Sentences with phrase «not pure comedy»

It's not pure comedy, but there is an unmistakable dark sense of humor that has defined Roth's previous work.

Not exact matches

Also the article read like pure comedy gold, I'm surprised the judge didn't file for misconduct against apple's lawyer.

Topher - logic isn't logic in the traditional sense, it's much closer to pure comedy.

Those trying to nail down Pure Comedy are bound to get frustrated, because Tillman is not interested in things that can be easily nailed down.

And speaking of information overload, I was SO unprepared to hear about the liquid gold of breast milk called, colostrum?!! Not sure how that related to baby products, but in looking back, the whole experience was just pure comedy

In pushing the film into gonzo - style comedy instead of melodrama or pure docudrama, Gillespie successfully navigates a very tricky line — this is, after all, a story filled with domestic abuse and violence, something that shouldn't be played for laughs but is also not the focus of the story.

While not quite funny enough to cut it as pure comedy, nor emotionally probing enough to be a great drama, The Players is still a pleasingly frank and, at times, guiltily daft take on a very sticky subject.

There isn't much to recommend Wasabi except for the offbeat mix of over-the-top humor and overly stylized action, and taken as a pure entertainment kind of film, it'll please most audiences who like French action - comedies.

Williams does deliver on energy, but he has never really possessed a true talent for broadly physical comedy, and as scene after scene roll by, you'll probably find it impossible not to scratch your head and wonder why the man that can ad - lib classic comedic moments on stage and on late night talk shows can't seem to inject even one laugh in nearly two hours of pure comedy that he has worked on for weeks.

Baby Driver isn't as much of a pure comedy as the Cornetto Trilogy or Scott Pilgrim (though there are some great laughs throughout), but it is certainly the apex of his action work.

Veep redirects the crackling verbal fireworks of The West Wing from Aaron Sorkin's liberal high dudgeon to the pure cynicism of likability indices, brand images, news cycles, and gaffes, and the comedy comes off because it's The West Wing, not Veep, that now seems like the Hollywood fantasy.

Lines, squares, and circles that become a laughing face (or not) constitute a narrow divide between pure form and concrete figure, between seriousness and comedy, between the universal and the particular.