Sentences with phrase «of buddy comedies»

With a long list of buddy comedies behind him, Hart has an idea why some teams work and others don't.

According to the site TVLine, Vince Vaughn — an actor probably best known for co-starring in a series of buddy comedies — is currently in talks to star in season two of HBO's gritty crime series True Detective.

Boasting a marquee team - up with an entertainment value that proves more sorrier than starrier for filmgoers, A Walk in the Woods offers a near bust of a buddy comedy and little else.

Much like «Inglourious Basterds» in that it's another revenge tale based somewhat in historical fact (although there are no real - life figures this time around), «Django Unchained» also reveals itself to be somewhat of a buddy comedy, at least in the first hour when Django and Dr. Schultz travel around the country collecting bounties.

No mission too difficult: the progenitor of the buddy comedy (and the only film to win an Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction)

It's more of a buddy comedy than a deep satirical look at modern day terrorism but it does carry a decent, well researched social commentary on extremism and Jihad in a British context.

Played as a confusing mish - mash of buddy comedy and family drama, it does a good job of fine - tuning the formula.

So sayeth New Zealand's Taika Waititi, who steers the latest solo film for the musclebound Asgardian towards the realm of buddy comedy.

Kuryakin, prone to psychotic episodes, and Solo, a suave thief too valuable to rot in jail, fall just short of buddy comedy status, but their playful one - upmanship makes this adventure more human and enjoyable than it otherwise would be.

CHICAGO — Jonathan Levine's «50/50» is a daring blend of buddy comedy, light romance, family drama, and, oh yeah, cancer movie.

This year's Joe had a Southern Gothic tinge to it; there's no reason to think he couldn't push those elements further the way he toyed with the boundaries of the buddy comedy in Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and Prince Avalanche.

Alas, the film soon assumes the form of a buddy comedy - drama, pairing Brooks with protégé / find Brendan Fraser, a preternaturally gifted but deeply disturbed and emotionally stunted pitcher.

Not exact matches

These days, the Marvel movie on everyone's lips is Black Panther, but we'd be remiss to entirely forget about Thor: Ragnarok, a shaggy, sci - fi buddy comedy that just happened to take place against a vista of wild, intergalactic gladiatorial combat.

But the good news is it's for a buddy comedy reminiscent of City Slickers or Wild Hogs.

A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.

Wildly absurd and entertaining, «The Hangover» may not be the epic comedy that many expected, but it's still a great buddy flick that could be the surprise hit of the summer.

Great plan, except that Deanna insists on going to the same college where Maddie is enrolled, setting up an intergenerational, interfamilial odd - couple buddy - comedy scenario that the film never makes the most of.

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

Before jumping behind the camera for the God of Thunder's latest cinematic adventure, however, Waititi made this quirky buddy comedy set in his native country that's somewhat reminiscent of another Disney release, «Up.»

Sin - Dee and Alexandra's last, quiet scene together, in a laundromat not far from the same Donut Time franchise where they began their action - packed Christmas Eve, succeeds at once as a new kind of female buddy comedy and as a rueful reflection on the meaning of coming home — by whatever definition you choose to understand that word — for the holidays.

... they can't make a silk purse out of the sow's ear that is this formulaic bachelor party / bucket list buddy comedy.

Life of the Party sets up an intergenerational, interfamilial odd - couple buddy - comedy scenario that it never makes the most of.

The Heat plays with clichés from a long line of mismatched buddy cop comedies, and it's as good as any in the genre's pantheon.

But Coco certainly stands out in the sea of talking animal buddy comedies / rescue adventures that most major studio animated features can be categorized as.

Such are the layered joys of this exuberant — if surprisingly conventional — buddy comedy about the making of the worst movie of all time.

An amusing supporting role as a myopic ballplayer in the William Bendix comedy Kill the Umpire (1950) led to D'Andrea being cast as Bendix's buddy Gillis on the TV sitcom The Life of Riley in 1953.

Comedian Bob Saget stars in this heartfelt comedy series as Danny Tanner, the widowed father of three young and rambunctious girls: 9 - month - old Michelle, 5 - year - old Stephanie and 10 - year - old D.J. Danny recruits his two buddies.

In this attempt at a comedy, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn play a trio of 30 - something buddies who have the worst cases of arrested development in the history of Western civilization.

You may have seen unlikely interracial and cross-generational buddy comedies before, but nothing as hip and engaging as this goofy comedy of errors.

Director Taika Waititi turns latest solo Avenger joint into a hilarious buddy comedy, a cosmic romp and one of Marvel's best movies

He's right, of course; it's just that most animated movies that aren't made by Bird's compatriots at Pixar aim for that broad, middle - of - the - road buddy comedy bulls - eye.

As a result the second banana of this service comedy, the affable Harold Ramis, becomes its genuine dramatic center: his struggles to keep his buddy Bill in line have a strange urgency and poignance.

Opening this weekend, buddy - cop action - comedy The Other Guys stars a pair of actors caught in a mid-career slump.

Low - brow, pretty standard plot line for a comedy: four buddies head to Vegas for a bachelor party and the time of their lives.

Sixteen months after the blockbuster's debut, director Todd Phillips has one of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu - ray sets.

As far as buddy comedy pairings go, few can match the unlikeliness of that in «Hunt for the Wilderpeople.»

, The Naked Gun) returns after a 5 year hiatus from the movies with an ambitious, but ultimately undercooked idea for a sports comedy, BASEketball, which is apparently inspired by real game that Zucker and his buddies conceived of while playing around with the driveway hoop.

Coming to cinemas in just a couple of weeks is The Trust, a new black - comedy buddy cop thriller that stars Nicolas Cage and Elijah...

If he were to do another Shane Black buddy comedy, Kilmer already has a shortlist of who he'd like to play his partner in crime: «always Robert Downey Jr till the day I die.

The Thunder Buddies return next week with the U.S. release of the comedy sequel Ted 2, and a rather excellent Flash Gordon - inspired poster has arrived online for the Seth MacFarlane film, which you can see right here... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for Ted 2 Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and co-star of -LSB-...]

The Rock and Kevin Hart are joining forces with «Central Intelligence», a buddy action / comedy from the director of «We're the Milers».

He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy - comedy The Good Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.

It went worldwide with 2004's horrifically delightful ur - zombie comedy, «Shaun of the Dead,» and the even more gleefully bloody buddy cop homage, «Hot Fuzz,» in 2007.

The two styles never quite mesh, though, and the movie starts to feel Frankensteinish; it's partly a female buddy movie, it's partly a romantic comedy, it's partly a Superbad - style R - rated comedy, and partly a tender character study of a woman whose life is falling apart around her.

The sensibility of David Gordon Green, who jumps from indie dramas of small town tragedy to this stoner buddy comedy, is one of the reasons that Pineapple Express works.

Free Birds is a buddy comedy about two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks who must put aside their differences and travel back in time to take Turkey off the Thanksgiving day menu!

Director Adam McKay made his disgust with the industry responsible for the 2008 financial crisis crystal clear in The Other Guys, a buddy action comedy that ended with a number of charts and figures bemoaning bankers» reckless, largely unregulated, entirely self - serving practices,

Universal Pictures has released a new poster for Seth McFarlane's upcoming comedy sequel Ted 2, which sees the foul - mouthed bear joined by his thunder buddy John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg)... SEE ALSO: Watch the red band trailer for Ted 2 here Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and co-star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights -LSB-...]

Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of the long - running police reality series COPS, in what is being described as «an edgy narrative with a buddy comedy bent on the order of a Lethal Weapon.»

The Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart (a top repeat offender in this annual survey) buddy comedy is described as «a near two - hour gay panic joke that relies on the long - running homophobic «sissy» stereotype for most of the lm's intended punchlines.»