Sentences with phrase «piece than a comedy»

I think this also becomes more of a character piece than a comedy.

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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).

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Debut writer - director Chris Kelly, a writer on «SNL,» digs in rather than relying on contrived, movie - ready set pieces (as in the similar «The Hollars»), making this gay «Garden State» rich with naturalistic comedy as well as beautifully touching moments.

Someone should've told Bergie that black comedies require more than grisly deaths and scant pieces of hystericaly aimless dialogue to qualify as plausible cinema.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

It's classified as a comedy for the purposes of the Golden Globes, but there are fewer jokes than there were in The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie this evokes enough to categorize as a spiritual sequel or companion piece.

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Instead of an innovative romantic comedy, we sadly get unlikable characters and a series of goofy set pieces that ultimately fizzles out faster than Nat and Josh's marriage.

Rather than really developing these issues narratively, the film unfolds with a series of action / comedy set pieces.

It's a road movie and character piece more than the action comedy it's occasionally marketed as and Brest never lets any set pieces or gags get in the way of the journey made by the leads, physically or emotionally.

In Carl Matheson «s early aughties piece on the humour of TVs The Simpsons, he talks about something he calls hyper - irony: «The flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on a sense of world - weary cleverer - than - thou - ness.»

As a result, the movie plays more like a screwball comedy than a violent action thriller, though it contains many pieces of the latter and hardly any of the former.

Nonetheless, the picture comes long on spectacle and comedy, and it moves more quickly than one might expect of such a long piece.

There are also more than a few macabre laughs — the piece is cowritten by Nyman and Jeremy Dyson of the comedy troupe League of Gentleman.

Although the piece is more situation (bitter) comedy than anything, there is a plot.

Yes it's more than two and a half hours long (and, by the way, could do with pruning) but Maren Ade's comedy boasts two fascinating characters and a string of surreal set - pieces that you can't afford to miss.

The film, which offers a fictionalised account of the events of 2002, is more comedy than serious political piece, with proceedings bordering on farce rather than satire.

Insidious certainly redressed this imbalance by damping the comedy and amping the scares — and this remake also puts more emphasis than the original on fright - filled set - pieces, multiplying the clown dolls, showing us a limbo full of writhing, gooey corpses, and even throwing in some power - tool peril for good measure.

Rather than the carefree, laugh - a-minute, hanging with buddies, offbeat comedy it's presented to be, it's actually a rather dramatic observation piece on adult responsibilities and the changes we go through with marriage, kids, jobs, and so on.