Sentences with phrase «pratfalling all»

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.

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.

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.

Narratively, Game Night is a fairly loose spoof, with screenwriter Mark Perez (Accepted, The Country Bears) adhering closer to the rules of the dubious, aforementioned civilians - in - trouble subgenre, meaning that we get lots of scenes of Bateman, McAdams, and company pratfalling in and out of sticky situations.

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.

Lost in Paris returns slapstick and sight gags, now the fodder or annual Shrek imitators, back to the world of art, with the pratfalling misadventures of two caricatured romantics playing out like a musical.

Having demonstrated his comedic talents to an worldwide audience, Benigni seemed an inspired casting choice for the pratfalling offspring of Inspector Clouseau in Blake Edwards» 1992 Son of the Pink Panther.

The safety key clipped to my pants stops the belt before I pratfall into the wood panelling.

I recently learned about The Pratfall Effect.

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

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Pretense meets pratfall, again and again.

Humor can also be wordplay and lightning fast wit, or pratfalls and spittakes, or simply an unexpected situation.

It is essentially comical and has all the marks of a pratfall.

He has a pratfall, he jumps up again.

... 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....

He hoists a huge load of bats over his shoulder, walks toward the plate and takes a pratfall.

The day that Max Patkin stops kissing base runners or crawling through catchers» legs or covering himself with dirt or getting the heave - hohoho from umpires, chances are that's the day he takes the Big Pratfall.

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

When I'm not at Parnassus, I'm... Reading poetry, writing, raising kids, trying out pratfalls to make the kids laugh.

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.

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.

Themes from the 2,185 video clips — collected from various online sources for the study — included births and babies, weddings and proposals, death and suffering, spiders and snakes, physical pratfalls and risky stunts, sexual acts, natural disasters, wondrous nature and awkward handshakes.

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.

It comes with perils and pratfalls and whatever else.

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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.

Gratuitous sex, pratfalls, and goofy violence come with the territory in this over-the-top guys» comedy.

The point, though, was that the kids and the critters — and occasionally an adult doing a pratfall — were all that was required.

As in the first «Sherlock Holmes» movie, there are plenty of pratfalls and bare - knuckle brawls but no sleuthing for us to share.

Director Bennett Miller has produced a warm and generally agreeable character study about the pratfalls of athletic institutions and the willingness to think outside the box.

Here are all the things you will discover in Show Dogs: embarrassingly bad CGI; pratfalls; a dog biting FBI butt; dog farts; testicle humor (multiple instances); a giant movie - long promo for a major hotel on the Vegas Strip that I won't name because they didn't pay me to promote them; denigration of cat ladies; horrible clichés and stereotypes.

The pitiful misadventures presented here spotlight pratfalls more than biting wit, which is a dodgy endeavor considering that the median age of the double bill is 77.

But they put romance on the back burner while focusing on race and ethnicity as Leonardo bonds with his fellow Mexicans on a pool - building job, even as they initially mock his smooth «lady hands» and allow him to pratfall through his first day.

Deadpool assembles a team of mutants (except, hilariously, a guy named Peter, who has no obvious superpower) that he dubs X-Force for a daring, pratfall - filled and mostly ill - fated rescue before facing off against a rather more ordinary but still plenty nasty villain, the headmaster of Broadstone House, a reformatory for mutant children, who has the mien of a bureaucrat and the soul of a sadist.

Not every villain can take a pratfall and still be menacing, but Oldman finds the line and deftly slides back and forth.

The comedy, however, is also heavy on slapstick, pratfalls and crazy disguises.

McCarthy plays it broad, there's some vague female empowerment subplot counterbalancing her butterfly - like transformation, and there will be some pratfalls.

In his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter, Silberling also, to a certain extent, trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls: to the point where his heartfelt drama comes perilously close to tasteless comedy.

Chevy Chase returns as dimwitted dad Clark W. Griswold in a pratfall - down funny romp bouncing from the casino to a Hoover Dam tour to Vegas shows and more.

VIOLENCE / GORE 2 - Pratfalls, pummeling, sports - related injuries.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

The story takes a couple of sharp turns, ultimately revealing that it isn't a romantic comedy after all, but a shambling drama with a few mildly amusing pratfalls.

Comedy today is less about punch lines and pratfalls and more about eliciting that laugh - gasp hybrid.

The script recycles Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, with six guests invited by a mysterious host to spend the night in a creepy mansion, but instead of parodying the material Lynn simply surrounds it with extraneous pratfalls and wisecracks.

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.

With the exception of a second - act revelation that pushes the story in an interesting direction, «Table 19» is a largely ineffective Sundance wannabe that's unable to balance its pratfalls and dick jokes with the more serious moments.

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.

Potentially sweet family dynamics are buried under a relentless parade of pratfalls and harmful household disasters (see also Cheaper by the Dozen).