Sentences with phrase «of pure comedy»

Earning Allen his first major awards outside of the Writers Guild of America, Annie Hall chalked up some of pure comedy's biggest wins since the five - category sweep of Frank Capra's 1934 screwball romcom It Happened One Night.

Baby Driver isn't as much of a pure comedy as the Cornetto Trilogy or Scott Pilgrim (though there are some great laughs throughout), but it is certainly the apex of his action work.

Williams does deliver on energy, but he has never really possessed a true talent for broadly physical comedy, and as scene after scene roll by, you'll probably find it impossible not to scratch your head and wonder why the man that can ad - lib classic comedic moments on stage and on late night talk shows can't seem to inject even one laugh in nearly two hours of pure comedy that he has worked on for weeks.

Manchester United skipper Wayne Rooney's testimonial match against his old club Everton ended in a rather boring goalless draw, but the match witnessed a moment of pure comedy gold when Rooney and his son Kai laughed at Memphis Depay, as the young dutch winger's ambitious overhead kick went absolutely gas.

Manchester United skipper Wayne Rooney's testimonial match against his old club Everton ended in a rather boring goalless draw, but the match witnessed a moment of pure comedy gold when Rooney... Continue Reading →

Warner Brothers is behind this one, and it seems (outside of pure comedies) that this is becoming more of a rare bird outside the indie - Sundance sphere.

Not exact matches

Scenes of Joe fighting with contractors or negotiating rectory politics are pure comedy of manners, while scenes that take place at «the Great Badger, the Discount House with a heart,» veer more toward social satire.

There's a song on Pure Comedy called «When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay.»

Pure Comedy is a sprawling, conceptual epic that starts at the birth of mankind and continues through mankind's self - destruction at the hands of the technology, organized religion and the entertainment industrial complex.

And speaking of information overload, I was SO unprepared to hear about the liquid gold of breast milk called, colostrum?!! Not sure how that related to baby products, but in looking back, the whole experience was just pure comedy

Regarding the pay increase: I've sat through hundreds of hours of Council hearings but nothing I've ever seen rivaled yesterday's hearing for pure comedy.

«21 and Over» would have been better served going for pure comedy the whole time — like «Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy» successfully pulled off — and a script rewrite that took chances beyond «The Hangover» formula we've already seen twice now.

Some of the script is just pure cheese and the one - liners that Defendor constantly spouts are nothing but bits of stupidity marketed as «har - har comedy».

In pushing the film into gonzo - style comedy instead of melodrama or pure docudrama, Gillespie successfully navigates a very tricky line — this is, after all, a story filled with domestic abuse and violence, something that shouldn't be played for laughs but is also not the focus of the story.

In my opinion Happy Gilmore is one of the best comedies of all time as almost every joke in this film is pure quotable gold, I also love Ben Stiller's role in this film as the senior citizens home caretaker he is just so brutal hahahaha

From Mark Wahlberg's controlled verbal outbursts to Martin Sheen's earnestness to Alec Baldwin's schizoid vulgarities to Leonardo Di Caprio's compassionate toughness to Ray Winstone's quasi immobile fierceness to Jack Nicholson's beautifully pure excess, The Departed is indeed an performance - driven, fast - paced comedy of expertly timed thrills (or comedic thriller, depending on your point of view) peppered with several instances of acrobatic verbal witticisms, and topped with enough generic clichés and predictable screw - turns to make it palatable for all audiences (yes, even those who paid money to see Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner's The Guardian).

There's nothing wrong with making one of these movies a pure comedy, particularly when the comedy is so interesting and loose.

Though Punchline defies the Hollywood penchant for producing either pure comedy or straight drama, its view of those with the guts to stand before an audience and dare them to laugh is oddly uplifting.

Joe Dante is one of my favorite filmmakers, as he is one of the most diverse directors out there, making pure horror films like The Howling, kid - friendly iconic films such as Gremlins and Small Soldiers, as well as comedies such as this and Inner Space.

Clerks and Office Space have been often imitated over the years, and even though those films have their share of flaws, none of the pretenders to the raunchy work comedy throne have been able to topple them in terms of quotability or pure laughter.

The premise of this Duplass brothers - directed comedy is pure sitcom: man meets woman, man then meets woman's unhinged son, lols ensue.

Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Collin Farrell insert their own brand of comedy into their respective roles, helping turn the film's crazier and dark moments into pure gold.

A comedy and a labor of love, the movie is a takeoff on 1970s action films that's been stripped of filler to concentrate on pure visceral thrills.

What follows is a predictable underdog sports flick chock full of training sequences and bathroom humor with a few moments of true beauty and pure comedy.

Cox's style is a step beyond camp into a comedy of pure disgust; much of the film is churlishly unpleasant, but there's a core of genuine anger that gives the project an emotional validation lacking in the flabby American comedies of the early 80s.

Pixar's keystone franchise takes on the tone of its more serious recent films (Wall - E and Up), mixing comedy, action and emotion in a way that's pure magic: we end up laughing, frightened and crying tears...

If we're judging in terms of pure quotability, the only comedy film of the last 20 years to even exist in the same solar system as Step Brothers is Anchorman.

A horror - comedy, Get Out is made up of scenes that are well - acted, stunning, and just pure pleasure.

He's heart - wrenchingly sorrowful, with bursts of comedy while entertaining − − a pure delight to watch.

Two pure comedies, Paul Feig's «Spy» and Judd Apatow's «Trainwreck,» were nominated in the Best Motion Picture — Comedy category alongside three films comprised of considerably more dramatic fare: Adam McKay's exploration of the modern financial crisis, «The Big Short,» David O. Russell's profile of an entrepreneur, «Joy,» and Ridley Scott's sci - fi adventure, «The Martian.»

That said, the film is very much your standard sex comedy filled with generic characters that are never fully developed, cheap gross - out gags and several moments of pure stupidity.

Rogen, Franco, Hill, Wiig & More to Voice «Sausage Party:» At first the idea of a movie featuring animated sausages may make you think the industry has gone too far, but when you hear the details, it's clear this project is pure comedy gold.

There isn't much to recommend Wasabi except for the offbeat mix of over-the-top humor and overly stylized action, and taken as a pure entertainment kind of film, it'll please most audiences who like French action - comedies.

Major League — Baseball often transitions to comedy, with this film perhaps being the most successful pure comedic outing of the lot.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

Hopefully there's going to be loads on the DVD extras, because we did shoot a lot of material, some of which is pure comedy gold.

The network has unleashed trailers for a slew of new shows they're hoping will catch your eye, including a different kind of superhero show (MacGyver), another film - to - TV remake (Training Day), a new Jason Katims drama (Pure Genius), a new Joel McHale comedy (The Great Indoors), and two separate, unrelated comedies about working - class men forced to spend time at home (Kevin James «Kevin Can Wait and Matt LeBlanc «s Man With a Plan).

This is described as a «no - holds - barred pileup of carnage, twisted comedy, and pure crazy.»

Hill shows that he can play an unlikeable, dark and creepy character instead of the usual pure comedy role.

The 1991 film, one of many adaptations over the centuries of the old, dark fairy tale, worked wonderfully because it was pure Broadway, written for the screen, blending comedy and romance and magic and just enough snark in the margins.

It's as much a diatribe about the fickle nature of youth as it is a pure slapstick comedy, featuring a humdinger of a hipster prophet in the form of a footloose Greta Gerwig.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy represents the purest effort of a New Wave in film comedy that lives to riff.

The film's core is all heart, but surrounding the dramatic moments is a pure sense of humor that generated more genuine laughter than any comedy I've seen in recent years.

78 minutes of pure animation and comedy.»

It's not pure comedy, but there is an unmistakable dark sense of humor that has defined Roth's previous work.

Laura's unsolicited hitchhiking - ride - from - hell is pure horror comedy, followed by a foreboding walk through the abandoned Point Dune, is an excellent little vignette of just how bizarre it would be for a sane person hanging out in an insane town.

We appear to be in for something of an island romantic comedy, as the two unlikely allies — rough, masculine, faithless orphan marine Allison and the simple, pure - hearted Angela — go hunting for a turtle together and consider the possibility that they'll have to survive on the island's ample natural resources for years to come until a rescue.

Sleeper — In this, the greatest of Woody Allen's pure comedies, he gets himself unfrozen at some point in the future, impersonates a robot, woos Diane Keaton and attempts to overthrow the 1984-esque dictatorship.

Veep redirects the crackling verbal fireworks of The West Wing from Aaron Sorkin's liberal high dudgeon to the pure cynicism of likability indices, brand images, news cycles, and gaffes, and the comedy comes off because it's The West Wing, not Veep, that now seems like the Hollywood fantasy.

However, considering it's pure pulp entertainment, leaning more toward comedy than action, we'd be surprised if it's being considered for anything other an out of competition bow at best.