Sentences with phrase «of jokes the characters»

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Some of the most popular branding and marketing campaigns of all time have involved jokes, characters, or clever «hooks» that stick in your head.

Excellent joke and a very good illustration of characters.

Critics have remarked that Ginsberg's exit would have been more compelling if the character had been given more screen - time this season, instead of being called in sporadically to deliver the odd scatological joke.

Abby Olcese: I set my expectations pretty low: a lot of gross - out jokes, not much character development, and the occasional line that made me laugh, but also made me feel bad for laughing.

I set my expectations pretty low: a lot of gross - out jokes, not much character development, and the occasional line that made me laugh, but also made me feel bad for laughing.

Aside from the above, my husband and I often just joke about similarities we (or someone we know) share with one of the main characters.

They were along the lines of two - character moron jokes.

In today's high court appeal judgement, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Griffith Williams said: «If the person or persons who receive or read it, brush it aside as a silly joke, or a joke in bad taste, or empty bombastic or ridiculous banter, then it would be a contradiction in terms to describe it as a message of a menacing character.»

A con man whose scam reminded prosecutors of a longstanding joke on «Seinfeld» will spend the next 2 1/3 to 7 years in the same place where the characters of the classic sitcom ended up — state prison.

Moore took on Batman with the seminal A Killing Joke, a Joker story whose vague and haunting ending had more to say about the character, and his relationship with Batman, than the decades of material leading up to it.

Many of the xtranormal videos that have caught on with a big audience have followed a similar formula as this one: the jokes that work tend to be those whose humor relies on repetition and deadpan delivery, since characters say the same lines exactly the same way every time.

The most famous social media arrest came during the «Twitter joke trial», when Paul Chambers was convicted of using a «public electronic communication network» to send a «message of menacing character» when he tweeted:

Sharing the rationale behind his gesture, Mustapha Inusah said that, «I have worked with and for, managed, and done PR works for celebrities across West Africa — I can say with confidence that, two actors, Kwaku Manu and Bismark the Joke, are a rare breed of characters who appreciate the works of journalists and how we have contributed to their success stories.

That made a good joke, so I placed my characters there, and that's where a lot of the story unfolds.

(It is joked by singers that Wagner's character of Siegfried in Der Ring des Nibelungen ought to have been called Sahgfried, as his name is sometimes pronounced that way by sopranos looking to get the most volume out of their voices.)

My grandfather liked to joke that Junior was a good judge of character.

In the previous movies, these characters would have been the butt of a few jokes, but here, they're inventing feminism — burning a bra and kicking ass.

It still has worthwhile humor, but chooses to focus on the characters instead of throwing in joke after joke.

The film's focus on clumsy, inept characters results in a series of jokes that are beyond lame; this is the sort of stuff even Three Stooges fans would have a hard time defending.

Even if is not perfect for his awful villains, some unfunny jokes and the character of Captain Underpants not appering much in the film, is still better than any animated movie like Cars 3 o LEGO Ninjago Movie.

But the novelty of this has certainly worn off a bit and in the interests of both retaining fan favorites and introducing new personalities, this third film feels a little crammed with characters all vying for the same kind of calculated jokes.

Throw in Neil Patrick Harris — once again playing the Bizarro World version of himself — shattered and reinforced redneck stereotypes and a delightful take on Dubya [here, he may not speak real good English, but he's slyer, smarter and mellower than we are expecting] and the result is a solidly funny movie that Says Something more by highlighting the characters of Harold and Kumar than by the political jokes.

This show has turned into utter bollocks, the first two seasons were very good and paced really well, but this missing baby storyline is a joke, the characters have become overly sentimental and schmaltzy which is difficult to reconcile with the uncompromising action a show of this nature needs.

All in all, though, we don't fall in love with any of these characters, we don't root for the film's one «couple» (who we think all along will unrealistically be granted a predictable Hollywood ending), we can't remember the jokes after the fact and, most important, we aren't consistently entertained.

For children it provides goofy, lovable characters and childish potty humor, while for adults it also offers meta jokes about modern society or of the film itself.

This is a lame joke by anyone's standards, but coming from one of the greatest silent comedians (still recognisable as the little tramp, even though he is playing a different character) makes it sound even worse than it really is.

I didn't care about any of the characters and to compare this to Tarantino like dialogue maybe the biggest joke in this movie.

I will say that the main villain is kind of stupid and his jokes wear out fast, and some of the side characters are a bit boring though.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

Great story, characters, graphics, music, atmosphere, creative puzzles, tons of dark jokes, everything is perfect in this little adventure.

Once again Dean Norris is wasted in his role, he looks lost among the incessant pandemonium and it doesn't surprise me his character was ready to call it quits and leave this joke of an «epic» TV drama.

Characters and their arcs are good, but it's the construction and execution of the jokes that are particularly noteworthy.

If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are characters who feel like subjects who can care rather than just targets for cynical jokes).

Full of ideas that are usually more clever than funny — e.g., the running joke satirizing lack of communication between men and women by having the characters speak jibberish, generic phrases, or different languages — but it should prove interesting and inventive enough to keep smart people watching to the end.

Game Night's characters aren't exactly complex, and some of them — such as the husband - and - wife duo played by Lamorne Morris and Kylie Bunbury — are wasted in one - joke subplots.

Although Deadpool 2 repeats the first movie's jokes about the character being a scrappy castoff not good enough for Marvel's higher - profile franchises — at one point, Wade opens the wrong door in Charles Xavier's manor and finds the better - known characters staring back at him in confused irritation — this one has the budget and the clout to allow him to associate with a higher class of co-star.

I lost track of which characters were with which side, and the movie even tries to make the same joke, as if knowingly acknowledging this aspect forgives Free Fire for its plotting misfires.

More important — at all times — is having jokes thrown at the audience, many of which have nothing to do with the characters themselves or their journey.

Finding a curse closer to home would have also saved the characters an absurd six - hour round trip whenever they decide to go back to the site and gather more clues: as it is, the repeated shots of their car approaching the Mexican border soon start to feel like a running joke.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

The character, his dialogue, quips and in - jokes are as funny and bloody - bad - taste as before, creating goodwill and feeling of warmth for a character who is anything but.

The characters are living through a thriller, but a major component of the central joke is that they're either completely unaware of it or totally unprepared for what the reality of their situation entails.

«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam

If you can get through the excess of characters, and the requisite butt jokes, car chase and tween pop songs, the film does keep both the physical and the verbal comedy coming at a steady pace.

Ryan Coogler does not take the popular route of packing the film with jokes but the characters certainly have their moments which break the tension.

The side characters remain terrific — my favorite joke in the premiere may be Laurie's utter bafflement at Monica complimenting her for the birth of her fourth child only hours earlier — and the show still has a gift for constructing comic set pieces like the black site - style office Richard tried to show the guys in the premiere's opening.

«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam Anderson ruined, and more than invited her to that movie, it's a damn roll.

They're competitive to a degree that almost annoys their friends (One of the film's unspoken jokes is that a character who's prevalent in the prologue isn't in the rest of the film, since, apparently, the couple's competitive streak finally got to him).

There is no development of characters or plots in this season, leaving it with just a boring scenario of jokes and situations.

In both of those cases, the reactions on other characters» faces make the jokes even funnier.