Sentences with phrase «pratfalls in»

Jane's dad Henry's pratfalls in The Lady Eve are the perfect correlative for his psychological upheaval, and Blake Edwards and Dudley Moore did something delightful in the first few scenes of 10: They turned a man's 40th birthday into a harbinger of his ultimate defeat at the hands of time and gravity.

Instead, The Cobbler is comfortable in delivering caricatures, platitudes, and pratfalls in place of jokes.

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 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....

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.

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat») is of the well - executed physical variety.

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan») is of the well - executed physical variety.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

As Bruce Granit, Karl is far less gracefully antic in taking a pratfall than Kline, but he puts those aforementioned biceps to very comic good use.

Naturally it will all resolve itself in a flurry of tears, hugs and revelations — perhaps an attempt, as disingenuous as it is unsuccessful, to reinstate the sweet, reconciliatory spirit of Beatrix Potter after an hour - and - a-half's worth of «Looney Tunes» - style pratfalls and incongruous pop songs.

Secondly, all the good horror movie cliché - related jokes have been covered in the first two films, so all that's left is pratfalls and gross - out gags pertaining to bodily functions.

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.

His ability to use slapstick while keeping a straight face is impressive, engaging in pratfalls without them coming across as desperate attempts to create laughs when none can be found.

If you A) weren't thrilled by the Three Stooges trailer's pratfall overload and B) would like to see Emily Blunt and Jason Segel being romantically funny together in something that isn't Gulliver's Travels, then we think we have the answer.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want»); the periodic sound of amplified heartbeats and perhaps thunder; a series of sudden and seemingly unmotivated pratfalls; Plenty addressing occasional asides to the camera and viewer; and a plot that's doggedly anticliche, flouting every expectation.

Deanna's remarks are funnier than her pratfalls this time around, and she faces actual human emotions that are unexpected in this sort of summer comedy.

Even baseball fans will be sorely disappointed in how the game is depicted, with almost no adherence to any known rules (the Benchwarmers only field three players), while the games themselves have no real rooting interest, concocted merely to show more pratfalls, players getting injured, and bats flying out of the park into vehicles or people.

Hold on to your granny pants and brace yourselves: a third Bridget Jones movie is in development, and it looks as though Renee Zellweger will return to the role of the desperate 30 - something as she continues to pratfall her way through life.

It's amazing how the Duplass brothers think that pratfalls are appropriate in a comedy as «realistic» and occasionally dark as Table 19, but they're seemingly as essential element to the film's laughs.

There aren't any pratfalls or cheap gags pushed in your face.

The light - hearted tone does not fail altogether, but the sight gags and pratfalls just seem like they belong in a different film.

Even Hamburg's non-scatological humor is uninspired, faux - Farrelly attempts at would - be outrageousness: broad sight (pun intended) gags with Polly's blind ferret; Reuben's ex-child star friend's (Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose pratfall of an entrance ominously foretells of the depths to which he's required to sink) desperate «comeback» bid in a community theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

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.»

In between, she landed a small comedic part in Mike Nichols» Primary Colors (1998), performing a pratfall that caught the attention of Aaron Sorkin, who promptly reached out to her to audition for a part in his upcoming White House - set NBC drama series The West WinIn between, she landed a small comedic part in Mike Nichols» Primary Colors (1998), performing a pratfall that caught the attention of Aaron Sorkin, who promptly reached out to her to audition for a part in his upcoming White House - set NBC drama series The West Winin Mike Nichols» Primary Colors (1998), performing a pratfall that caught the attention of Aaron Sorkin, who promptly reached out to her to audition for a part in his upcoming White House - set NBC drama series The West Winin his upcoming White House - set NBC drama series The West Wing.

But based on how they proceed to behave, it seems that all they've been missing out on is the sort if formulaic slapstick and sophomoric behavior one might find in a typical teensploit, such as pratfalls, preening, potty humor, skinny dipping, ogling women, boozing it up, and participating in gay panic homophobia.

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.

There's an inner 9 - year - old in us all, dying to get out, to laugh at pratfalls, slaps, eye - pokes and fart jokes.

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.

But while Saulnier has scored grim chuckles from the hapless maneuvers of amateur law - breakers, Blair — who also wrote the screenplay — cranks the dumbfuck - pratfall levels to wacky extremes: Lynskey, recognizably human in a role that puts her expert comedic timing to good use, is quickly surrounded by a rogues» gallery of cartoons, including Elijah Wood, channeling Dwight Schrute as an oddball Christian neighbor turned sidekick.

3/3 I laugh at fart jokes or pratfalls but Albert Brooks or Woody Allen can make me smile and still belong in the genre.

There are no pratfalls or nudges in the ribs as the movie presents in - jokes.

Falling into same the pratfalls of Ayer's previous effort, Fury, Suicide Squad is another case where story elements are continuously piled on in the hopes that a coherent narrative arc will emerge.

No doubt some of this was improvised, but the script, by Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, is also efficient and light, revelling in its broad comedy, complete with bathroom humor and pratfalls.

Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes «to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man.»

That practice turns a financial limp into a disastrous pratfall that will cost you thousands of dollars in unnecessary interest payment.

«Review: Artists fuse funny - haha with funny - odd and existential angst in ACAC's «Pratfall Tramps,»» ArtsATL.com, March 26

The enormous 1999 painting Earthquake in Chile appears next to Pratfall, from 1974.

Hanging opposite the elevators on the new Whitney's fifth floor, as a kind of preamble to «Frank Stella: A Retrospective,» are Pratfall (1974), a precise arrangement of 12 concentric squares in contrapuntal grays that sucks the viewer into its black core; six untitled photographs, from the late 1980s, of curling smoke that looks like jellyfish, or ink dispersing in water; and Earthquake in Chile (1999), a 40 - foot - long, turgid mess of a painting.

Just to the left of Das Erdbeben in Chili is Pratfall, a ten - foot - square acrylic painting that Stella created in 1974.

Grounded in the joys and pratfalls of the everyday, Wood and Harrison's blend of high and low, philosophical and funny, captures both a sense of wonder and the thrill of genuine experimentation.