Fret not: Such high - mindedness has little diminished MacFarlane's appetite for locker - room humor, gross -
out sight gags and bounteous pop - culture in - jokes, which should make «Ted 2» the season's go - to attraction for arrested - adolescent males of all ages, and continue Universal's beary good summer box office.
The jokes rely very heavily on gross -
out sight gags and toilet humor.
Their career - defining gross -
out sight gags have never been my cup of tea, but just about every one of their films (including their latest, Hall Pass) is driven by an unmistakable — perhaps surprising — humanity.
The «American Pie» franchise throws in another kitchen sink of gross -
out sight gags by screenwriter Adam Herz («American Pie» 1 and 2) in this third, and hopefully final installment, of percolating testosterone commotion.
We know there's going to be a heap of gross -
out sight gags and to also expect the worst.
Not exact matches
They
gag at the
sight of him taunting, teasing and tormenting opponents before taking them
out.
Early Man, which goes
out in the UK through Studiocanal on January 26 and Lionsgate in the US on Feburary 16 — the same team as Shaun The Sheep Movie, which grossed $ 106m worldwide in 2015 — scores highly on amiable charm,
sight gags and open goal word play; however, it lacks the nifty footwork and originality of the best Aardman pictures.
They also get inspired laughs
out of a couple of slow - percolating
sight gags and, graphically, from queasy Max suffering a bullet wound.
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.
Rather than be an elegant, moving tale about Christmas» ability to bring
out the inner - child in us all, Arthur Christmas sticks to repetitive
sight gags and awful — and I do mean AWFUL — dialogue puns.
Frank McKlusky C.I. has about a handful of witty lines, about one or two decent
sight gags, and an overall goofiness that keeps it from being
out - and -
out detestable (although often flirting with it.)
For a large portion of the film, it's a broad comedy with
sight gags, gross
out moments (an entire sequence dedicated to vomiting) and over the top characterizations.
Scott Pilgrim is packed to the gills with laugh -
out - loud moments, whether it's the delivery of a familiar line, a
sight gag, or an artfully deployed middle finger.
Stale jokes and cringe - inducing
sight gags punctuate this creaky romantic comedy about longtime gal pals (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen) jolted
out...
The source of the film's one surefire
sight gag, he also provides a deadpan running commentary as a reprogrammed imperial security droid who starts
out loyal solely to Cassian but develops a grudging affection for Jyn, too.
While a few of the quips and
sight gags might elicit a mild chuckle now and then, for most of the running length, the juvenile - minded writing and
out - and -
out silliness never really approach the sharpness or juicy satirical qualities that would suggest an inspired, realized concept.
The film doesn't rely on gross -
out jokes or
sight gags either, its humor is mostly derived through crude, profane dialogue.
The ominous Godfather in that film turns
out to be a shrew, a wonderful
sight gag; here the mobsters are Russian, so they have to be bears.
Well, this tale of a boy and his dog — rethought as a dinosaur and his boy — turns
out to be a mixed bag, with some dazzlingly near - photo - real landscapes,
sight gags that inspire waves of kiddie guffaws, and some impressive character animation sharing time with an overly familiar plot and character types.
The results not only deliver plenty of fun
sight gags, but also effectively flesh
out the worlds behind the arcade screens.
Elegant, intimate and always playful (watch
out for some old - fashioned back projection and one of the
sight gags of the year), Pablo Larraín's latest comes to UK cinemas hot on the heels of Jackie (although he filmed it first).
Falcone also stages a number of ingenious
sight gags, most of them having to deal with the youngsters who have bonded together to make the growing brownie business a success, while a joke involving a foldaway couch got me to laugh
out loud even though I saw it coming from a million miles away.
Clever
sight gags abound in Shrek the Halls, a holiday treat
out on DVD Tuesday.
There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the
sight gag with the
sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run
out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.
Given that Rodriguez has built his entire career
out of recyling ideas, it's definitely to his credit that Machete Kills manages to elicit occasional giggles
out of amusingly outlandish set pieces and
sight gags.
Seeing heads transplanted between humans and Chihuahuas might have seemed like a funny, surreal
sight gag on paper, but it plays
out like a mildly horrific turn of events when you see it on the big screen.
There's an
out - of - nowhere stabbing to rival Psycho's, but also sublime
sight gags like a corpse stashed in a retractable sofa bed and a birthday cake that gets squished before it can be entered into police evidence.
Employing as much adult oriented humor as kid - aimed cracks, Hotel Transylvania «s script includes some smart one - liners, funny
sight gags and rude jokes (often about fecal matter), most of which are more chuckle - worthy than laugh -
out - loud.
They're built around characters as opposed to
sight gags or gross -
out humor and I miss that.
Its charms lie in the lush animation (every character and object in the film have a fabric - like quality), kinetic energy, and an abundance of giggle - inducing
sight gags (the audience at the Debussy theater especially enjoyed a bit where a scared troll pooped
out cupcakes).
Perhaps it wouldn't be laugh -
out - loud funny, or even worthy of a smile, but the knowledge that this feeble
sight gag is the best joke that they could muster for that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 makes it abysmally painful to endure.
Nonetheless, fans of infantile gross -
out gags might appreciate being treated to the
sight of MacGruber's pimply posterior as he prances across the screen buck naked with a stalk of celery stuck in his anal cleft for no apparent reason beyond comic relief.
THE GOOD: GOLDMEMBER continues the funny
sight gags (reminiscent of, and sometimes plagiarized, from Benny Hill) and some of them are laugh -
out - loud hilarious.
Yet the horror mixes with
sight gags, like outsize hands for Sylvia Palacios Whitman and TV clowns for Ralston Farina — and the performers seek comfort in letting it all hang
out.