Sentences with phrase «piece of slapstick»

The filmmaking always seems to be in service of whatever piece of slapstick or one - liner is on the screen at the moment.

Not exact matches

The script is little more than a string of excuses for various skits and slapstick set pieces but the laughs flow much more freely than in Singapore.

In fact, you can look forward to seeing all three of these in the latest Matthew McConaughey / Sarah Jessica Parker vehicle «Failure to Launch,» but here are a few things you won't expect: Terry Bradshaw's bare - naked ass, a mockingbird receiving mouth - to - mouth resuscitation, and plenty more I - can't - believe - that - just - happened slapstick set pieces.

Having already directed the first two (and superior) X-Men films, Singer shows a level of comfort with both the material and the cast, and he contributes at least one brilliant comic set piece in which new mutant Quicksilver (Evan Peters) lays waste to a kitchen full of security guards in languorous, Matrix - style bullet time (it looks gorgeous and has the slapstick choreography of a Three Stooges routine).

Like its predecessor, «Paddington 2» is a clever delight of visual invention and wit; this sequel draws particularly from the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for its ingenious slapstick action set pieces, while the screenplay by director Paul King and Simon Farnaby packs the dialogue with fun wordplay and tiny details that pay off in major comic ways.

It's hard to get a handle on the tone of the piece, jarring as it does back and forth between slapstick and mordancy in a way too clumsy to be fruitful.

An animated robot love story with an environmental theme and a slapstick delivery, WALL • E is a charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.

Though the slapstick mostly flounders, the film is even less successful when it calls upon these three to be the villains of the piece, as it does later on.

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.

Alas, Binder tries to tread the line between philosophy and farce, satire and slapstick, and with so many contrasting story devices, the imbalance of mood finally does the film in as a potentially intelligent piece of entertainment.

But the film meanders, relying heavily on slapstick visual gags (one of the staples of the studios» 1960s live action pieces, which seem heavy - handed and quite dated today).

When the movie goes after bigger comic set pieces than improv - friendly «you look like...» runs (e.g., «you look like burn - victim Barbie»), it tends to get a little dodgy, as with a long sequence of weird sexually tinged slapstick at a spa.

She riffed on the venerable tradition of slapstick in her 2006 piece Target Practice, a wall covered in smashed pie tins that was shown at MoMA PS1.

Six singers, all classically trained, give a pitch perfect performance of a piece that lists every comedy accident in the slapstick handbook.

A delightful meeting of beautiful and provocative pieces offset by the Charlie Chaplin-esque Maple Leaf Ragtime by Scott Joplin that emmanates from a small room, where Appau Junior Boakye - Yiadom's playfully slapstick intermittant film plays.

«I hope for the piece to appear like a comedic slapstick duo with their infinite back - and - forth movements, while also commenting on the rapid commercial development of the downtown Miami area.