Sentences with phrase «of pratfalls»

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Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures.

Although the characters can feel like the usual troop of game tropes, the developers avoid many of the pratfalls which mar other role - playing storylines.

Another thing to remember is that Buffett has had a number of pratfalls.

There's some fairly terse plotting, and the bank robbery sequence starts off quite engaging until it devolves into a Heat - like shootout and the typical live action finale of pratfalls.

full of pratfalls and Cate Blanchett reflexively making sound effects for her toy weapons rounds out the extras.

Since none of the children exhibits a whit of charisma, the only thing that makes the movie even slightly bearable is Lewis Black's game performance as the exasperated Mr. Porter, a role which called for a combination of pratfalls, popping his cork and wide - eyed reaction shots.

Suffice to say a lot of pratfalls and madness follows.

Driver is also a highlight of This Is Where I Leave You (Grade: C), which finds an outstanding ensemble cast struggling to pump emotion into a sitcomish blend of pratfalls and heart - to - hearts.

by Walter Chaw Although it closes with thirty minutes of pratfalls and screaming, Big Fat Liar begins its life as a fun revenge fantasy that makes the interesting choice of never being about greed, but rather truth.

Writer - director Thomas Bezucha is often less a filmmaker and more a shepherd of pratfalls.

Like all films with traces of Zucker, there's a: plenty of pratfalls, and b: Leslie Nielsen.

Potentially sweet family dynamics are buried under a relentless parade of pratfalls and harmful household disasters (see also Cheaper by the Dozen).

As in the first «Sherlock Holmes» movie, there are plenty of pratfalls and bare - knuckle brawls but no sleuthing for us to share.

It is essentially comical and has all the marks of a pratfall.

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat») is of the well - executed physical variety.

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan») is of the well - executed physical variety.

The broad, nested bands of Pratfall, from 1974, show not a trace of anything beyond the picture plane.

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... With apologies to President Clinton, the biggest pratfall in Florida last week belonged to Heat forward Jamal Mashburn, who missed all 10 of his shots in an 82 - 76 loss to Charlotte....

He hoists a huge load of bats over his shoulder, walks toward the plate and takes a pratfall.

Alain E. Kaloyeros resigned as president of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute on Tuesday, marking not only the fall of one of the state's most powerful and best - paid employees, but also a very public pratfall for a university system that has been a ready lever of power for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Having demonstrated his comedic talents to an worldwide audience, Benigni seemed an inspired casting choice for the pratfalling offspring of Inspector Clouseau in Blake Edwards» 1992 Son of the Pink Panther.

They're certainly no Aykroyd and Belushi, or even Myers and Carvey, but Farley and Spade manage to wring humor from a series of juvenile setups and predictable pratfalls.

Director Bennett Miller has produced a warm and generally agreeable character study about the pratfalls of athletic institutions and the willingness to think outside the box.

Here are all the things you will discover in Show Dogs: embarrassingly bad CGI; pratfalls; a dog biting FBI butt; dog farts; testicle humor (multiple instances); a giant movie - long promo for a major hotel on the Vegas Strip that I won't name because they didn't pay me to promote them; denigration of cat ladies; horrible clichés and stereotypes.

The pitiful misadventures presented here spotlight pratfalls more than biting wit, which is a dodgy endeavor considering that the median age of the double bill is 77.

Deadpool assembles a team of mutants (except, hilariously, a guy named Peter, who has no obvious superpower) that he dubs X-Force for a daring, pratfall - filled and mostly ill - fated rescue before facing off against a rather more ordinary but still plenty nasty villain, the headmaster of Broadstone House, a reformatory for mutant children, who has the mien of a bureaucrat and the soul of a sadist.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

The story takes a couple of sharp turns, ultimately revealing that it isn't a romantic comedy after all, but a shambling drama with a few mildly amusing pratfalls.

The script recycles Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, with six guests invited by a mysterious host to spend the night in a creepy mansion, but instead of parodying the material Lynn simply surrounds it with extraneous pratfalls and wisecracks.

They all get together for a long weekend where not much happens, aside from pratfalls in the woods, plenty of public urination, and an eventual moment of confession which is nothing short of cringeworthy.

With the exception of a second - act revelation that pushes the story in an interesting direction, «Table 19» is a largely ineffective Sundance wannabe that's unable to balance its pratfalls and dick jokes with the more serious moments.

Based on this trailer, this is definitely something different from Scorsese (we're not sure we ever expected to see a shot of a dog reacting to a slapstick pratfall from the director of Mean Streets), though he's never been the sort of director you could pin down to one genre.

Naturally it will all resolve itself in a flurry of tears, hugs and revelations — perhaps an attempt, as disingenuous as it is unsuccessful, to reinstate the sweet, reconciliatory spirit of Beatrix Potter after an hour - and - a-half's worth of «Looney Tunes» - style pratfalls and incongruous pop songs.

Plaza doesn't stray too far from her brand — Tatiana is unsurprisingly droll and cutthroat — but the actress continues to prove that she's more than just her affectations, and her performance is backboned by a heartfelt riot of inner chaos and an uproarious talent for pratfalls (seriously, she has a gift).

The interconnectedness of all things and the nature of destiny are tough pitches for comedy — philosophy and pratfalls often don't mix especially well — but as Jeff deals with his odyssey for wood glue and Sharon is confronted by a secret admirer and Pat discovers Linda has things she wants too, the movie becomes a philosophical comedy.

Embarrassingly bad CGI; pratfalls; genital humor; denigration of cat ladies; horrible clichés and stereotypes.

«I Origins» actually shows a considerable attempts to avoid the pratfalls of its predecessor.

It is with The Naked Gun that Nielsen fully displays his comic gifts, a tour - de-force of deadpan, face - pulling, and pratfall.

Lost in Paris returns slapstick and sight gags, now the fodder or annual Shrek imitators, back to the world of art, with the pratfalling misadventures of two caricatured romantics playing out like a musical.

Yes, this movie is just as silly as it looks, with Jim Carrey pratfalling all over the screen alongside a bunch of adorable (sometimes animated) critters.

Narratively, Game Night is a fairly loose spoof, with screenwriter Mark Perez (Accepted, The Country Bears) adhering closer to the rules of the dubious, aforementioned civilians - in - trouble subgenre, meaning that we get lots of scenes of Bateman, McAdams, and company pratfalling in and out of sticky situations.

Yet, Rogen and Goldberg avoid all the major pratfalls of first - time comedy filmmakers, combining the loose, Apatow - inspired interactions with impressive visual set pieces that create a sense of scope and escalation.

The former — all fart, poop and pratfall — is the stuff that the eye rolls of girlfriends and wives is made of (not to mention a good portion of Adam Sandler and Kevin James» careers).

he contrived but cute «Run Fat Boy Run» ambles along innocently enough, and then out of nowhere, the movie leans on gross - out humor and pratfalls that would shame Mr. Bean (and one scene will have Austin Powers calling his lawyer).

This way he keeps the viewer — and possibly the director — genuinely off balance, shimmying up against a couple of massage parlor cuties (he's clobbered by a baseball bat, departing consciousness with a lovely goofball pratfall), sussing out Martin Short's smarmy Dr. Blatnoyd (letting Short run circles around the infield, the receptionist, and a nice pile of medical - grade cocaine), or playing telephone straight man to Jeannie Berlin's Aunt Reet, a Catskills gargoyle with killer timing: «Maybe you're better off with the Nazis.»

Their tendency toward pratfalls and other bits of broad, physical humor is also funny every so often.

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.