Sentences with phrase «running gags like»

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

Not exact matches

Though I do like this as a running gag, like the new «Did you know the Warriors blew a 3 - 1 lead in the NBA Finals:» Please hold an «IS NEBRASKA GOOD?»

Tiger Woods, like Mamie Eisenhower in that long - running, depraved yet wickedly funny National Lampoon gag back in the day, is not dead yet.

But, like all comedies, everything turns out okay — a running gag about the hapless Jim whose sexual misadventures form the movie's backbone is that all of his disastrous missteps turn out right in the end.

But while the sequel benefits from Reynolds» superhuman charisma as the charmingly annoying, katana - wielding protagonist, the film nevertheless feels too much like more of the same: more of the same gross - out gags, more of the same irreverent jokes, more bits where Deadpool has to regrow severed limbs to the disgust of everyone around him, more running commentary on the movie he's in....

The funniest bits are asides (like flashback montages) or running gags, which simply jab at unrelated things.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

It feels like a slapdash collection of scenes rather than a balloon sent smoothly aloft, with jokes often falling as flat as Cena's buzz cut (a running gag centers on his tough - guy character's propensity for crying, a go - to bit that ages fast).

The special features included are good but run very short and seems like one long gag.

, by contrast, are clearly products of a post-musical era, in which the genre itself is treated like a joke, where musical numbers are less displays of technical virtuosity than extended gags, sometimes at the expense of the performers themselves (in Hairspray, John Travolta's pseudo-drag performance becomes a running punchline; Mamma Mia!

It reminds me of routine wartime musicals — not special efforts like The Gang's All Here or Cabin in the Sky or Girl Crazy or The Sky's the Limit, but those wholly forgettable Betty Grable and Alice Faye vehicles, top - heavy with running gags, dopey character actors, corny subplots, and sentimental framing devices.

Of course, they can't have one nonstop fart to fill the running length with, although they do give it a valiant effort, so they throw in a virtual kitchen sink of random «funny» characters and gags, none of which feel like they belong in this movie.

(Best running gag: Nicole being aggressively wooed by a little boy she babysits whose voice has dropped early, making him sound like he's about 40.)

Beetle Juice cannily avoids answering these questions with a running gag involving the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, a manual that reportedly «reads like stereo instructions.»

References to «Wrecking Ball» begin as a running gag, but like all irksomely catchy hits, it won't go away, and culminates in a duet with Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

Again, it's a decent gag like some others, but the thread that runs between them is not very strong or supportive.

The screenwriting teams of Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses (The Bob Newhart Show) and Jerry Juhl & Jack Rose deliver punchline after ticklish punchline and a full complement of masterful running gags (like the absurd notion that Kermit and Fozzie are twins).

There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the sight gag with the sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.

Children are shot in the back, mothers are run down like animals, a heroic geek is tortured mercilessly, and the final reward of at least a couple of the baddies would make Dario Argento blush (indeed, a knife - through - the - chin gag from Opera is ripped off with gory gusto).

THE BLU - RAY DISC - ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves docks on Blu - ray in another extended cut that bloats the already - distended running time of the theatrical version by nine minutes with, for example, stuff like the aforementioned crucifix gag.

At times, it can feel like it's moving a little too fast with the jokes and dialogue, and one running gag revolving around a celebrity goes a long while.

The game makes fun of Wii Fit, it makes inside nerd references like «A winner is you», it has running gags, and overall it is — like I said earlier — consistently hilarious.

The biologists have a running gag that plants created insect and animal life forms like us to help them spread..