Sentences with phrase «oriented film comedies»
He bumbled and stumbled around in several youth - oriented film comedies, notably as Vincent Price's dimwitted assistant in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1966) and Elvis Presley's careless sidekick in Tickle Me (1965).
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Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).
Tom and Huck is a failed attempt at crafting an effective family oriented comedy, and there's really nothing memorable about the film.
Lost in the cacophony of superheroes, explosions, and raunchy holiday comedies, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS arrives ready to remind us what old - school film was like.
This may be a problem with the structure, of trying to tell each of their three stories in one film, which is also trying to be two different films — the silly, male - oriented gross - out comedy and the silly, female - oriented romantic comedy.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.
But the raunchy, R - rated comedy with an ever - game Ryan Reynolds as Marvel's irreverent mercenary is another showpiece in Marvel's impressive gallery of adult - oriented films and series, which includes Netflix's riveting «Jessica Jones» and the intense «Daredevil.»
Carrell made the film after a string of solid supporting roles in similar ensemble - oriented comedies but before The Office established him a small screen star and plays the role as amiable if socially awkward, with an undercurrent of melancholy in his isolation from the rest of the world.
However, the most accurate precedents for «Happy - Go - Lucky» date farther back still: the film is not so much a new direction for Leigh as a throwback to the gentle character - oriented comedy and wispy, free - form narrative of his breakthrough features «High Hopes» and «Life is Sweet.»
Extra Special: No mainstream Hollywood composer has so beautifully balanced experimental funk with soaring, lush orchestration as Thomas Newman, the scion of a film scoring family whose humble musical beginnings were spent in bands and writing the funky beat - driven scores of such youth - oriented comedies as «Revenge of the Nerds» «Desperately Seeking Susan» and «Real Genius.»
This is also probably going to be more of a comedy than the action - oriented McG films of 2000 and 2003.