Sentences with phrase «running gag»

This final film even pays off a silly running gag about a minor character's propensity for blowing himself up that's unique to the movies.

If those names don't mean anything to you, many of the best jokes and running gags in the film will be unfortunately lost to you.

But in a film where one of the funniest running gags involves grammar, would you expect anything less?

Most comedies will have one or two running gags throughout.

He gets much more expressive mileage out of an old TV technique — using running gags to develop theme and character.

The four ladies are great together, each bringing their own, smart style of comedy, which fits nicely amidst all the action and laugh - out - loud running gags.

, get a laugh every time, while a random running gag involving a sandwich shop falls flat.

A combination of the crap and X for brains running gags.

The door - stopping 1996 book inspires several running gags: It's more than a thousand pages long, so it must be brilliant.

The series recalls a career comedian's tendency toward running gags.

There are countless sight gags, innumerable puns and lots of running gags in the background, including the arrest of a perpetrator who looks exactly like Mr. Potato Head.

What does nt work quite as well is the Arnie humour, not least a tiresome running gag where he tries to blend in by smiling.

Georgia's kicker only stepped into the overtime spotlight because Alabama kickers remained the best running gag in college football.

There are a couple of great running gags, along with a few timely appearances by a giant mallard duck -LRB-?).

Yet it's disappointing that the best moments in The World's End are continuations of running gags from the two previous films.

DreamWorks Animation's «Penguins of Madagascar» movie opened in November 2014, but people are still referencing one of the film's best running gags on social media: the celebrity name puns from Dave the Octopus (voiced by John Malkovich).

The hilarious running gag involving slugs is reminiscent of that provided by Scrat from the Ice Age movies, but only funnier.

If that sounds silly, that's because it is, and Simmons has a couple of amusing running gags to enjoy here — but he's also, you know, truly evil.

But a few running gags pop up occasionally to amuse long - time fans.

There's the most marvelous running gag in the film where after Wormold tries to recruit his native shop assistant, said assistant doesn't understand Wormold, and thinks he's is asking for a «lady for the evening.»

It helps that there are greats comedians in supporting roles here and there are few memorable running gags outside of the main storyline.

This provides some great running gags like Mitch's nicknames for Matt, CJ flirting with Ronnie and Ellerbee's inadequacies as a cop.

Paddington manages a number of consistently funny running gags that keep the movie lighthearted even in the face of an incredibly creepy subplot in which a Cruella De Vil figure (played by Nicole Kidman) wants to kill and stuff Paddington.

There is a particularly inspired running gag involving something so simple: anytime someone slams open the front door, coming out of the blustery cold and into Minnie's Haberdashery, they are forced to nail it shut with boards of wood and be yelled at by those already inside and keeping warm by the fire.

Which for me only helped to underscore the movie's endless running gag about how bad Shrek smells.

These include Sharon Horgan («Catastrophe»), lending the proceedings a sharp - witted boost as Ryan's latest game - night squeeze, and Morris («New Girl») and Bunbury («Pitch»), who spend most of the movie shackled to a joyless running gag involving a premarital indiscretion.

What is truly delightful about the film is its loopy, gently slapstick sense of humor, its use of continuous running gags that pay off cumulatively (no small feat), and the dreamy sense that Schilling's somnambulism is pierced through only by the insane incomprehensible behavior of others.

A clever running gag — establishing shots, street scenes and traffic scenes and cul de sacs are illustrated in detailed models which dissolve into the photo - real scenes the action takes place in.

For example, there is a funny bit where Kevin James» character, Eric, is a little too attached to his mom (the super adorable Georgia Engel from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), but they chose to spend more time on a stupid running gag: Eric has the ability to «burp - snart» (burping, sneezing, and farting at the same time).

He's also undermined by a neat running gag about nobody knowing who he is: yet everybody knows about his former friend Oogway, which really gets up his sizeable nostrils.

(The men, comparably monochrome and sooty, are distinguished by their tattoos; in a terrific running gag, Soderbergh places his camera judiciously in order to keep revealing new ones throughout the film.)

What differentiates Rudolph's compulsive use of such howlers — which comprise much of the «screwball» part of «screwball noir» — from Altman's otherwise similar running gags is that they conjure up classic Hollywood archetypes.

Notably there's Peter Serafinowicz on fine form as an overly amorous Italian chauffeur named Aldo, whose attention to Susan helps to ensure running gags about her appearance and ageing singledom never feel genuinely mean - spirited.

Plenty of mileage is derived from Dujardin's dismissal of everything Arab, Michel Hazanavicius also throws in some supremely silly running gags, while keeping the plot moving at a clip and establishing a rapport between the hapless hero and his insouciant

Banter between George Clooney and Brad Pitt is littered with laughs, including a hysterical running gag about Oprah Winfrey.

There are successful running gags, too, such as the voice Ethan puts on when nervous, or Marianne's (Jae Suh Park) woeful off - off - Broadway theatrical offerings (a gender - swapping Streetcar, anyone?).

Running gags abound (my personal favourite sees Dewey barbarically ripping sinks out of the wall whenever he's frustrated), but for the most part it's one - liners and witty ripostes, packed dense and dispensed like bubbles from a bubble machine: each one poised to impress but finally indistinctive, hollow, and weightless.

Too, there's a great running gag whereby the teens do it in grossly inappropriate public venues under the pretense that «funerals» and «garbage» make them horny.

The only running gag that somewhat works is the version of Tom Cruise's character from War of the Worlds being a bad father, but it's also probably the only joke that is actually based on observation of the source material.

Jokes and long - running gags arrive D.O.A. Michelle's antagonist, ex-boyfriend / business partner Rennault (played broadly by Peter Dinklage), isn't much of an adversary.

An enjoyable running gag shows how the only way to soothe this savage beast is by playing smooth jazz - to Zach's utter disgust - which is cranked up to an ear - splitting level when things start to get really ugly.

When our quartet of cuddly endangered animals saunters off into the sunset, it feels disturbingly melancholy — something director Chris Wedge tries to assuage with a tedious epilogue that beats a long - dead running gag into the loam of an increasingly belaboured film.

Although there are moments when Deo might have had a lighter touch, writer - assistant director Verma provides a steady and amusing flow of complications with Nitin's attack of Delhi Belly — food poisoning — proving an earthy running gag.

In The Love Guru, catchphrases and running gags wear out their welcome the first time around.

The same goes for the film's other groan / migraine - inducing running gags: The use of «Mariska Hargitay» as a mystic greeting, shortness jokes directed at long - suffering comic foil Verne Troyer, convoluted pseudo-profound wordplay, and masturbation jokes involving Tugginmypudha.

Better Watch Out knows the best Christmas horror films call for dark humour — bright - red blood on snow, someone tied to a chair with Christmas lights, a Home Alone running gag that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about the sweet, innocent Kevin McCallister.

When he isn't beating up Daisy — the film's least appealing running gag — John is repeating his suspicions that one or more of the others is plotting her rescue.