Sentences with phrase «of slapstick»

There's lots of slapstick comedy which kids and their families should enjoy.

The formula for Lego games should be familiar by now: take a pop culture universe, render its characters and world with the titular Danish building blocks, add in a healthy dose of slapstick humor and as many collectibles as you can stuff on a disc, and ship it.

The movie has a lot of slapstick party humor and most of it is pretty rote stuff.

Now, Atari is taking the formula to a new level in the identically named but reimagined Warlords, which features soldiers, bosses and a healthy dose of slapstick comedy.

Like Palka's mom - dog, the movie is a mess, clicking back and forth between shadowy horror, suburban melodrama, and the kind of slapstick family comedy in which I half - expected Eddie Murphy to burst through the front door in a fat suit.

It's a film seemingly constructed with a mind toward pure simplicity: our hero, Wall - E, is a robot who only speaks in electronic tones, participates in plenty of slapstick inquisitiveness, and all he wants is love.

Expanded online features, honed controls and surprise moments of slapstick humour are all welcome, but in the end the game still finds its strengths in darkness, where carefully rationed torchlight reveals horrors that provoke a signature cocktail of both fear and wonder.

Angela de la Cruz creates paintings using the language of sculpture and vice-versa, creating works with an element of slapstick comedy which strike at a deeper emotional tension.

«Looney Tunes» has endured for so long thanks to its mix of slapstick humor and beloved characters, with episodes full of cross-generational, classic shtick that gets passed from generation to generation.

Whether it's because Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels play their characters slightly differently (you can practically see them dusting off the proverbial cobwebs in certain scenes), or the fact that the Farrelly brothers» brand of slapstick potty humor is no longer innocently perverse, but instead lazy, mean - spirited and tone - deaf, the movie comes across like a bad impersonation.

If used as the odd gag or for a moment of slapstick Id understand but to go from the suit shielding Tony Stark from the weight of a collapsing building to the next scene were we see it fly into a steel pole and break into a hundred pieces just doesn't make sense.

Fortunately there are enough jokes and visual effects to keep most kids entertained and only moderate amounts of slapstick violence and moments of peril.

The action is inventive and incorporates the blend of slapstick humour and use of found objects as weapons that distinguishes the earlier films of Jackie Chan and also Stephen Chow.

«Climate Hustle» is «the most dangerous documentary of year» — «Wickedly effective use of slapstick humor» — «Lays waste to Gore» — «Brutal & Extremely Funny»

Even the script's comedy is all - inclusive, combining an impressive array of slapstick stunts with puns and musical gags.

Like John's memory, the script goes in and out of slapstick comedy territory, Mirren fending off Florida redneck thugs with a double barrel shotgun, to painful realizations that the couple can barely take care of themselves.

«One Cut of the Dead» got the Udine audience roaring with the sort of slapstick gags that had their roots in silent films.

The graphics are outstanding and have a nice cartoony vibe, with a great amount of slapstick thrown in.

Franco flaunts his body throughout the film (beer gut gone, teeth are whitened), but in many of the slapstick sequences (written by his pal Jonah Hill), he looks as uncomfortable as the Oscar audience when he hosted.

Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore — produced by the flying fingers — gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects.

Violence: During frequent scenes of slapstick violence, a man is hit in the groin and the head with a ball.

It's fairly easy to follow and features tons of slapstick comedy, the cornerstones of any truly memorable romp.

Actually, it's like watching something other than a movie, like a bunch of bad acting, cheesy dialogue and laughably crap special effects, and like this kind of slapstick childish unfunny type of humour, all exploded

Other than a few bursts of slapstick action, the DTS - HD Master Audio 5.1 mix is quite mild, but it gets the job done with a well - balanced mix that nicely prioritizes dialogue.

But considering the film's Sugarplum Fairy demographic, destigmatizing strangers through the requisite Home Alone - ization of cops (Williams is subject to all manner of slapstick punishment) is not just irresponsible, but morally reprehensible, too.

From the writers and directors of slapstick comedy «Vacation», comes another ridiculous film in the vein of Steve... Read More

Whether it's because Carrey and Daniels play their characters slightly differently (you can practically see them dusting off the proverbial cobwebs in certain scenes after such a long hiatus from the roles), or the fact that the Farrelly brothers» brand of slapstick potty humor is no longer innocently perverse, but instead lazy, mean - spirited and tone - deaf, the movie comes across like a bad impersonation.

With an amusing array of slapstick sequences and supporting characters up its CGI sleeve, Ferdinand boasts a vibrant voice - cast, with John Cena surprisingly fine as Ferdinand — the bull who, faced with a future as a meal or a matador's opponent, refuses to fight.

Some might compare this film to another religion - based comedy, Dogma, which is equally hampered by cheap theatrics and an inability to get solid laughs from the material without resorting to dick jokes, stoner comedy, and ridiculous levels of slapstick violence.

If we went a little more toward that sort of slapstick territory, I think the film would fall apart.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature is a more - than - nutty sequel that foregoes many of the usual concerns about sex and profanity, but does provide a generous helping of slapstick animated violence.

What's less obvious on first sight is the humour of the work, alluding to the artist's love of the slapstick comedy of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

It's a brain teaser full of slapstick jokes, an insta - memes app that sets you off on a quest of epic trolldom.

The lesson explores the art of slapstick and physical comedy.

Wicks includes plenty of slapstick antics among the animated body parts and some well - timed, occasionally groan - inducing jokes, which are sure to keep kids engaged.

It pretty much falls in line with every other LEGO game by providing the same cookie cutter formula of slapstick humour and brick - busting gameplay across eight large levels.

The film's series of genuinely funny non-sequiturs are basically Allen's stand - up one - liners brought to life, recalling the frantic ecstasy of slapstick classics from Blazing Saddles to The Naked Gun in the best way possible.

Chaplin was a master of slapstick comedy in the early 20th century.

But that is one of reasons this show is so beverly hillbillies is because you don't put comedy relief inside of slapstick.

(See a wide variety of slapstick movies that illustrate the physics of numerous small changes in roof - based potential energy followed by one major ground - state transition.)

Claparède's patient would have seemed straight out of a slapstick farce had her condition not been so tragic.

Every August, the Festival of Fools attracts tens of thousands of slapstick - loving people seeking a laugh.

The film's bouts of slapstick and sentiment sit slightly oddly with its downbeat tone, but if Wilson isn't entirely consistent as a character, Harrelson is consistently funny — and if anyone can make a sociable misanthrope believable, he can.

Yep, this is Aardman's first sports movie, filtered through director Park's specific sensibility of slapstick foolishness, with deadpan animal sidekicks, endless puns and actors like Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall and Miriam Margolyes having a lovely time lending their voices to his buck - toothed, beady - eyed Plasticine characters.

The filmmaking always seems to be in service of whatever piece of slapstick or one - liner is on the screen at the moment.

Dissimilar to the title, «Ice Age» is a warm - spirited tale of a group of animals so opposite of each other it leads to a burst of slapstick hilarity.

It was Steve Martin who said, «Comedy isn't pretty,» but it's Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the writer - directors here, who prove it; this is the Dawn of the Dead of slapstick.