Sentences with phrase «of broad slapstick»

The formula of broad slapstick, sticky schmaltz, and simple premises continued throughout many of the worst children's fare, and one can blame Home Alone for a good part of why most live - action kids flicks are so devoid of anything truly worthwhile.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

Not exact matches

Too much of the breezy humor that made the book a delight is stripped away, replaced with predictable jokes and broad slapstick, sitcom - quality encounters with women and bears and a pushy, grating sentimentality.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

As the plot is thin, there's a lot of filler with side characters, including Octavius (Coogan, Philomena) and Jedediah (Wilson, The Grand Budapest Hotel) falling through an air vent and ending up in a replica of ancient Pompeii, Lancelot (STevens, The Guest) crashing a West End stage production of «Camelot» starring Hugh Jackman, and lots of not - too - funny broad slapstick involving Larry trying to corral an energetic caveman he's named Laaa who happens to be his spitting image.

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.

Released the same year as the broad, slapstick of Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, this showed us another side of Allen — the romantic one.

It is another feckless series of awkwardly - scored (and occasionally inappropriate) slapstick, horrifically incompetent computer animation, and broad child acting that makes Jake Lloyd look like Olivier.

One of Sturges's most clever and beloved romantic comedies, The Lady Eve balances broad slapstick and sophisticated sexiness with perfect grace.

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.

But it's much more fizzy and action - packed than its successor, rife with slapstick comedy and some very broad, uncomfortable racial humor centered on the exchange - student character of Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe).

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.»

As usual, Clouseau bumbles his way through sequence after sequence, allowing Martin and company plenty of room for slapstick humor and broad physical comedy.

David Gordon Green's films of late have run the gamut from broad slapstick (Your Highness) to understated drama (Joe), so seeing where a cynical political dramedy falls on the spectrum should be a draw in and of itself.

But the past few years have seen the emergence of a batch of exciting young figurative painters who, though their concerns are varied, share a number of intriguing characteristics: they are attuned to humor (slapstick looms large), fixated on the body, rapacious in their mining of both art history and the broader culture (from TV to Internet memes), and most of all, determined to impart pleasure.