Sentences with phrase «on zaniness»

But a broad comedy curiously light on zaniness, antics, gags, stunts, or any sustained sense of attempted mirth is a strange beast, especially when it refuses to outright give up and become a dramedy.

The success of an Adam Sandler movie now depends on the zaniness of the script and the energy of the movie is dependant on Sandler's co-stars.

It's a throwback to old screwball comedies where anything could happen without having to make sense, and it relies on that zaniness to drive laughs rather than pairing it with rapid - fire jokes like an Airplane!

Superhero movies should be funny, and this massively entertaining success — based on Marvel's 1969 spinoff title — doubles down on the zaniness.

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In a photo recently posted to Instagram, Floyd Mayweather, the boxer, sits on a private jet surrounded by stacks of dollar bills, touting the sale of tokens for a prediction market called Stox — a moment some saw as proof that ICO hype had reached peak zaniness.

Some of the better actors get too animated once the spotlight inexplicably shifts on them, as though the zaniness of the whole movie depends on them shining like comic stars.

Regardless of how you feel about his personal antics, there's no denying that Gibson is a talented actor, and his mixture of charm, danger and zaniness (all qualities that made Martin Riggs an action movie icon) are on full display in director Jean - François Richet's darkly comic thriller.

A new fan - produced video compilation reminds us of the zaniness of Captain America's 1960s adventures on the animated Marvel Super Heroes.

Instead of wearing a suit that is split down the middle by a terrible tailor, complete with animal prints and other colorful zaniness, Two Face's suit here keeps it mundane work - week, though frayed and lived - in on his bad side.

Some big - name examples are the acid (lysergic and otherwise) zaniness of Otto Preminger's Skidoo, or the whiff of Aquarius that Jack Nicholson carries into Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

It's certainly more eccentric than the standard Academy - favored picture, and occupies a register of zaniness that the august body could deem a little too lightweight and beneath its dignity (which is perhaps what happened with «Moonrise Kingdom «-RRB-, but on the other hand it's a movie that loves movies and that is unmistakably the product of a very singular and meticulous directing approach.

While the first film had its odd plot developments (like the previously - abducted pilot who wanted to fight the aliens as revenge for their experimentation on him), this one embraces its zaniness with a zest for the outrageous.

The soundtrack to Pit People is by Patric Catani, who also worked on BattleBlock, and it's a good sonic complement to the game's visual zaniness.

New York artist Carroll Dunham makes figurative paintings and sculptures that frequently draw on that uniquely American dovetailing of Surrealism and cartoon idioms, of which the late Philip Guston would be an obvious instance, resounding with a libidinous zaniness.