Sentences with phrase «of amusing characters»

This novel has a cast of amusing characters, a plot with a few surprises and is filled with wonderful prose like: «A passing car sent its searchlight - glare crazy and liquid over the sides of the buildings and into the trees, revealing not the colours, the daylight solidity of things, but a world of dark gaps cut from an empty skin of light».

While some of the poems suffer in translation, the idea of a street with a cast of amusing characters does not.

At first glance, those obsessed with the night sky or astronomical concerns are played for laughs: in New York City and its nearby boroughs, a cast of amusing characters with thick regional accents illustrate that we can no longer even see the stars from the island of Manhattan.

Marvel has handed the keys to the kingdom to New Zealand director Taika Waititi, who with his trio of writers unearths plenty of amusing character riffs, capitalizing especially on Thor and Loki's squabbling fraternal ties.

A foul - mouthed send - up of testosterone - infused, small - budgeted»80s action flicks, MacGruber is more of a functional than revelatory success — its script doesn't really substantially or satisfyingly delve into a number of amusing character defects it sets up for its self - involved hero.

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But a lack of deeper characters and bolder political observation means that, unlike election night, it's an amusing evening, if nothing more.

These set of ethically challenged and chronically convoluted characters will not stop to amuse me.

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The 40 Year - Old Virgin is a buoyantly clever and amusing comedy full of fresh gags about porn and speed dating, yet it has the wit to present its title character's dilemma as a projection of all our romantic anxieties.

I understood the general outlines of the story, I liked the bold strokes he uses to create the characters, and I was amused by the camera work, which includes a lot of shots that are about themselves.

His «Mr. Chow» character is one of the movie's more amusing components, so it's interesting to check out his improv moments.

Ana Ofelia Murguia coaxes some genuinely earned tears as Miguel's fading great - grandmother Mama Coco (the de facto title character); over in the Land of the Dead, Gael Garcia Bernal amuses as the seemingly carefree Hector, who serves as Miguel's resourceful tour guide.

The controls don't have a steep learning curve, the music is well done, even though I think this was the game's main weakness (I would have brought in Ennio Morricone for it), the characters are full of life (and if you have friends similar to Irish, it makes it all the more amusing), the side missions are mixed in difficulty and can happen anytime you're out on your horse or for a walk.

The game is packed full of humour, challenging puzzles, and an amusing pair of lead characters.

Established first as an object of scorn, the humorless Gary comes to be a sympathetic character whose amusing idiosyncrasies endear him to us and his neighbors.

Not even the lease bit amusing or entertaining, The Nutcracker attempts to pull a entertain but ultimately fails because of It's obtuse story lousy characters.

Some of the supporting characters are — «Yep» — mildly amusing, but even a chuckle didn't escape me.

A hit - and - miss affair that deals in a sporadically amusing fashion with many of the mundane (and a few not - so - mundane) tribulations of long - term monogamy in marriage, The Overnight is short enough not to overstay its welcome but too short to effectively develop the characters and their situations.

He has no better idea of how to stage action than anyone else in the Marvel cinematic universe, but he excels at capturing believable interactions between characters, mixing believable dramatics with comic exchanges that are consistently amusing.

Sheepish, charming, boyish, scary, this unelectable lawmaker is a piece of work, and watching other characters respond to him, particularly those in the black community, gives the film a very amusing edge.

Despite a strong sense of its characters, however, Kelly rarely generates much melodramatic or amusing momentum.

The screenplay, by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost, gives each of the characters something worthwhile to do and something amusing to say, and when its various strands are tied together in time for the momentous finale, even the most superhero - wary viewers will have smiles on their faces.

Green Wing follows thirteen main characters through the daily life of one of the world's most amusing hospitals.

Of the reams of on - set trivia concerning Rebel, one of the more amusing tidbits involves Dean's quickie in - joke impression of cartoon character Mr. Magoo — whose voice was, of course, supplied by Jim Backus, who played Jimmy's fatheOf the reams of on - set trivia concerning Rebel, one of the more amusing tidbits involves Dean's quickie in - joke impression of cartoon character Mr. Magoo — whose voice was, of course, supplied by Jim Backus, who played Jimmy's fatheof on - set trivia concerning Rebel, one of the more amusing tidbits involves Dean's quickie in - joke impression of cartoon character Mr. Magoo — whose voice was, of course, supplied by Jim Backus, who played Jimmy's fatheof the more amusing tidbits involves Dean's quickie in - joke impression of cartoon character Mr. Magoo — whose voice was, of course, supplied by Jim Backus, who played Jimmy's fatheof cartoon character Mr. Magoo — whose voice was, of course, supplied by Jim Backus, who played Jimmy's fatheof course, supplied by Jim Backus, who played Jimmy's father.

The performances are yet again on the same level as pantomime theatre with lots of shouting, Gilmore Girls - style rapid dialogue and characters making «amusing» asides to themselves.

Lucy is a highly amusing and likable character, but the AVL and the detail's of Gru's mission are tough to track.

It feels like a small town with a lot of history, and to watch Downey Jr.'s character continuously run into it around every corner is amusing and reminiscent.

The movie also features a number of great character actors in early roles, including David Paymer and Ed Begley Jr., although none do so much with so little as James Hong, who shines in an amusing sequence as the co-pilot of a puddle jumper transporting Vince and Sheldon to Central America.

The game is grindy, and while the novelty of playing with a goofy character like the dice throwing Rio can be hilarious, and there are some similarly amusing dialog sequences, the game will quickly become tedious.

It helps that the script (written by Showalter and Laura Terruso) is immediately hilarious, hitting the audience with a plethora of amusing bits of oddball character traits right away, peppering in hilarious day dream sequences where Doris explores her fantasies over John at the office in very awkward fashion.

It's more amusing if you imagine Slater and Mathis as their characters from «Pump Up the Volume» now trapped in a life of civil service.

Sadly though, the character wears thin almost immediately, with his queasy sense of humor starting off mildly amusing at best, before becoming intolerable by the end of the overlong nearly two hour running time.

That way, you can fully appreciate not only the superb ending but also the appearance of numerous returning characters whose predicaments are made even more amusing by your knowledge of them from previous encounters.

The filmmaker mostly restricts himself to two creepily chic and multi-planed settings and to five principle characters, grooving on York's majestic presence while amusing himself with virtuosic nesting - doll imagery and recurring occult motifs that reflect Cathryn's splintering sense of perception.

Kira also gets to deliver a fiery speech to a group of women that feels right out a women's lib playbook of the early 1970s era, though, while an amusing scene, it feels wildly out of place for the character who had never shown an inkling of resistance to the patriarchal society of apes that takes place in the future (i.e., her past).

Scenes of Segel on the job as a TV show composer are more distracting than amusing, and a strange choice considering the character himself is supposed to be lazy and unambitious.

With amusing characters and a riveting plot, The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of Anderson's strongest films to date.

Scarlett Johansson stars as the «dime» (a 10 out of 10 in guy terms) in the film, and she gives an effectively amusing push - back to Gordon - Levitt's character, being the inciting «incident» for good reason.

Although sight gags, like young Robin pulling his pants off, will keep kids amused, most of the humor here comes from sarcastic cultural references, decades of Batman depictions and other iconic characters.

Australian director Craig Gillespie, who made the cricket - cum - baseball drama Million Dollar Arm in 2014, sets out his provocative stall from the start, adopting a faux - documentary style that allows principal characters such as Harding (Margot Robbie), her terrifyingly aggressive mother (Allison Janney) and her good - looking but idiotic and abusive future husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan) to address the camera directly while an amusing set of captions tell us that what follows has been inspired by an often «wildly contradictory» set of interviews.

While mounted characters are nothing new to Warriors style games I think it's amusing that all four of them go into battle either on horseback or flying a dragon.

Speaking of characters, U4 still delivers on the beloved banter between characters, in fact, it features some of the best moments between character interactions, some of these by the means of the optional conversations mentioned above, characters interactions never fail to amuse and bring joy, and finding other people's stories through journal notes never cease to intrigue.

As the amiable and amusing underdog story follows their initial unease and eventual camaraderie in the face of an hypocritical head honcho (Kurtwood Smith, TV's That 70's Show), it perceptively ponders the problems of the protagonists and the dearth of double standards whilst crafting a constrained yet credible character - driven piece certain to please, particularly — and surprisingly — for afficionados of HBO's The Wire.

credited writers have done something relatively surprising and interesting with the characters of Newt Geiszler (Charlie Day, the best, most amusing actor in this movie by an enormous margin) and Herman Gottlieb (Burn Gorman).

Palin's role, on the other hand, is perhaps the most amusing of the bunch, embodying a character who is clearly sympathetic in his timidness and sympathetic toward animals (and caretaker of the aquarium that houses not only an important plot device, but also a fish named Wanda), yet is tasked by Georges to rub out the only witness against him (an elderly woman)-- resulting in the repeated, humorously horrifying, accidental murders of her numerous terriers.

A «rough cut» mock - up of the Tamblyn character Tibby's documentary project on «losers,» Suckumentary, is amusing but a trifle when taken out of context in the film.

In many ways, it recalls the Sparrow character he so brilliantly created for the «Pirates» franchise, from his headscarf to his deadpan reactions to his amusing brand of bumbling competence.

It's a system that obliges you to be in exactly the right place at the right time if you want to meet (or save) certain characters, learn the origins of the zombie plague, or simply uncover every amusing quirk the world has to offer.

In an early scene, when the women briefly observe the meaningless occupation of the construction site and begin laughing, the choral function of the perpetually amused black characters in Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams's Baby Doll is what sprang to my mind.

«Hot Tub» amused by putting its characters at the mercy of unfortunate events.