Sentences with phrase «one's comic talents»

Her considerable comic talents are impossible to find here in a film that feels like it's from a different era in a bad way.
But he did, and he took the edge off some great comic talent in the process.
This film has been on the shelf for over a year despite impressive comic talent, and that cast may be the only thing keeping the film from straight - to - video status.
Surely someone amid the three directors and nine writers could have found a way to take advantage of so many comic talents.
The film totally wastes the great comic talent of Luis Guzman, giving him not much to do other than wear a hilarious Robin costume at the film's intro.
Cedric the Entertainer is also around to provide second - banana back - up jokes; given the amount of heavy - hitting comic talent on display here, this may be the one sitcom this season that we love so much we wan na take it out back and get it pregnant.
Wasting comic talents like Rudd and Fey should come with consequences.
This Is Littleton is a character - based sketch comedy series starring the best and brightest new comic talent from Australia.
After watching «Super Troopers,» it's evident that the men of Broken Lizard are brimming with comic talent, but they still have a long way to gobefore reaching the high standards set by past comedy troupes like Monty Python.
I loved Shandling, so watching the footage made me a little sad, knowing we lost such a great comic talent... check it out, and tune in March 26!
Studios think they can just cast comic talents as eccentric characters and put them amid debaucheries and criminal acts, hoping the underdeveloped screenplay would bounce effectively between situations.
Ghostbusters featured an excellent crew of comic talent such as Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis.
As the titular ex-CIA man, White reveals comic talents to match his martial artistry, delivering one - liners and roundhouse kicks with the same killer precision.
Williams career spanned decades, from TV to a series of blockbuster films, from acclaimed dramas to his timeless comic talents.
With cameos from chums Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn, the film smacks of self - indulgence, but throws enough comic talent at the screen to make it stick.
Despite the presence of two of Disney's finest comic talents of the decade, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo feels like a big step down from the first two films.
It stars comic talent Mark Duplass (co-creator and star of Togetherness but probably best known as Pete from The League), Olivia Wilde (Rush, Tron: Legacy, any number of cute rom - coms), Donald Glover (Troy from Community), Evan Peters (Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past, not to be confused with Quicksilver from Avengers: Age of Ultron) and Sarah Bolger (Princess Aurora from TV's Once Upon a Time.)
But the scripting is lazy and repetitive, and Rauch's undeniable comic talents are stretched thin.
and emerging comic talent Janicza Bravo's «Lemon.»
Chris Hemsworth, popping up as Rusty's conservative, beef - loving, big dicked, brother - in - law, exudes charisma and potentially promising comic talent that is wholly underserved.
There's a deep well of New York comic talent — but Allen rarely works in New York now.
The film was first pitched as a black Ocean's Eleven that would pair producer / star Eddie Murphy with a who's - who of black comic talent, and climax with a heist involving Donald Trump and the Trump Tower.
If Gordon - Levitt is still left wanting for a perfect comic vehicle, The Night Before also employs a deep bench of female comic talent that includes Bell, Mindy Kaling, Ilana Glazer, and a slightly underused Lizzy Caplan.
In «The Actors», Caine gets the chance not only to play a struggling and slightly bitter thespian, but also to display his not - inconsiderable comic talent (having made us chortle heartily in both «Goldmember» and «Dirty Rotten Scoundrels», it hardly comes as a surprise that he knows how to produce a laugh or three).
Jamie Lee Curtis displays a surprising comic talent as triple - crossing seductress Wanda.
Jonathan Levine's Snatched flies in with a lot of wide - reaching and intelligent comic talent and only asks them to make a mess.
At last, Melissa McCarthy has a vehicle worthy of her prodigious comic talent: Spy is her funniest film to date.
Leading the ensemble is Rachel McAdams who's positively luminous as Becky; proving yet again what a terrific, underappreciated comic talent she is.
Fans of Community and Parks and Recreation are already well aware of the astounding comic talents of these two actors, and they easily net the movie's biggest laughs.
One of Chaplin's most ingenious shorts, this stunning showcase for his solo comic talents sees him playing a drunken man returning home to navigate his apartment.
Ferrell is, after all, a marvellous comic talent (he won me over last year with «Elf», the best live - action comedy of 2003 and a piece of work I'm willing to wager he'll never better) and «Anchorman» is, after a bit of a slow start, a very good comedy.
The bright - eyed comic talent is now starring in the popular sitcom New Girl on Fox as another quirky and offbeat chick with a sense of humor trying to figure out life in her early thirties.
I think he's one of the edgiest, most original comic talents of the last quarter - century.
June Squibb is also at the table, as the former nanny of the bride, so that's another sizable comic talent wasted on bad material.
Tatum has proven himself a facile comic talent, but his dramatic skills to this point have been lackluster at best.Yet here he brings a brooding, insecure competitor to life in every facet of his performance.
Opportunities for major comic talents who happen to be women remain stupidly limited in Hollywood.
It also manages to squander the formidable comic talent of Amy Schumer, who proved conclusively that she can carry this sort of film in Trainwreck.
On Friday afternoon at WonderCon in Los Angeles, top comics talent gathered downtown to talk the latest from Marvel publishing.
But I'd bet a shiny nickel that at the very least, the Archie comic talent will be at Sonic Boom.
The film around her is fit to burst with other actors also equipped with considerable comic talents.
But poor poor Merchant and Revolori, two ace comic talents in their own rights shoved into nerdy stereotypes.
Akhavan upped sticks to the U.K. this year, developing a comedy about a bisexual woman for the BBC «s Channel 4 — let's hope we get to see it some time in 2016, because she's one of the sharpest new comic talents we've seen in a long while.
To say it's the best of their three collaborations might be underselling the film's appeal since the other two films — «Tammy» and «The Boss» — didn't make the best use of McCarthy's considerable comic talents.
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