Sentences with phrase «relies on sitcom»

«About Ray,» on the other hand, is a mainstream family affair that too often relies on sitcom - ish punchlines instead of meaningful dialogue, while giving short shrift to the very character that should rightfully be the reason for its existence.

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More a series of anecdotes than an insightful dramedy and relies too much on absurd coincidences and needless sitcom - style lying.

Tired and uninspired, the movie has no clue how to draw out its sitcom setup and relies entirely on weak pratfalls and schmaltz that's so sappy it provides the bulk of the laughs.

But Boynton BeachClub is more a series of anecdotes than an insightful dramedy and relies too much on absurd coincidences and needless sitcom - style lying.

It's clear, then, that the script's sitcom - level approach to the subject matter fares much better than one might've anticipated, although there's no denying that, at a ludicrously overlong running time of 110 minutes, How to Be Single does peter out to an increasingly palpable degree as it progresses - with, especially, the movie's final third relying far too heavily on hackneyed sequences that are either egregiously padded - out or completely needless (eg a character frantically races to the hospital).

The Monthy Python-esque plots of each episode can seem familiar to those found in mainstream television sitcoms, but instead of trying to make the audience laugh Mellors unpicks the familiar comedic methods these programmes rely on.