Sentences with phrase «of running gags»

Yet it's disappointing that the best moments in The World's End are continuations of running gags from the two previous films.

At least one of the running gags works, though: if you ever wanted to see Zoey Deschanel trying to suck a severed Minotaur dick, this is your kinda film.

Even the most hoary of running gags — the breaking of the maestro's glasses — revels in its banality, just as the famous lines about Jew - Nazis uttered by Godard at his most contemptible are with deftness shown to be the ramblings of a farcical character.

Although, Arrested Development's behind - the - scenes struggle to survive has now become almost as famous as the litany of running gags it spawned.

For years in our family this has been a bit of a running gag or the «don't believe the myth» example.

Meanwhile, it becomes something of a running gag that after his decision to temporarily retreat from the director's chair in the early 1970s to focus on production and distribution, Corman continually promises, in interview after interview, to return to directing in a year's time.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

The key to using a Neti pot is to tip the head sideways, so the water runs out the other nostril, rather than tipping the head back, which makes it run down the back of the throat and cause gagging.

Secretive kinky slut, who loves to get dressed up in promiscuous lingerie and flaunt my round bubble butt for those who enjoy it;) My gag reflex is bad, so once I run out of breath with my «mouth full» I start to choke:P My booty is EXTREMELY TIGHT seeing as I don't have much experience...

There is one running gag that really annoyed me and it involved one of their friends from their childhood thinking he's funny and he kept making these painfully bad jokes.

One of the funniest running gags is Megamind's mispronunciation of everyday words: school becomes «shooool,» while Metro City winds up rhyming with «atrocity.»

But, like all comedies, everything turns out okay — a running gag about the hapless Jim whose sexual misadventures form the movie's backbone is that all of his disastrous missteps turn out right in the end.

Decent visual gags, witty dialogue («I'm so tired of running rampant in the streets»), a droll Marlon Brando impersonation and at no point does this jolly tale flag.

All four sit together for this running, screen - specific look at cast, characters and performances, sets and locations, story areas and the flick's tone, and the development of various gags.

In addition to the sly humor to be found in the background of every Aardman production (labels for Costly Crackers and Stumbler's Whiskey, a wall papered with news stories about the «Veggy Monster» from «The Curse of the Were - Rabbit»), «Flushed Away» features a hilarious running gag in the form of a Greek chorus of singing slugs, who harmonize at opportune moments on everything from «Don't Worry, Be Happy» to «Mr. Lonely.»

But while the sequel benefits from Reynolds» superhuman charisma as the charmingly annoying, katana - wielding protagonist, the film nevertheless feels too much like more of the same: more of the same gross - out gags, more of the same irreverent jokes, more bits where Deadpool has to regrow severed limbs to the disgust of everyone around him, more running commentary on the movie he's in....

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.

There are a couple of great running gags, along with a few timely appearances by a giant mallard duck -LRB-?).

The running gags about Hagrid breaking things and telling people things he shouldn't have done are funny throughout, as are all the bad things that befall Neville Longbottom over the course of the story.

What is truly delightful about the film is its loopy, gently slapstick sense of humor, its use of continuous running gags that pay off cumulatively (no small feat), and the dreamy sense that Schilling's somnambulism is pierced through only by the insane incomprehensible behavior of others.

A running gag finds Pa Kettle trying to purchase a set of postcards depicting «zee beauties of Paree.»

«The Walk» is worth seeing on a big screen for its final wire walk (intrusive voice - over notwithstanding), for its lovingly recreated images of the World Trade Center, for its often wry humor (including a marvelous running gag involving an elevator operator) and for some of the supporting performances (notably Kingsley's pitch - perfect mentor performance, and James Badge Dale's turn as a wise - ass Franco - American who joins the team infiltrating the towers).

It feels like a slapdash collection of scenes rather than a balloon sent smoothly aloft, with jokes often falling as flat as Cena's buzz cut (a running gag centers on his tough - guy character's propensity for crying, a go - to bit that ages fast).

The majority of its gags fall woefully flat, and its brief, 83 - minute running time often seems to drag for an eternity.

The pay off: He also had a running gag in which he said he would reward the person with the shortest speech with a $ 17,900 jet ski which was presented by Dame Helen Mirren and was ultimately given to Phantom Thread costume designer Mark Bridges at the very end of the night

«The Rural Juror» (Season 1, Episode 10) Perhaps not «30 Rock's» greatest episode, but Jenna's indecipherably titled movie stands as one of the show's most memorable running gags, and the perfect example of the show's off - kilter brand of humor.

One running Ghoulardi gag was to make fun of Parma, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb known for its Polish population.

He also had a running gag in which he said he would reward the person with the shortest speech with a $ 17,900 jet ski which was presented by Dame Helen Mirren and was ultimately given to Phantom Thread costume designer Mark Bridges at the very end of the night.

Whether on Earth or in space, the jokes are either flat or hopelessly crude (the running gag of the Coneheads confusing condoms with chewing gum), and in an attempt to give the film some cachet with the current «Saturday Night Live» audience, a whole bunch of early -»90s «SNL» players are dragged

Madame, with a short running time of 90 swift minutes and peculiar alternating point of views, fail to become anything outside of a gag with good intentions.

There is a recurring gag that has Paul Rudd doing his finest Tony Montana impression (it gets old quick), a scene where the cops try to remove a beached whale from the shoreline, and a couple of run - ins with oft - appearing supporting performer on the TV show, Nick Swardson (The Benchwarmers), as the flamboyantly gay Terry.

In Scream 2, the question of whether a sequel can be better than the original film becomes a running gag, with participants intermittently suggesting examples.

by Walter Chaw Because there is no plot save the scrambling for rent money that has been stolen from the Abbot and Costello - ian pairing of Ice Cube and Michael Epps, the closest one might come to a description of Friday After Next's narrative would involve the running gag of a Santa Claus bandit who breaks into homes to steal presents and beat people with Christmas trees (maybe inspired by Eddie Murphy's Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood Christmas sketch).

What differentiates Rudolph's compulsive use of such howlers — which comprise much of the «screwball» part of «screwball noir» — from Altman's otherwise similar running gags is that they conjure up classic Hollywood archetypes.

But sitcom vets Arnett and Applegate have no problem generating laughs from a running gag about trying to curb their cursing in front of the baby.

There is a particularly inspired running gag involving something so simple: anytime someone slams open the front door, coming out of the blustery cold and into Minnie's Haberdashery, they are forced to nail it shut with boards of wood and be yelled at by those already inside and keeping warm by the fire.

, by contrast, are clearly products of a post-musical era, in which the genre itself is treated like a joke, where musical numbers are less displays of technical virtuosity than extended gags, sometimes at the expense of the performers themselves (in Hairspray, John Travolta's pseudo-drag performance becomes a running punchline; Mamma Mia!

Those who might admire the film will probably not be admirers of Raymond Chandler, from which the movie borrows heavily without acknowledgment, but perhaps fans of physics and astrophysics since there is a running subtext of gags, references and puns revolving around the big bang theory and a particle collider beneath the New Mexican desert.

The rest of the movie has some set pieces too but it's more focused on running gags and good natured dudes razzing each other.

Actually, this is one of the better running gags in this lazily thrown together movie.

In fact some of the best jokes — including a running gag about her repeatedly getting particularly frumpy alternate identities — come from others underestimating Cooper.

Excellent (4 stars) Unrated Running time: 111 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2 - Disc DVD Extras: Deleted, alternate and extended scenes, gag reel, raw and rehearsal footage, commentary by the cast and directors, «Behind - the - Scenes» and «The Making of» documentaries, plus numerous additional featurettes.

If those names don't mean anything to you, many of the best jokes and running gags in the film will be unfortunately lost to you.

This is balanced against a ton of penis jokes and a running gag about what's happened to Bethany's phone.

«Take the Money and Run», Woody Allen's directorial debut, is a messy, at times romantic, often baggy film, full of sight gags, overlaid with some of Allen's most trusted nightclub material.

It helps that there are greats comedians in supporting roles here and there are few memorable running gags outside of the main storyline.

The movie zips along at a perfect pace — quickly enough that the glimpses of Something Nasty, and the various physical gags that produce the events that drive Christine nearly to the brink, but not so quickly as to let everything run together.

It reminds me of routine wartime musicals — not special efforts like The Gang's All Here or Cabin in the Sky or Girl Crazy or The Sky's the Limit, but those wholly forgettable Betty Grable and Alice Faye vehicles, top - heavy with running gags, dopey character actors, corny subplots, and sentimental framing devices.

Schwarzenegger is given many of these, one of them being a running gag about smiling, and it's just awkward.

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