Sentences with word «pratfall»

Carrey has never been better, filing down the rough edges of his manic tendencies into a performance that times the comedy of pratfalls and slow burns with faultless precision.

They all get together for a long weekend where not much happens, aside from pratfalls in the woods, plenty of public urination, and an eventual moment of confession which is nothing short of cringeworthy.

Hotspur's manly vigor takes a turn for the slapstick, as he takes pratfalls while condescending to his wife and leaps out of his bathtub enraged when he reads bad news in a letter, just in time to moon his military allies.

Research for Pratfall Tramps was supported by: Independent Curators International The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Mixing touchy - feely, sub-Sundance quirk, a studio comedy's penchant for pratfalls and dick jokes, and unabashed John Hughes nostalgia, the film crowds its leading lady with a busy ensemble and too much plot.

Those segments are then tied together by a story about a precocious young girl who, by the way, has an animal sidekick and that is filled with pratfalls, innocently mischievous humor, and a couple of jokes about how «icky» kissing is.

The screenplay by directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein takes the next generation of Griswolds on a tour of the United States, making stops along the way for a series of gags that range from pratfalls mixed with a variety of icky fluids to jokes simply about disgusting things to an attempted suicide and a couple of attempted murders.

Purportedly «based upon» Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey's novel Cheaper by the Dozen (and characters conceived by Craig Titley), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 reunites the Baker clan for more pratfalling hijinks, wanton destruction, and syrupy lessons.

It relies heavily on pratfalls and physical comedy, earning only the occasional light chuckle from either.

Preston Sturges was scared, and it wasn't just about pratfalls.

I was bullish on the Wolfpack despite the obvious potential pratfalls:

While it might seem like pratfalls involving toy cars are the stuff of cartoon legend, I can assure you that these accidents do happen, so make sure your toddler keeps cars stored away from walking areas.

He's the new Steve Martin in a way, a comic actor who likes to underplay the jokes, guarding a reserve of intelligence that seems acutely present even when he's doing pure physical pratfalls.

Based on this trailer, this is definitely something different from Scorsese (we're not sure we ever expected to see a shot of a dog reacting to a slapstick pratfall from the director of Mean Streets), though he's never been the sort of director you could pin down to one genre.

SPY (Paul Feig, USA, 2015; 120 minutes) Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) parlays Melissa McCarthy's sly likeability and pratfalling genius into a dumb, feel - good spoof of the secret agent genre.

Acker follows suit a few scenes later, with fewer pratfalls, but Denisof is engaged in a film - long campaign to earn laughs via tweaked line readings and vain poses.

Beverly Hills Ninja is one of the most juvenile PG - 13 films you're ever likely to see, with only one joke going for it to see how many pratfalls the portly actor can endure without killing himself or others.

James Cameron could happily present a gang of wanna - be nuclear bombers as pratfalling jokers, bungling their way through a suicide mission like Allah's own Keystone Kops.

Before Pratfall there was Sharpesville.

Driven by one irrational fear, business leaders ignore host of financial pratfalls by Campbell / Clark.

Even though the bloom may be slipping in the aged romantic comedy star, he can still do dumb stunts and pratfalls while keeping the love - light glowing.

... With apologies to President Clinton, the biggest pratfall in Florida last week belonged to Heat forward Jamal Mashburn, who missed all 10 of his shots in an 82 - 76 loss to Charlotte....

For all his bumbling, fumbling, stumbling, bobbling, unforced errors and outright pratfalls, Mr. de Blasio managed this spring to push through what may be his most significant accomplishment in office: rezoning New York City.

support team and project managers are always just a call away, and they will too help you along avoiding all the possible pratfalls.

Though the promise is an all - ages comedy, this is better suited to kids and those who enjoy endless pratfalls.

As entertaining as McCarthy is - and she will pratfall through flaming hoops to make you laugh - she plays the sympathy card as determinedly as any comedian since perhaps Jackie Gleason.

Garlin and Zahn execute multiple pratfalls with aplomb, but the familiarly inorganic plot machinations blunt the film's attempts at scoring the big laughs.

Yes, this movie is just as silly as it looks, with Jim Carrey pratfalling all over the screen alongside a bunch of adorable (sometimes animated) critters.

Yet, Rogen and Goldberg avoid all the major pratfalls of first - time comedy filmmakers, combining the loose, Apatow - inspired interactions with impressive visual set pieces that create a sense of scope and escalation.

He does not pratfall.

Despite all my aforementioned praising of this show, it exhibits the same pratfalls that many TV shows have with displaying women as «objects of male desire» as Laura Mulvey described in her famous essay «Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.»

Blair miscalculates, cranking the dumbfuck - pratfall levels to wacky extremes.

«In work after work you see the same calculation peeking its tongue - wagging little head out of the art [which is] lewd and long on visual pratfalls.»

Technically Detective Pikachu doesn't speak either but the game's central human character, Tim, is somehow able to understand him, discovering him to be a loveable grump with a penchant for solving mysteries and comedy pratfalls.

Forthcoming in 2015 include Pratfall Tramps, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and Hammer Projects: Mary Reid Kelley, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

The subtext might have to do with the barriers of class, culture and generation, which the Dude pratfalls over as he tries to navigate beyond the bubble of pot smoke enclosing him.

Its main objective remains to elicit laughs, and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising does so with a delirious sense of momentum and an admirable variety of humor — from awkward conversations and poor word choices to broad pratfalls and gross - out sight gags.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty included in the group show Pratfall Tramps at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, through April 11

Only Ubisoft's Zombie U, built from the ground up for the Wii U, avoids such pratfalls.

«Laugh it up, girls — this is your future,» says Nancy to a gaggle of snickering teens following one of several pratfalls she endures over the film's efficient 87 - minute running time.

Pretense meets pratfall, again and again.

That's a Jar Jar Binks pratfall in the teaser trailer.

With name riders pratfalling left and right, White's deliberately conservative first run, which earned him a 46.8, held up for the gold.

The answer is simple: The mayor came to office marinated in hubris, and this has informed virtually all of his (many) political and policy pratfalls.

Alain E. Kaloyeros resigned as president of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute on Tuesday, marking not only the fall of one of the state's most powerful and best - paid employees, but also a very public pratfall for a university system that has been a ready lever of power for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

It's chalkboards and elbow patches and unkempt beards and Latin animal names; it's wacky contraptions and zany pratfalls and that unnecessarily ubiquitous quasi-German accent.

Living in the wild, our survival required us to pay attention and be present — noticing food, escaping predators, and avoiding the always embarrassing / entertaining pratfall.

They're certainly no Aykroyd and Belushi, or even Myers and Carvey, but Farley and Spade manage to wring humor from a series of juvenile setups and predictable pratfalls.

The comedy is as you have come to expect from Lester with these films, both silly pratfalls wise and the various subtle little dubbed gags.