Sentences with phrase «on sight gags»

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.

The talent has to rely primarily on sight gags, obviously, and Oram has a flair for presentation.

The short runs entirely on sight gags, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your tastes.

Director Stoller and writers Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien are graduates of the Judd Apatow school of studio humor, and so are well - versed in cooking up a comedy that adheres to a certain recipe: bookending the picture with big set - pieces, and then linking those set - pieces with a series of fast - paced episodes that rely chiefly on sight gags and as many obscenities as possible.

Kovacs» specials are big on sight gags, recurring scenarios, and surreal imagery.

But it got by on sight gags and heart, and a nice dynamic between hotel manager Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) and his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), as she broke with monster tradition to romance a human.

Not exact matches

Kids meltdown when they smell dinner cooking or gag at the sight of a spoon on the table.

The joke, of course, refers to GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's unfortunate LCA Show response, during which the sight gag that was supposed to spoof on Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's mustache failed because the former Long Island congressman misplaced his nose wig.

There are gigglesome set - pieces, witty sight gags, clever one - liners and references that actually skewer their original source rather than just replicate them for the recognition factor - Megamind's Obama - like «No You Can't» posters get a laugh every time they pop up on screen.

The sight gags and deadpanning from the crew are nowhere to be found, leaving the burden of engagement squarely on the shoulders of a featherweight story which simply does not do enough to carry it.

Early Man, which goes out in the UK through Studiocanal on January 26 and Lionsgate in the US on Feburary 16 — the same team as Shaun The Sheep Movie, which grossed $ 106m worldwide in 2015 — scores highly on amiable charm, sight gags and open goal word play; however, it lacks the nifty footwork and originality of the best Aardman pictures.

The script leans heavily on pop culture references — a plague of just about every recent comedy — but it isn't entirely lazy, with successful sight gags and one painfully realistic failed round of Celebrity.

It would be excusable if the one - liners and sight gags were actually, you know, funny, but having Optimus and his gang act like impatient 5 - year - olds and getting peed on by dogs is anything but.

In terms of the hilarious hijinks that ensue, Annie uses what she's only heard in movies to get some bad guys to the ground with a gun she doesn't think is real and later cares for a bullet wound with improvised drug - store items; Max makes a mess of a white dog and a shrine of photos inside a neighbor's home; and during the climactic showdown on an airplane tarmac, there is a very funny sight gag involving a very slow conveyor belt.

On DVD, the Farrellys provide audio commentary for the film and 11 deleted scenes, ranging from seconds - long sight gags to longish, well - developed segments (some were cut because the film had built up too many melodramatic scenes back to back, the Farrellys note).

Refreshing, in these times, to find a spoof on a genre of films that isn't just a rattling off of pop culture references and obvious sight gags, though Shaun of the Dead is still a favorite for many audiences.

In part due to the tone Waititi helped cast over the proceedings and the script which leans heavier into sight gags and tete - a-tat quips and barbs, much of the responsibility lays on the delivery of the actors who all perform.

Instead, it relies on a steady stream of biting one - liners and sight gags.

Aside from a quick, one - shot sight gag involving Wilson and a bunch of balloons, on a trip to a zoo, Johnson overemphasizes the comedy and strains for the sentimental connection.

As a comedy, it might make you smirk or lightly chuckle on a couple of occasions, mostly due to a few low - scale, size - related sight gags, but it's doubtful you'll be quoting the film for any hilarious one - liners once you leave the theater.

This being a comedic spin, the movie, with Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum 2, Cheaper By the Dozen 2) directing with the blandness that has come to be his stock in trade, includes a «hilarious» pot - smoking scene, repeated sight gags centered on Fonda's enormous breasts, her grandkid's morning poop sessions and a last - minute gay twist that feels as contrived as the rest of Jonathan Tropper's script (based on his best - selling novel).

Lost in Paris The latest by married couple Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon pulls off the tricky feat of getting formalistic whimsy just right, creating a Jacques - Tati - on - a-shoestring romance that never misses an opportunity for a sight gag or other lightweight silliness.

There would be nothing wrong with that, of course, but for a good hour or so Payne makes both excellent sight gags and interesting comment on consumerist society.

Although much of the humor and tone of the film is on par with it's original source, the sight gags and puns type humor was done to death by better films like Airplane!

I think I worked on that picture for over four months and all I did were sight gags.

Gilliam and his co-screenwriters (an uncredited Charles Alverson (Jabberwocky), Charles McKeown and most famously, Tom Stoppard worked on it on and off over six years) stuff the film with subversive bon mots, furiously paced slapstick and sight gags, and the blackest of humour — it is at once thrilling and hilarious.

Having served as assistant director to Jacques Tati on Mon Oncle and appeared in Bresson's Pickpocket, Etaix produced a series of comedies that retain Tati's situational humor and sight gags but move away from his Hulot - specific qualities — instead creating more diverse roles for himself, including a Keaton-esque loner, a rags - to - riches clown, and a married businessman smitten with his secretary.

This is supposed to be a funny sight gag but it only foreshadows the script's reliance on obnoxious behavior.

The jokes rely very heavily on gross - out sight gags and toilet humor.

And yet, whilst the value of the inane antics depicted will depend on the viewer's threshold for tired toilet humour, simple sight gags and jokes about electronic methods of communication, the film's quest to garner cheap laughs eclipses any earnest effort to warm hearts or convey a suitably sentimental message about cherishing the old whilst accepting the new.

They fused the slapstick of the silent era with the outlandish sound effects of radio, focused on elaborate sight gags during an age of ceaseless dialogue, and were zealously committed to their Neanderthal worldview.

While the movie does have a handful of verbal puns, sight gags, and slapstick humor that fly, based on Carrey and Daniels» commitment, a number of gags fall to the floor, the opening catheter gag for instance.

In one of many sight gags based on other movies, they lie down and kiss as the surf washes over them, reminiscent of «From Here to Eternity.»

Especially early on, the movie alternates innocuously lame sight gags like a dog wearing a bike helmet with jokes about anal sex and webcam masturbation.

The question remains is whether or not this hushed take on the genre can find enough brave souls willing to try a different and raw take on an concept often represented by cheap sight gags.

Eventually, everyone gets in on the act, in various combinations and through a series of goofy sight gags — cue our old friend, the furiously wobbling camper van.

Atrocities are followed by jokey riffs and sight gags, and what links them is not a creative sensibility (as would be the case in a Quentin Tarantino movie) but a carnival barker's desperate need to hold on to a distracted audience's attention.»

The film doesn't rely on gross - out jokes or sight gags either, its humor is mostly derived through crude, profane dialogue.

Director Ivan Reitman's wacky comedic sensibility ignites the hilarity of the situation, particularly with a swell of nifty sight gags and visual slants on the trappings of power.

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.

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).

Every few minutes, Deadpool 2 does something unexpected; indeed, the cameos, easter eggs and sight gags come at such a furious clip, one suspects that it'd be impossible to catch all of them on first viewing.

Clever sight gags abound in Shrek the Halls, a holiday treat out on DVD Tuesday.

There is a running gag with townspeople and slaves alike struggling to accept the sight of Django on a horse.

There's the trope of the disengaged dad (a warm and shaggy Ron Livingston) and even a sight gag about stepping on stray Legos, barefoot.

Seeing heads transplanted between humans and Chihuahuas might have seemed like a funny, surreal sight gag on paper, but it plays out like a mildly horrific turn of events when you see it on the big screen.

In the script, I of course knew there would be some sight gags for the audience to get in on, but for the character, he's totally unaware how funny he is.

Fresh from their time on The LEGO Movie, directors Chris Lord and Phil Miller are as sharp and anarchic as ever, precisely piecing things together before blowing them up — and still finding time to shoehorn in Benny Hill references and endless sight gags, not to mention violent squids.

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.

It might have gone over some audience members» heads — that's the joy of it, really — but it also had a profound effect on film: Here is the birth of all those deliciously crude «Airplane» - style sight gags.