Sentences with phrase «playing hammy»

There's also a great scene in «Lemon» featuring Megan Mullally, who plays a hammy fashion photographer.

I caught up with Geoffrey Rush, one of my favorite actors, promoting his new film, The Eye of the Storm, where he plays a hammy Australian performer who decamped years before to London's West End to escape his harridan mother, played by Charlotte Rampling.

Not exact matches

Team Sternberg got a great defensive effort from Captain Sam «the wall at 3b» Sternberg and some timely hitting from Andrew «the guy is playing on a partially torn hammy» Mott who also pitched a stellar game for these guys.

Since pulled hammies are known to linger for weeks, Philly opted not to play him as a big favorite over Brock Osweiler and the Broncos.

The Bills opted to play McCoy last Sunday after he injured his hammy during practice earlier in the week.

Fulfilling his troth, Robin is convinced by the elder Loxley, Sir Walter (Max von Sydow, hammy), to take the dead prodigal's place as lord of the manor and husband of the distinctly displeased Marion in order to prevent the baronial lands from being seized by the grasping tax collectors of the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac, mincingly monotonous), whose chief henchman, Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong, bald), is playing a double game as both John's right arm and a stalking horse for a French invasion of England.

He's brilliantly hammy; he's impossible; he's the star of the show playing the star of the show.

It might have been nice to spend more time with Jyn and her make - do crew — especially the mysterious Saw Gerrera, played by a hammy Forest Whitaker channeling both

While Willis continues to phone in his performance with the same on - screen persona he's been giving us for the last decade or two, the other main actors get their chances to shine, especially an always fun Helen Mirren (Monsters University, Hitchcock) and John Malkovich, who know well enough to play to the audience that they know that the movie they're in is meant to be nothing but a hammy lark.

Patches of it are so ludicrously hammy it plays like one of those unbearably corny fake films teased at the beginning of Tropic Thunder.

There's a vague and hammy attempt to create an antagonist, in the shape of a cartoonish colonel played by Yul Vazquez, but it's mostly plain sailing despite the tragedy at the film's core.

Jackson hams it up incredibly and there must have been a bet between him and Don Johnson as to who would play the biggest cliche because both are hammier than a bacon sarnie.

Also disappointing is the lack of a legitimate threat, with Blue more bothersome than evil, performed aggressively by a miscast Issac, who chooses to play the ghoul with broad, hammy indication instead of finding an effective sting of ruthless intimidation.

It is played painfully over the top, from the hammy performances to the clunky dialogue and stock thriller soundtrack, but the action isn't over the top or the tone fun enough to make this work.

The dynamics between the varied characters are wonderful, from the father possum teaching his daughter how to play dead to the irrepressibly energetic squirrel Hammy (voiced almost unrecognisably by Steve Carell of The 40 Year Old Virgin fame).

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

Garry Shandling barely registers as displaced leader Verne the turtle, but support comes from Steve Carell (hilariously zippy as squirrel Hammy), Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as porcupines, Wanda Sykes as a skunk, and William Shatner as a possum who's an expert at playing dead (get it?).

Playing Petit's mentor, Sir Ben Kingsley shows up with an accent so hammy and wandering I still have no idea where his character originated from.

Rock plays a shade of himself; a quasi-washed-up comedic actor famed as the title role in the critically flattened Hammy the Bear buddy cop films.

I've never played either series (except some of Hyrule Warriors), but I do know that Dynasty Warriors has some seriously campy and hammy characters; and even quite a few that add «flamboyant» to that mix.