Sentences with phrase «only real comedy»

The slapstick is the only real comedy that works, and even that is very miss and rarely hit.

Not exact matches

... iv only just seen this and it saddens me — we are in real bad shape and anyone who loves this club will know bould and wenger is a comedy act — somebody... anybody... step in and save this club from a state of freefall — i was having a decent day, only to come in to this.

This can be anything from the beauty parlor (only real men get pedicures), a romantic comedy at your local movie theater or simply take a yoga class where the male - to - female ratio will most likely be in your favor.

Simplistic and sometimes painfully goofy, this Australian musical comedy only holds the attention by occasionally touching on some real relational issues.

Much of the comedy of Bad Moms (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, 2016)-- a film that is predicated on the very real, paralyzing fear mothers have about being not good enough to their kids (and being judged by others for it)-- falls flat because it starts from an unbelievable place, pushes only some details to their extremes (not really abiding by an «if x, then y» logic), and lurches forth with its plot.

Tempting though it initially is to dismiss this double Sundance - winning coming - of - ager as yet another self - satisfied indie comedy offering only surface charms, the emotional payoff delivered in the tonally uneven third act confirms this as a work of real substance.

There are so many places I'd rather be than in a theatre watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, listening to the reaction elicited by three fleeting full - frontal shots of male nudity and trying for the life of me to understand how a comedy that clocks in at nearly two hours could elicit only one real laugh, maybe two.

A film festival darling with his expressionistic character drama «George Washington» in 2000, he remained on that path with his next three features — «All the Real Girls,» «Undertow» and «Snow Angels» — only to take a hard right turn into the studio comedy arena with «Pineapple Express,» and he stayed on that route with «The Sitter» and «Your Highness.»

Fortunately Daddy's Home 2 not only has Ferrell and Wahlberg doing their thing that worked well the first time, they have real pros in Lithgow and Gibson (in his first comedy since 2000's What Women Want) to come to the rescue.

I hate romantic comedies.And until I saw this movie I didn't know why, I thought I just didn't like the genre.But Love Actually showed me that I usually hate romantic comedies because they just aren't done very well.They are lazy and formulaic.Love Actually is anything but.Its genuine and heartfelt messages come across as natural reflections of the good you can find in the real world.Its funny, sad, uplifting, and exciting all at once.A friend dragged me to this when it first came out, and I can only imagine how much of a fight I put up.I owe that friend.

The only real determination of success for a comedy... does it make you laugh?

This creative production marks Crowe's only real work in a genre outside of comedy - drama and romance.

Reviewing comedies is difficult enough, when the only real thing of importance anyone cares about is whether said movie is funny or not, but how many ways can one say a movie just isn't funny?

Rod Steiger's not particularly good, but he's real funny — the movie tries to be a comedy but Shanley wrote it, so it isn't funny... Alan Rickman has a little bit more fun, with only two really terrible lines, which is quite an achievement in this film.

Director David Yates keeps it a little too earnest, Sam Jackson seems like token comedy as a result; Christoph Waltz looks more and more like a one - trick pony; while Skarsgard is a bit earnest too - so the only real oomph comes from Margot Robbie and surprisingly, Hounsou.

Curtis's forte is the comedy - drama hybrid, but there are only a few pokes at real emotions here, each dutifully accompanied by an illustrative song.

All of these films will join the others we've been announcing over the last few months at this new edition of the Festival, marked by the new manifestations of evil, as is the case with Only God Forgives, the new film from Nicolas Winding Refn; Jim Jarmusch's most recent work, Only Lovers Left Alive, a unique story of eternal love between two vampires; a bizarre, surreal, comedy from Roman Coppola, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III; The Congress, the spectacular Stanislaw Lem adaptation directed by Ari Folman; Real, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's return to fantastic cinema; or La danza de la realidad, the new work by multifaceted Alejandro Jodorowski.

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

Very much in the vein of The Hangover, only this time it's a makeshift family as opposed to a group of four guys, this rude and crude comedy has some real snap to the dialogue and a real chemistry emerging slowly between the fake fam.

The only real issue with this drivers ed course is that the comedy used is a «slapstick» style comedy.