Sentences with phrase «ripe for comedy»

It's the same core game at heart, but the neon - soaked riff on Miami in the 80s is ripe for both comedy and intense action, while the characters and storytelling are better.

And especially how the saints seemed ripe for comedy.

Though its premise is certainly ripe for comedy, the film is so aimless and poorly executed that it never really finds its voice, let alone one that's even remotely funny.

The subject matter was obviously ripe for comedy and is still to this day one of my favorite comedy films of the 90s.

Not exact matches

It was ripe for editing and the internet obliged, and we were all treated to another dose of comedy gold.

There is no doubt that the American political system is ripe for skewering comedy, and there is much in the outrageously over-the-top jokes in The Campaign that are probably only a hair from the truth.

The setup is ripe for a black comedy but the movie never fully embraces the darkness and the level of humor is on par with the limp skits for which Wiig is responsible on Saturday Night Live.

The odds: Given festival juries» general resistance to comedy (Cannes and the Oscars are similar in more respects than one might think) and a director few perceive as particularly ripe for the honor, «The Source» looks, on paper, like a long shot for the Palme.

Spoof movies have made fun of action movies, adventure movies, horror films, and science - fiction movies, so romantic comedies were certainly ripe for lampooning.

The material is ripe for political - edged comedy, which the script touches on in between the relentless double entendre.

It's an event so ripe for entertainment value that the prospect of director Todd Phillips» comedy in which three groomsmen take their friend to Las Vegas for a bachelor party didn't bode well.

Vampires are one thing (and though the «Twilight» comparisons are inevitable, they're completely unwarranted), but the idea of doing a romantic comedy where a zombie falls in love with a human is ripe for exactly the kind of dark humor that «Warm Bodies» will hopefully deliver in spades.

If vaudeville was a ripe feeding ground for comedy teams in the early sound days, the silent film comedians also spawned generations of teams that were not reliant on dialogue.

East is East is a very funny film that expertly mixes an interesting context ripe for satire with both clever and daft comedy.

This set - up is ripe for both black comedy and soul - searching drama, and yet writer Steven Knight throws in irrelevant sideroads including a mandated therapist (the wonderful Emma Thompson), a bitter rival (a jagged Matthew Rhys), a couple of randomly violent loan sharks and a precocious little girl.

Our obsession with social media is ripe for mocking and even merciless comedy, but Spicer and Smith reach for only the lowest hanging fruit, tossing out straightforward gags about superlative - slinging millennials with their hashtags, selfie - taking, and avocado toast.

And there's no more ripe subject for comedy than vanity.

With its mix of comedy and horror, it's a work ripe for the big screen, and writer / director Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down,, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud) take promises to be a rollicking adaptation.

Romantic comedies are rarely ripe with special features, but that didn't effect my desire for more from the single - disc release of «Definitely, Maybe.»

But while the premise seems ripe for a movie in the vein of Click, a Sandler comedy with a surprising amount of tear - jerking heart, The Cobbler ends up going nowhere.