Sentences with phrase «of sight gags»

A third act car chase is well - paced and directed, and includes many of the sight gags reminiscent of silent comedies.

Add gorgeous watercolor backgrounds and no shortage of sight gags and you have a film that has as much zest today as it did when it was first made.

It's not just fully of sight gags, it has plenty of hilarious dialogue delivered by funny people.

They took an art - film approach to making their horror - comedy, including biting dialogue and dramatic conflict along with well - done horror special effects and a variety of sight gags.

Much of the humor in the film is of a character - based variety, which kind of surprised me in a good way because the first trailers seemed to suggest a more knockabout comedy with plenty of sight gags like Melissa McCarthy falling off of her motorcycle.

«The movie feels at odds with itself, chiding the audience for disrespecting Harding's underprivileged background while at the same time chock full of sight gags sniggering at poor people.

The humor is a combination of sight gags, slapstick and wordplay.

The residents of this otherworld, from lowly Hector to the famous Frida Kahlo (voiced by «Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s» Natalia Cordova - Buckley), are all represented as skeletons, and the number of sight gags generated from that fact is literally jaw - dropping.

There are lots of sight gags here, with many of them involving the very funny Rhys Darby («Flight of the Conchords»).

And where even the Farrellys» bad guys had some humanity to them (Matt Dillon in «Mary,» Bill Murray in «Kingpin»), Akerman is nothing but a series of sight gags with nice legs.

Her journey is met by a constant barrage of sight gags, innuendo, and pokes at popular culture.

Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions of his sight gags, his subversions of standard comedic patterns, and his films» acute criticisms of American values.

Being a Sam Raimi movie, there are a ton of sight gags that take amazing advantage of the 3D technology.

The remainder of the sight gags involve Evan hurting himself by building the ark, hammering his fingers, rolling onto his ass, and falling off of every height more than a foot off of the ground.

Every form of comedy is on display, from slapstick to the most subtle of sight gags.

Some of the throwaway lines are rather funny, as are several of the sight gags, such as a recurring bit in which the Duke keeps accidentally killing his wife's dog, then replacing it with one that looks nothing like the previous one.

Wow, for a PG movie, they get away with plenty of sight gags about people skidding down the mountain in suggestive positions.

Some are a bit on the nose like his references to other movies, but there's some insightful stuff here like Wright's reliance on the crash zoom montages and his use of sight gags.

Lester's offbeat sense of humor and zippy pace drive this goofy romance and compendium of sight gags and non-sequiters, while John Barry's lovely score balances the energy and invention with a tender romanticism.

In contrast, Spaceballs has plenty of sight gags building on the visual language of the Star Wars films, like the great opening shot of a looming spaceship so big it makes the Imperial Destroyer look like a dinghy (it takes almost thirty seconds to entirely cross the screen).

Robinson and Basso catch the roiling hormones and sullen emotions of adolescence in this comedy of sight gags and dry humor.

But it features terrific supporting performances as well, especially from male love interests portrayed by Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia and Nelson, who is responsible for the film's Big Talker of a sight gag, when his character runs afoul of a double dose of Viagra.

The repulsiveness of the sight gag is softened by its absurdity — just one reminder of many that this is a movie calibrated to cross the line, though always in service of a laugh.

But we also have to endure a steady menu of sight gags relying on homophobic «humor»; multiple fight scenes with very little comedic payoff; an uninspired retread of the smuggling operation plot line from the original; too many moments featuring the insufferable and just - not - funny Farva character, and an ending that makes zero sense and has no payoff, even in this loony comedic universe.

The amount of sight gags remains breathtaking.

This Bernard is the butt of sight gags throughout the whole thing.

Multiple scenes are an endless parade of sight gags choreographed at a breakneck pace.

Though its origin loosely comes from a three - decades - old book for kids, the original wit in the script, as well as the cavalcade of sight gags, will likely be appreciated by young and old alike.

The movie could be studied as an encyclopedia of sight gags, most of which are well executed, if not entirely original (which won't matter to small - fry viewers).

While there were a couple of the sight gags in the movie, I don't think you'll loose any of the depth and experience in a 2D viewing.

Or maybe not, because while initially it struggles to establish a consistent tone, as soon as the plot kicks off in earnest, the film picks up speed and confidence, venting plumes of sight gags, bloody violence and deadpan, dead - on cultural observations like powdery snow from a thematically - appropriate metaphorical snowplow.

The Hot Chick delivers exactly what you would expect from a Happy Madison production: Crude bathroom humor, sexual innuendo, and the basest of sight gags, all of which will tickle the funny bone of the lowest of lowbrow film lovers.

Sure the iconoclast humor of a Paul McCarthy work is a giggle for a moment, but after an hour it becomes a drab sight gag in a career of sight gags and potty jokes.

Elegant, intimate and always playful (watch out for some old - fashioned back projection and one of the sight gags of the year), Pablo Larraín's latest comes to UK cinemas hot on the heels of Jackie (although he filmed it first).

This year the most uproarious — not to mention best - selling — comedy was «Girls Trip,» an outrageous romp full of sight gags and repeatable one - liners with a star - making turn from Tiffany Haddish.

Comedic scenarios feature a combination of sight gags, one - liners and a visually gross punctuation.

It's safe to say that if you saw Anderson's Mr. Fox and thought it was funny, you'll likely find humor in the many of the sight gags and situations in this film too.

The film offers a few surprises (as per routine with a Marvel movie, stay for the end credits), a good number of sight gags, and a full - bodied exploration of a fringe player in the comic book domain.

Director Ari Sandel employs a lot of sight gags.

But instead of then exploring the social and economic complexities of a parent - daughter relationship predicated on ideological difference like in Toni Erdmann, the filmmakers use these dynamics as a pretense for a series of sight gags and enervated spoofs of everything from The Sopranos to Fight Club.

In what would become his signature style, Tati deploys a variety of sight gags and sound effects that whimsically lampoon the modern - day obsession with efficiency.

There are plenty of sight gags, and the usual mirth and mayhem, although they are mild in humor value, as the Ice Age series has run mostly on charm and affability, rather than on catchy zingers and genuine wit.

«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.

Some of the sight gags are kind of dated by today's standards, but are still very funny because they are used so well.