Sentences with word «nebbish»

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, nebbish loser - scientist Hector Hammond (Peter Saarsgard doing that mega-creep thing he does so well) begins to run mildly amok after being infected by a vestige of power from the being that killed Jordan's predecessor, an alien force called Parallax (voiced by Clancy Brown) who feeds on fear, devours entire planets, and has its sights set on both Earth and Oa (in that order).

Does she save Cary Grant's nebbish character from monotony — or is their pairing just... funny?

It's true that the hoity - toity Watson never convinces us that Hermione is meant to be with the second - banana nebbish Ron (Grint), but that was one of Rowling's more arbitrary plot turns.

Eisenberg offers up his usual nebbish personality as the perpetual fish out of water.

Set in an America that has been overrun by fast - moving undead, the film follows four survivors: Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a neurotic nebbish; Tallahassee, a kick - ass, macho zombie slayer (Woody Harrelson); Wichita (Emma Stone); and her 12 - year - old sister, Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).

by Walter Chaw Casting Albert Brooks as the prototypical nebbish and Michael Douglas as a testosterone - geeked maniac is almost too easy, but given a vehicle like The In - Laws, with this much heat invested in its direction, the casting doesn't seem so much lazy as inspired.

First, there is the cosmic leap that must be made to believe in a particular kind of nebbish older male as being irresistible to young women.

Lovable nebbish Jim (Jason Biggs) is getting married to sweetheart Michelle (Alyson Hannigan, who doesn't appear to be a freak until the cameras roll; see also: Keanu Reeves), while trying to keep the fact of the nuptials from depraved nitwit Stifler (Seann William Scott, still working on that audition tape for Jackass).

by Walter Chaw Ten feet tall and covered in blue and purple fur, James «Sully» Sullivan (voiced by John Goodman) is the leading scarer at Monsters, Inc. and best friend to his «handler / assistant,» a green nebbish of a cyclops named Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal).

Any women that'll let a short saddle oxford wearing nebbish work his way into her heart, boy howdy, that's a gal for me!

There's Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), who starts the picture at the wake by banging the only 19 - year - old caterer in the world familiar with «Laugh In»; fat Sam (Kevin Smith), who references Star Wars and is a giant goofball (double natch); and nebbish Dennis (Sam Jaeger), who harbours a secret crush on Gray but, hey, so does everybody, since Gray has fairies and butterflies flying out of her vagina.

Charlie's brother (a character with no correlative in real life) Donald (Cage again, in the finest twin performance since Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers) is cocksure and woman-wise to Charlie's twitchy self - loathing in a way that reminds of the swinger / nebbish iteration of the Jekyll / Hyde interplay.

Remove Branagh's calculated nebbish nonsense, and what remains is a virulent commentary on the film's titular culture, and a smattering of scenes that stand up well enough on their own.

The silky, inflected tones of Scarlett Johansson as a Siri - ish Operating System allow her owner, nebbish Joaquin Phoenix in a moustache, to fall in love and proceed from there.

Buscemi burlesques this hard - headed boss as an antsy, anxious nebbish, able to fawn, while trusting no one.

Michael Stuhlbarg, primarily known as A Serious Man's put - upon nebbish Larry Gopnik and gangster Arnold Rothstein on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, splits the difference between those two roles to create something hypnotically transfixing.

The actual plot, when the film isn't showcasing fake bare breasts or body fluids shooting out of orifices, involves nebbish Ed Waxman (Fehr, Childstar) getting cruelly jilted by his philandering girlfriend.

Paul (played by Josh Pais), on the other hand, is the opposite of likeable, an annoying nebbish who prefers solitude to human interaction and squelches the ambitions of his dental assistant daughter, Jenny (played by Ellen Page), for his own selfish purposes.

And, as Mark's older brother Dave, Mark Ruffalo has smoothed out all his likable nebbish tics to portray a bulked - up, balding family guy whose heavy - set normality belies a mental keenness.

Either way, Tennant enlivens Darwin with an endearing nebbish nature, as he's just one determined geek who just wants to win over a girl.

In case you missed your first opportunity last week to see Henry Cavill as Clark Kent on the set of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, we know have a much clearer look at the actor in his more nebbish form.

Henry Bevan on the modern teen movie... Jerky jocks; nebbish nerds; the girl next door who is unfairly called a whore; the hot girl; the bitchy cheerleader; the ugly girl who's actually a swan; the self - loathing teachers; teachers who sleep with students; teachers who are bad at their jobs; crowded school corridors; cool kids who -LSB-...]

Every frame has a ready - made, natural shimmer that communicates Allen's love affair with the cinema, however one responds to a narrative about displaced nebbish Bobby Dorfman (Allen soundalike Jesse Eisenberg), who falls hard for LA glamour girl Vonnie (a radiant Kristen Stewart), a one - time Nebraskan who by the final credits has against the odds become Bobby's aunt.

Love that somewhat nebbish narrator and Disney - like music.

She will play the fiancé of Stu, Ed Helms» nebbish character.

He arrives at FIFA resembling nothing so much as a nebbish, insecure encyclopedia salesman and he never seems to really grow into his suits.

McCarthy, never the type of performer to tamp down her own charisma, jackhammers viewers with geniality as Deanna Miles, a suburban mother who, just as she's dropping off her daughter, Maddie (Molly Gordon), for her senior year in college, is flatly told by her nebbish husband, Dan (Matt Walsh), that he wants a divorce.

A brutal nightmarish exploitation prison movie where Vince Vaughn, once a nebbish comedian, apes badass Charles Bronson.

Royce soon discovers that several other killers have just undergone the same disorienting trip, including a U.S. soldier (Alice Braga), a Cartel enforcer (Danny Trejo), a member of the yakuza (Louis Ozawa Changchien), a convicted sociopath (Walton Goggins), and a nebbish and seemingly out - of - place academic who yelps like Kermit the frog (Topher Grace, of course).

And when a trapped Ned dials 911, wolves massing at his French doors, to whine that he's being stalked by «coyotes,» you feel Friedkin's fractious personality pointing through, passing judgment on the nebbish.

Ellen Page stars as the titular Juno McGuff, a Soupy Sales - referencing sixteen - year - old who finds herself pregnant by her nebbish boyfriend, Bleeker (Michael Cera).

Not how it brings down a psychotic slob and his nebbish buddy — all of it.

But just when you start to worry that «Marshall» is about to settle into a repetitious groove, with a know - it - all hero solving a nebbish's problems, the full force of the town's majority starts to weigh on the duo, freighting their work with paranoia and fear of violence.

He's a nebbish, a hustler, a finagler, a lapel - grabber — clingy, needy, and obviously full of it.

Allen seems both intrigued and repulsed by all the glamour and never keeps a consistent tone, just as his leading man stumbles trying to achieve coherence, seemingly alternating in every other scene from nebbish, stuttering clown to passive - aggressive bully to suave sophisticate.

Pat, the would - be leader of the group, comes across as a nebbish.

The nebbish storyteller continues to disprove those who deem him washed up and past his prime.

It lacks many of the things normally associated with his work — New York, a nebbish lead, a tidy resolution — and even the web of romantic entanglements feels more like something out of a telenovela than a typical drama.

As is customary for a Brooks film, your mileage will vary as to how funny you find his nebbish, self - conscious humor.

His looks, body type, and demeanor don't seem to match up with the sensitive, nebbish, and feckless character of the lonely scientist that he portrays.

Maybe someday Woody Allen will assemble the cast of his dreams and make a movie starring Ron Rifkin, Bob Balaban, David Cross, Austin Pendleton, each representing another facet of nebbish.

Alexander plays Michael Makeshift, a nebbish loser who can't seem to do anything right.

Zach Braff (Garden State, «Scrubs») voices Chicken Little, a nebbish young chick that gets himself into an embarrassing situation for himself and his doting father, Buck (Garry Marshall, A League of Their Own), by telling the town that the sky is falling.