Sentences with phrase «out of slapstick»

SpotMini, first unveiled in June 2016, started out as a giraffe - looking chore bot that was pretty terrible at performing tasks around the house, and, in one short clip, hilariously ate it on a cluster of banana peels like a character straight out of a slapstick cartoon.

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The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

Childbirth class is not a big, slapstick group exercise of pushing out the baby like I thought it might be.

The drawn - out death of Fiona's father, a royal frog voiced by John Cleese, is a minor tour de force of pathos and slapstick, and there are some angry trees that do justice to the venerable cinematic tradition of angry trees.

Continuing to turn out box - office bonanzas like Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Edwards briefly jumped on the comedy bandwagon of the mid -»60s with the slapstick epic The Great Race (1965), which the director dedicated to his idols, «Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy.»

Instead, we get plenty of opportunities for fast - paced slapstick, and Gleeson — a fine actor who in recent years has ably demonstrated his versatility in everything from The Last Jedi to Ex Machina to Brooklyn to The Revenant — turns out to be an inspired physical comedian as well.

Ashby's instincts are so off throughout Lookin» To Get Out that he only accentuates his major weaknesses as a filmmaker - plot twists, slapstick, chase sequences and lots of screaming that eschews any character development or scenes of insight.

With its mix of live - action and hyper - real animal animation, Peter Rabbit plays like a country cousin to Paul King's Paddington films, similarly balancing slapstick, absurdism, and a touch of gross - out humor, though without King's transcendently oddball sensibility.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

What transpires from there can only be described as a series of attempts to keep upping the ante on gross - outs, one liners, animal gags, and slapstick that doesn't add up to any kind of elaborate comedy.

Under the cover of slapstick, cheap laughs, raunchy humor, gross - out physical comedy and sheer exploitation, Get Him to the Greek also is fundamentally a sound movie.

The era was also defined by toilet humour, namely that of the Farrelly Brothers, whose sequel here fails to realise that the world - even that of slapstick comedy - has moved on from fart jokes and gross - out nonsense.

Lost in Paris returns slapstick and sight gags, now the fodder or annual Shrek imitators, back to the world of art, with the pratfalling misadventures of two caricatured romantics playing out like a musical.

It's kind of nice that Talt doesn't resort to slapstick - y hijinks or gross - out humor; his screenplay, however functional the characterizations, is at least rooted in the interactions and recognizably human frustrations of those characters.

As well as being a laugh out loud slapstick comedy rendered in gorgeous Lego visuals and crammed with DC Easter eggs and visual jokes, The Lego Batman Movie is one of the best character studies of the Dark Knight out there.

The whole film is wobbly enough that many of scenes could be moved or cut altogether with no effect, with one obvious example being a stop - over in a village, where Snatched makes some half - assed attempts to paint Emily's largely unsympathetic character in a better light and tries (and fails) to mount a gross - out slapstick bit with a cheap - looking CGI tapeworm.

It starts with a concept that's right out of an issue of either Cracked or Mad, with parodies of characters from several different films teaming up with each other for an adventure, but at every turn, it attempts (and fails) to score its laughs via gross - out gags, slapstick, or just the uttering of obscenities... though, of course, it never gets so obscene that they lose their PG - 13 rating.

«Harold and Kumar» is loaded with the kind of gross - out slapstick audiences can expect to find in more recent comedies, but it also includes enough clever humor to make even the most grounded individual respect the finished product.

Slapstick is a strong device with Frank recording the sounds of his gumboots or a toothbrush or when Jon tries out a new method of shaving, which I thought was the film's funniest moment.

From March's battle with a bathroom stall door to the pair's ill - thought - out disposal of a corpse, there are some truly fun and memorable scenes that border on slapstick, and I suppose they're the reason why The Nice Guys is being billed as a comedy.

All three dropped out, and the roles wound up going to less distractingly famous actors, allowing the film to seem less like a bloated Saturday Night Live sketch and more like a tribute to the nearly lost art of expertly timed slapstick.

Even the slapstick in this film has an ugly streak to it, such as when our heroes throw apples at joggers and bikers for fun, or when a gay couple played by Patrick Warburton and Michael Dorn attend Comic - Con to beat the crap out of nerds, simply for being nerds.

It's not slapstick, but you can't take yourself too seriously when the superhero of the movie shrinks down to the size of an ant and has ants that he can manipulate to help him out.

No simple logline can account for the rubbery slapstick, like something out of a morbid Stephen Chow movie; the body horror played for insane laughs; or the existential despair that invades the film like a thief in the night.

Director and co-writer Paul King includes a few big slapstick moments, but they arise naturally out of the character's unfamiliarity with the civilized world, and only one brief burp / fart joke enters the proceedings.

In the Cross Hands pub, a slapstick fight soon breaks out in the men's toilets unveiling «The Blanks» — ass - kicking aliens disguised in human form who are threatening to take over the town, and the rest of the world!

It's a sign of the film's quality that it gets more varied and delightful mileage out of those physical reactions — from the entire cast, delivered with nuanced subtlety — then most other romantic comedies get from profane jokes and clumsy slapstick.

It's just too bad that the slapstick here is completely uninspired, often falling into the cliché territories of characters hitting their heads or falling out of windows, or flashing their genitalia at German soldiers.

Weird weapons like these — which you craft out of ordinary items you find all over the mall — form the backbone of Dead Rising's slapstick take on the zombie apocalypse.

There's slapstick and some gentler verbal humor, and just a bit of gross - out material.

Indeed, the comedian's favoured director Larry Charles (TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm) returns, as does his uneasy combination of slapstick silliness, gross - out gags, juvenile jests, celebrity cameos and political parody, in a film that effortlessly resembles the unruly ridiculousness of his preceding pieces.

Reared on a diet of the genuinely affecting scatological slapsticks of the Farrelly Brothers and the still - fitfully - entertaining product out of Judd Apatow's exhausted factory, we're far more sophisticated in our fringe humour these days.

Martin Scorsese has directed few films that even approach the manic energy of The Wolf of Wall Street, tossing out copious offerings of drugs, nudity and caffeinated slapstick to keep the film barreling through its...

But there are other problems with the film, including the wildly swerving tone from grisly gross - out jokes to absurd wackiness to painful slapstick, but all without the slightest hint of irony or cynicism.

With tired gags, not - too - clever slapstick, and assumed identities that never really pan out to inspired laughs, Greif tries to achieve the semblance of comedy through farcical pacing and progressively hammy acting.

Like the Seller's movies, this script relies heavily on slapstick humor, with some of the gags coming straight out of the original films.

The sci - fi set - up is mostly an excuse for Woody to indulge some fairly slapstick physical comedy revolving around a man quite literally out of time and place.

It is the humorous ridicule of such topics that are thrown out there for you to recognise, but, you can still enjoy the Muppets Most Wanted for its nostalgia and slapstick elements.

For all of Stephen's stroppy opening act, meanwhile, Doctor Strange has a winning sense of humour that keeps the pace zipping along — one sequence in which Strange steals books from under Wong's nose is laugh - out - loud funny, while even Stephen's cloak has a slapstick mind of its own that doesn't cease to amuse.

Thankfully, that warm, funny story is preserved in the middle of this animated feature, stretched out with lots of the usual slapstick and action mayhem.

Unfortunately, once we get into the 9 to 5-esque plot (some might also be reminded of The First Wives Club, Chasing Papi, or John Tucker Must Die) of three women who plane to get a lot of slapstick - tinged revenge on the man who scorned them, nearly all of the sure - footed comedy goes out the door.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be just the latest in a long line of tone - deaf adaptations which fail to recapture any of the magic of the original, in this case substituting slapstick and a mean - spiritedness where there had once been a certain savoir faire combined with a sublime sense of humor.

Their slapstick comedic roles although integral to the story feel out of context and overplayed with regards to the rest of the film and ultimately cheapen it somewhat.

People who go to Corky Romano should be forewarned that Kattan is easily the most irritating thing to twitch its way onto movie screens this fall, and that, out of all the mugs and desperate slapstick that comprise Kattan's performance, there is only a single moment (involving the accidental ingestion of cocaine) that elicits so much as a grin.

It's not the gross - out slapstick, although I think they do that better than most, but rather a level of intelligence and sensitivity that allows them to deliver — under the radar, as it were — strong humanist messages about the objectification of women, the empowerment of people with physical and emotional disabilities, and the importance of establishing in any kind of relationship a measure of compromise and independence.

We didn't make his sophisticated, subtle Shop Girl a hit, so he dishes out what he knows, alas, today's American audiences will gobble up greedily: a painful assemblage of distasteful slapstick (not one but two elderly and infirm folks are abused — by the putative hero, no less — in the opening moments of the film alone), cultural stereotyping, and celebrations of idiocy that will try the patience of anyone with a double - digit IQ or age.

Girded for a similar disaster in Adam Sandler crony Peter Segal's resurrection of the beloved Mel Brooks & Buck Henry cult / camp slapstick television series «Get Smart», imagine my surprise that the picture turned out to be sharp, well - metered, and best of all, kind.

But all of the slapstick humor isn't just gross - out; a lot of these actors have a keen sense of physical comedy, geeky Jason Biggs in particular.