it is pretty rote stuff.

This brilliant pastiche of the Hollywood action movie is brought to you by the same team as Shaun Of The Dead, and has the same mix of silly one - liners, slapstick and spoofery.

It's not slapstick, but you can't take yourself too seriously when the superhero of the movie shrinks down to the size of an ant and has ants that he can manipulate to help him out.