Sentences with phrase «on pratfalls»

It's so apparent, this Freudian subtext, and yet so wasted on pratfalls and John going from normal to crazy as soon as the script requires him to.

It relies heavily on pratfalls and physical comedy, earning only the occasional light chuckle from either.

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I was bullish on the Wolfpack despite the obvious potential pratfalls:

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.

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.

But they put romance on the back burner while focusing on race and ethnicity as Leonardo bonds with his fellow Mexicans on a pool - building job, even as they initially mock his smooth «lady hands» and allow him to pratfall through his first day.

The comedy, however, is also heavy on slapstick, pratfalls and crazy disguises.

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.

, this film relies on ensemble acting, visual gags, bedpan jokes and pratfalls to achieve its scattershot effect.

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).

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.

The pratfalls, the double takes, the slow burns, the fast burns, the inspired magpie badinage between Gus and his dim - bulb accomplice Murray — Leary hits one after another dead on.

Tired and uninspired, the movie has no clue how to draw out its sitcom setup and relies entirely on weak pratfalls and schmaltz that's so sappy it provides the bulk of the laughs.

Hold on to your granny pants and brace yourselves: a third Bridget Jones movie is in development, and it looks as though Renee Zellweger will return to the role of the desperate 30 - something as she continues to pratfall her way through life.

Completely overrun by pratfalls, slapstick, and mean - spiritedness, Christmas with the Kranks never even comes close to being a satire on the falseness of the spirit of Christmas, especially when it tries to be all warm and fuzzy as it nears the end.

Lean and lively, he's at the peak of his powers, from rubber - faced histrionics and flailing pratfalls to gleeful sarcasm and dead - on impersonations.

But based on how they proceed to behave, it seems that all they've been missing out on is the sort if formulaic slapstick and sophomoric behavior one might find in a typical teensploit, such as pratfalls, preening, potty humor, skinny dipping, ogling women, boozing it up, and participating in gay panic homophobia.

Vicarious Visions, who developed the original Skylanders game on 3DS, handled the port, and with the exception of a few logistical pratfalls, it's the best version of the game.

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.

This new take on the material reverses the genders of the leads, but mostly tells the same story — with more pratfalls.

While many comedy actors can do a pratfall or smear bodily fluids on their face for a laugh, Leslie Nielsen possesses an enriched talent that's really too good for many of the cheaper parodies he's been a part of.

Someone who can take a pratfall has to be lovable for the audience to connect; God knows, when he turns on the charm, Denzel Washington makes lovable look easy.

There is little reliance on obvious pratfalls or photogenic animals to provide the cuteness that marks and sometimes hinders a number of the studio's other live action comedies.

Falling into same the pratfalls of Ayer's previous effort, Fury, Suicide Squad is another case where story elements are continuously piled on in the hopes that a coherent narrative arc will emerge.

So don't feel like you have to put on clown shoes and take pratfalls.

The conversation unfolds on levels that are excellent for laypeople outside publishing to hear but fully viable for us bookish folks who follow the predictions and pratfalls of the digital dynamic with excruciating, incremental care.

«Pratfall Tramps,» a group show about women, comedy, and performance, closes at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on Saturday, April 11.

Hanging opposite the elevators on the new Whitney's fifth floor, as a kind of preamble to «Frank Stella: A Retrospective,» are Pratfall (1974), a precise arrangement of 12 concentric squares in contrapuntal grays that sucks the viewer into its black core; six untitled photographs, from the late 1980s, of curling smoke that looks like jellyfish, or ink dispersing in water; and Earthquake in Chile (1999), a 40 - foot - long, turgid mess of a painting.

Her favourite subjects include «cross-species romance, dogs with itchy butts, drunk people barfing, strange fish, cloud formations, car crashes with test dummies flying out of them, weird glitches from video games that force human bodies into unnatural contortions, hilarious porn scenes, baby pratfalls, animals with clothes on, dogs humping unsuspecting humans, people wanking, kangaroos wanking, bears wanking» — anything outrageous, raunchy or abject.

«In work after work you see the same calculation peeking its tongue - wagging little head out of the art [which is] lewd and long on visual pratfalls.»

Khari Johnson's review at VentureBeat focuses on the perks and pratfalls of the Pixel Buds featuring Google Assistant and the new Translate feature, but noted that the latter isn't much better than what you get with Google's language services on other platforms.