Sentences with phrase «of a slapstick farce»

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In the vein of «us poor guys against those rich s.o.b.s» begun with Animal House comes this slapstick laden farce of the same hijinks on a snobby golf course.

Considering the almost compulsively static aesthetic of Allen's recent output, it's hard to believe that the director could ever have made such a frenetic slapstick farce as Take the Money and Run.

Though elements of the Zhang style are readily evident — chiefly the ravishing cinematography (by frequent collaborator Zhao Xiaoding) and a color palette so rich you could eat it for dessert — the movie, entitled A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, is a less harmonious hybrid, one that shoehorns elements of broad farce and slapstick into the Coens» meticulous tale of lust, deception, and murder.

Alas, Binder tries to tread the line between philosophy and farce, satire and slapstick, and with so many contrasting story devices, the imbalance of mood finally does the film in as a potentially intelligent piece of entertainment.

It's not a feature or even a short, per se, more of an experiment shot to accompany a production of the theater farce «Too Much Johnson,» but at least the first section plays just fine on its own as a tribute to silent slapstick comedy with Joseph Cotten doing Harold Lloyd antics and Buster Keaton chases as a serial philanderer pursued by a jealous husband.

I know this is a slapstick farce, with aspirations to follow in the broad comedy tradition of a «National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation» or even the first «Home Alone.»

Verbinski on the other hand, has had a versatile career that has taken in huge Hollywood blockbuster franchises in the form of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, slapstick farce in MOUSEHUNT, and horror in the remake of THE RINof PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, slapstick farce in MOUSEHUNT, and horror in the remake of THE RINOF THE CARIBBEAN, slapstick farce in MOUSEHUNT, and horror in the remake of THE RINof THE RING.

That air is reinforced by the aspects of farce, comedy of manners, and even a little slapstick that continually make themselves felt.

If this brings to mind images of pie - throwing slapstick farce, relax, that's not what it was all about.