Sentences with phrase «really great comedies»

4:15 am (26th)-- TCM — A Day at the Races The Marx Brothers take over the racetrack in what is probably the last of their really great comedies.

The hard thing for me is that I look either my age or younger and I think right now the roles are for late twenties, early thirties for these really great comedies.»

The Campaign works in some ways but fails in others keeping it from being a really great comedy.

Not exact matches

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

We did however have a great Valentine's day dinner at home on Friday and we went to a comedy show on Saturday which was really fun.

You may have seen it featured in the hit comedy «The Hangover» starring Zach Galifianakis: the BabyBjorn Baby Carrier is a really great carrier for dads of all sizes.

It doesn't really matter that Anna Faris is such a great and hilarious actress when she has to deliver unfunny lines in an unfunny comedy that usually goes for the most pedestrian jokes that you can think of and is entirely formulaic and predictable from beginning to end.

Good but not great comedy about an inoffensively self centered man who doesn't really seem to mind much the gradual downward spiral his life becomes once he strays from his stable family life.

If you like sports this one will really hit the spot its a great mix of comedy and action.

If this would have been a slightly longer feature, with a bit more depth to its sheer ridiculous plot, then Blood Car would really have been a great horror comedy.

At a time when half - hour TV comedy is reaching a new level of self - referential daring — you can't fully appreciate the intricate, in - joke pleasures of great shows like NBC's Seinfeld and HBO's The Larry Sanders Show unless you've also watched a lot of really bad TV — The Simpsons continues to emphasize that there's a big world out there that television barely touches upon.

This, now old, comedy was a small release in the UK I believe and didn't really do that much (a typical Fraser release) and you can see why sort of, its not a terrible comedy but its not that great either, its steady stuff.

Payne has often been likened to the great Preston Sturges, and a generous reading of this movie's unwieldy structure might position it in the spirit of Sturges» classic 1941 comedy «Sullivan's Travels,» with its nutty hairpin turns, earnest doofus hero and sincere if sanctimonious moralizing about What Humanity Really Needs.

It's not that HTTM is a terrible movie — there are moments of great comedy and interesting bits, for sure — but that it really took the lazy way out and decided that gross - out gags, extreme profanity and the mere concept of the plot was enough to carry it on through to the end credits.

To those not interested in the greater ideas presented in the film, Barton Fink — despite its artsy and meaningful storytelling — should really appeal to anyone with a taste for black comedy (a subgenre the Coens rarely blunder.)

You have this great combination of comedy and relief versus these really intense heartbreaking tear shed moments, how did you create that mood on set?

There are really so many great gags and sequences in this that any fan of wacky comedies such as Airplane, Spaceballs, and Monty Python should get some real enjoyment out of this one.

It is, of course, dark comedy, but it's comedy nonetheless, and it's about as far on the other side of the spectrum from No Country as they could get while still maintaining everything that is uniquely Coen: twists, unexpected carnage, and a cast that elevates a really good movie into being a really great movie.

I think it's interesting that critics regard Bringing Up Baby as a great comedy, but I really can't stand it.

Also it has a really great streak of black comedy, which makes the bad behavior so much more fun to watch.»

Amy Poehler playing Arrietty's mother, Homily and Carol Burnett playing the Great Aunt Hara really nail the comedy in the film and really bring the funny.

For a movie using a really great high - concept idea, it is mind - boggling that the screen writers and director didn't have guts to make a really daring and interesting comedy, while instead giving the film so many standard and unsatisfying sub-plots to drag the film down.

Normally for a comedy, I would say that it doesn't really push the standards of Blu - ray but this film does and it looks great.

After such a failure with A Good Day to Die Hard it's really great to see Bruce Willis return to form with this action / comedy sequel...

Packed with nudity, and violence, the film's greatest asset lies in its ability to pepper its mystery with physical comedy, great one - liners and a few really memorable moments.

You may enjoy seeing some of your favorite comedians portray some of your older favorite comedians in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, but David Wain, Jonathan Stern and Peter Principato really made the film to shine a light on Doug Kenney, the late great comedy writer who co-founded the National Lampoon magazine, and co-wrote the screenplays to Animal House and Caddyshack, then abruptly fell off a Hawaiian cliff and died at age 33.

Juralumin got one of the hands down best scenes in the book, Yotsuba has some great physical comedy with an exercise ball, and Azuma nails some really nice things over the course of the book.