Sentences with phrase «of irreverent comedy»

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According to Jamie Perry, vice president of brand and product development for Jet Blue, the airline made the short film a comedy because you can't preach to people but you can be irreverent and humorous to get the same point across.

After a period of puppy love for monasticism, in which he is convinced that he has a vocation to become a monk of Quarr Abbey, he gets caught up in the new irreverent comedy that he encounters when he begins attending Cambridge University.

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Now the star of Road Trip and Freddy Got Fingered brings his outrageous energy and irreverent wit to the stage in his first stand - up comedy special.

Michael Fassbender spends the majority of Lenny Abrahamson's irreverent comedy «Frank» buried underneath a giant plastic head, but the honesty of his performance is on full display.

These vibrant, energetic comedies showcase the sort of irreverent, whip - smart sense of humor that the Brits are so well known for, alongside absurd riffs on violence, played in an animated, over the top fashion.

If you enjoy irreverent, sexy, and perverse black comedies like Wild Things and Cruel Intentions, Mini's First Time should prove worth a look, especially if you're a fan of any of the film's talented stars.

Flatulent animals, burly female hockey players, kids spouting vulgarities, and kooky homeless men are just some examples of the things that they've thrown in the mix in order to try to give the appearance of an irreverent, sophomoric comedy.

And yet, I have the feeling this modest little 83 - minute comedy will reverberate like a gunshot in our national conversation about abortion — in part because of the casually irreverent aplomb with which Robespierre approaches this tinderboxiest of topics.

In «Peter Rabbit,» Sony Pictures Animation's «irreverent, contemporary comedy with attitude» about the little dude, Peter's long - standing feud with Mr. McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson, who seems to be hellbent on dominating the space of «beloved kid lit classics, reinvented for the big screen» these days) takes on a new dimension when the pair battle over a charming new neighbor (Rose Byrne), who apparently also adores animals.

Irreverent and an insane riot, there's an unexpected hue of sweet sentiment buried within the layers of comedy stylings, making it a heavenly revelation for the franchise.

A synthesis of irreverent humor, incredible special effects, and a sense of exhilaration sorely lacking in our cynical postmodern horrors and comedies.

and the director of Animal House is an irreverent sketch comedy that misses as often as it hits, but probably makes for a pretty good midnight movie.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Irreverent Horror Comedy Arrives on DVD Right in Time for Halloween General Lee Roy (Robin Watkins), a rank and file member of the Ku Klux Klan, also happens to be the CEO of American Chicken Bunker, a leading chain of fast food restaurants.

Chuck Hayward's (Netflix's series Dear White People) irreverent script is all about embracing your inner loser as the ultimate winner, making Emmy - nominated Jennifer Arnold's (A Small Act) fiction feature directorial debut a willfully offensive adult comedy with no manners and tons of heart.

Waititi, 42, is a veteran of the cult comedy series «Flight of the Concords» and has previously directed largely offbeat irreverent indies like the deadpan vampire tale «What We Do in the Shadows» and the oddball outlaw comedy «Hunt for the Wilderpeople.»

If you guessed that the Rush Hour series is popular primarily because of the irreverent repartee among the two film's stars more so than the plot itself, you'll understand why Rush Hour 3 is the lesser of an already mediocre series of action - comedies.

The Matador is a refreshing, irreverent comedy that easily goes down as one of the best comedies of 2005.

With only fourteen episodes in total, the covertly uproarious series is easily consumed within a weekend, but you will inevitably be left wishing you had more of this inventive, irreverent comedy to indulge in.

The X-Men movies are dramatic and almost operatic, whereas Deadpool is irreverent and hysterical and sort of a dirty R - rated comedy in many ways.

«Turkeys is an irreverent, hilarious, adventurous buddy comedy where two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history — and get turkey off the menu for good.»

But the raunchy, R - rated comedy with an ever - game Ryan Reynolds as Marvel's irreverent mercenary is another showpiece in Marvel's impressive gallery of adult - oriented films and series, which includes Netflix's riveting «Jessica Jones» and the intense «Daredevil.»

A wickedly funny, irreverent comedy, featuring a malapropism - peppered performance by Jennifer Coolidge and an impeccable cast of archetypal characters, Austenland hits all the right notes of the Regency era and our curious infatuation with it.

From the director of Good Morning, Vietnam and Wag the Dog comes an irreverent comedy hit with a hilarious all - star cast that is sure to win your vote for best comedy of the year!

The Merc with the Mouth returns in Deadpool 2, the irreverent follow - up to 2016's surprise R - rated smash superhero action - comedy Deadpool that brazenly took a character that was introduced in perfunctory and forgettable fashion in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and shockingly made something electric, alive and artistically viable out of him.

It's actually the balance between irreverent fun and underlying seriousness that makes Sneakers such a good film, with the humor never offsetting the importance of any situation, while it also never takes itself so seriously that the tone of the comedy loses edge.

Director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is one of those rare movies that pulls off a feat of narrative tightrope walking, in this case a comedy - drama about a young man with cancer that manages to be thought - provoking and insightful without being melodramatic, and funny and irreverent rather than woefully inappropriate or safe.

An irreverent reboot of the late 1980s TV series that helped launch the career of Johnny Depp, 21 Jump Street only half - heartedly scratches the surface of the more intriguing comedy of young male anxiety at which it hints, preferring instead to target broader laughs.

12:00 N — TCM — The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Preston Sturges» zaniest and most irreverent comedy gives Betty Hutton her best role as Trudy Kockenlocker, who goes out for a night on the town with a group of soldiers about to ship out.

The classic NBC comedy starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin based loosely on the backstage happenings of Saturday Night Live brings laugh after laugh with each witty, irreverent episode, and it's bound to be your next brilliant binge.

This has been a banner year for superhero movies and the ones that have been most satisfying have been those that threw out the rulebooks of their predecessors: Logan giving us a dark, bitter, aging R - rated Wolverine, Ragnarok ditching Shakespearean brood to mine Thor and company for sheer exhilarating fun, The Lego Batman Movie applying the irreverent comedy treatment to Gotham City lore.

From the Studio: From the creators of Shrek comes the most smart, funny, irreverent animated comedy of the year, DreamWorks» Trolls.

Woody Allen finds a new muse every few films, and his latest belle du jour is Emma Stone, who anchors «Irrational Man,» yet another one of his irreverent murder comedies.

The final scene picks up the irreverent comedy right where it had left off, with the characters playing off of each other in fun.

Following his irreverent superhero reboot Thor: Ragnarok, one of 2017's most distinctive blockbusters, and his quirky Kiwi indie comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople in 2016, it's fair to say that interest in New Zealand director Taika Waititi's back...

To the relief of comedy enthusiasts everywhere, in A Futile and Stupid Gesture (now available on Netflix), comedy legend and unsung hero, Doug Kenney, the man who co-founded the ground - breakingly irreverent National Lampoon magazine with his best friend, Henry Beard, «the oldest man who was ever a teenager», is imagined with great admiration and comedic inheritance by one of this era's funniest, most visionary voices, David Wain.

This year's massive hit Deadpool — an official entry, given Deadpool's mutant power and X-Men guest appearances — was an irreverent comedy that poked holes in the fabric of the typical PG - 13 rated superhero universe.

Krampus wants to be an irreverent horror - comedy, but it's too sentimental and too broad to hit the heights of Joe Dante at his best.

Reviewers aptly compare the revelations of Mr. Snicket (and, by implication, his representative, Mr. Handler) with the irreverent comedies of Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey.

The report basically summed up that children's reading habits fell into two «distinct» categories — either dystopian fantasies by the likes of Collins, Clare and Roth, or what it described as «irreverent, larger than life anti-hero comedies» such as Kinney's Wimpy Kid stories, Dahl's The Twits or Walliams» Gangsta Granny.

Once again, it's nothing terribly deep, and doesn't offer much in the way of social commentary — but «It's a Jersey Thing» does bring back some of the irreverent, in - your - face comedy that the previous episode lacked.

«If you remember Red Foxx's Party albums, which were very irreverent, or Richard Pryor's... I wanted it to be irreverent, but I also wanted it to address a lot of social things I was interested in, so I used comedy as the gaze,» says Bradford.