Sentences with phrase «played for laughs»

That could be because his Snap - CV was funny but ultimately didn't show that he genuinely had the experience and skills needed; he played it for laughs, rather than trying to actually impress a hiring manager.

The marketing wheeze is being played for laughs by the Colonel's social media minions, with a cable news - style feed on Facebook showing a live bitcoin price tracker and gags such as «trade your digital tender for chicken tenders» and «bitcoin is down, invest in buckets instead».

Drinking, or more specifically being drunk, is played for laughs in Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and Sea of Thieves.

If it's not already evident, they were completely fabricated, and played for laughs, although there was always the suspicion that some readers took them at face value.

Perhaps if any of Devil's Third was played for laughs, it could be tolerable.

It would be nice to see homosexual characters that aren't just played for laughs in a game.

Also new is Sunset Overdrive, a shooter - action game that can be played for laughs - a game that doesn't take itself too seriously, a rarity in the field.

Drinking, or more specifically being drunk, is played for laughs in Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and Sea of Thieves.

Yep, it's played for laughs, but it's pretty much Pynchon as usual.

The training scenes are played for laughs — especially the gruff deadpan humor of Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips (a Men in Black - style role he could play in his sleep) and the flirtations between Rogers and his comely British superior Peggy Carter (buxom caricature Hayley Atwell).

The working through of Irish masculinity is played for laughs; there is one scene in which the group of lads find themselves naked in the woods (wearing only cavemen-esque attire), as Fionnan and Davin begin to talk through their feelings and emotion is at an all - time high.

Everything is played for laughs, with no shame in the silly, sometimes embarrassing antics in order to try to get you to finally submit and (Oedekirk hopes) laugh your ass off.

The latter overwhelm the movie to such an extent that much of the material comes across as unintentionally comic (One scene that is played for laughs involves Cross and Kane arguing which of them will use the severed thumb of the first victim to open a safe, which is just strange after seeing how disgusted the characters are over the torture of the woman).

From the movie's ads, you'd probably expect a cheesy summer cash - in featuring hot babes and a flimsy story played for laughs, but those low expectations will either please viewers hoping for something a cut above poor or disappoint those looking for cheap thrills.

In the film's defense, the dialogue itself is fine and often amusing (save for a few cheap stereotyping jabs played for laughs), complete with a reoccurring joke of analogies mentioning gorillas.

Another scene with Jeff at one of his lowest moments driving drunk with the help of his friends, is played for laughs and doesn't advance the script or the narrative.

It's all played for laughs but in reality it's plum revolting, and while Vaughn and frequent collaborator Jane Goldman's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) try to soften things by making Eggsy ambivalent about the task at hand, if anything this only acerbates that grotesque nastiness of the situation a substantial degree.

Doyle's folksiness and thick twang are played for laughs, but his Western bona fides — complete with a mouth full of false teeth from his days as a horse wrangler — are revered in the manner of No Country For Old Men's Sheriff Ed Tom Bell or The Big Lebowski's nameless stranger.

Youngest siblings of the Penvensie family, Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley), are joined by their thin - skinned cousin Eustace (played for laughs by Will Poulter).

The same elephants whose militaristic marches were played for laughs before are treated with reverence, their passing prompting genuflection for the creators of this jungle.

«Romeo and Juliet» played for laughs, as a cute Latino teen (Joey Haro) knocks up his Anglo girlfriend (Ella Rae Peck) and the two families need to get along.

Wisely self - deprecating, and totally played for laughs, this updated Jump Street features one of the best comic duos I've seen in years.

She is a surprisingly competent action heroin, her actual prowess when it comes to the action, being played both for laughs and complimenting the action side of things.

This is purely played for laughs, and at times the comedic timing reminded of the older Warner Brothers animated shorts.

There is a lot of brutal violence which is usually played for laughs and most of the time it is quite funny but it definitely won't be for everyone.

There isn't a single gun fired and the most graphic conflict involves a telephone and is played for laughs.

He doesn't mean to, but it's played for laughs.

Oppositely, ditzy, flighty Karen Weston, played for laughs by Juliette Lewis, has made herself scarce for years.

The murders in Tragedy Girls are played for laughs, which is hard to reconcile since they are all deliberate, cold - blooded homicides, yet Sadie and McKayla are engaging enough as leads to keep the audience invested.

In the»60s, scenes of basketball, track and field, and race car driving were always played for laughs in films like The Absent - Minded Professor, Blackbeard's Ghost and The Love Bug.

If you've seen the trailer for «Tully,» you probably thought it was about a beleaguered mom of two, with one on the way, whose exhaustion is played for laughs.

We won't spoil it here, but as you might expect from the universe shattering stakes of the highly anticipated sequel, it isn't played for laughs.

With a more conscientious budget and featuring comedians rather than dramatic actors, can Game Night pull off a low - budget thriller played for laughs while suspending disbelief?

Riggs vs. King played for a global televised audience in 1973; here it's played for both laughs and drama by directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.

Initially the concept of Po only just realising he's been adopted (his «father» is a goose) is nicely played for laughs.

There's also a wonderful supporting role that, while played for laughs, finds just the right level of fun and silliness that made the first film work so well.

But don't expect to see more than a lazy, played for laughs impression of Assange, as Benedict puts in one of the worst performances of the entire year.

But there isn't a single moment of proper suspense, mainly because it's all played for laughs: as if senile old people are hilarious.

And Franco, with long hair and colored contact lenses, captures Wiseau perfectly: As a character in The Disaster Artist, he's is played for laughs, of course, but there's something so empathetic in Franco's portrayal that you understand him as a person.

First Reformed is a film that starts off slow and somewhat boring and ends up being a complete joke, with Toller's crisis of faith almost played for laughs.

I hear and see repeated cliches around every corner that are only played for laughs because of mild physical comedy.

Bigfoot's eating habits are played for laughs throughout, as he consumes chocolate bananas and Doc's stash at different points, and repeatedly shouts «Moto Panacaku» in a Japanese diner.

Tales of gross negligence and fights are shown, and sometimes played for laughs, but we don't get a good enough grasp on the story behind the movie.

Back in Hollywood thereafter — the movie elides the two years he spent in Mexico with three other screenwriters and their families — he's obliged to support his family by writing screenplays under pseudonyms for low - rent producers such as the King brothers (played for laughs by John Goodman and Stephen Root).

There are the usual action sequences, of course, but even those are played for laughs, such as a fight that involves a hot tub and a shootout that the heroes would rather avoid than join.

Although all of these potentially life - threatening situations are played for laughs, they may still scare very young viewers.

Coogan is especially game with his love - life and failure to crack the US market played for laughs.

A sequence dealing with the filming of his «red western», East Wind, is played for laughs when no - one agrees with Godard's filming methods and he's forced to go along with the vapid majority vote.

She starts crying, and we realize that, though we can't exactly take this seriously, the scene isn't really being played for laughs, either.

Electrocutions, explosions and a finger caught in a door are played for laughs along side the more serious murders of two characters.