Sentences with phrase «scattershot comedy»

Adam Sandler's new movie is a pretty good scattershot comedy with counterterrorism as its backdrop.

Will Ferrell (Old School, Elf) delivers again, with a little help from his friends, in this scattershot comedy that just manages to hit just enough hilarious moments to look past the fact that there just isn't a well - developed, cohesive movie here.

While those new additions come in the form of talented veteran stars like Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Gallagher, the film's decision to shift the focus away from the relationship of its original three women to their tattered bonds with their even worse mothers results in a disappointingly uneven and scattershot comedy.

It's a mix of loving homage to rhythm and blues, scattershot comedy, on - the - spot musical, and the most outrageous car chase film ever put to celluloid.

It's a shame then, that with all these fine creators, this scattershot comedy just doesn't gel in the way that it should.

Critic Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

Critics Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

Not exact matches

«The Campaign» is a Ferrell - Galifianakis comedy first and foremost, with its brand of broad, too - too crudeness passing for comedy these days, but it's still timely and scattershot - hilarious.

A scattershot narrative is saved by the hilarious supporting cast in the action comedy Gringo, in theaters this weekend.

by Walter Chaw The sort of movie where Klansman dressed in the Teletubby rainbow are brutally beaten in a Southern Methodist church when they submit themselves to the mercy of the Lord, Red Grant's Family Reunion: The Movie is a scattershot Def Comedy Jam routine filmed with a noxious, hostile artlessness made all the more impotent by its desire to be whimsical.

Her immense talent in these films makes it all the more puzzling that the three films she's co-written and produced, including the new comedy Life of the Party, are so scattershot.

Every one of his comedies is merely a set - up for veteran character comedians to use as a palette for continuous ad - libbing, which results in scattershot jokes that feel like the dregs relegated to deleted scenes in most finely - honed comedies.

This Mad Men — like ambition — to explore the professional conflicts of a group of highly creative people, the sweeping changes in society they're reflecting and responding to, and the conflicted genius suffering from imposter syndrome at its center — might have been better fit for the length of a series, and indeed series like Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here and HBO's classic The Larry Sanders Show convey the combination of internal competitiveness and group cohesion that powers comedy scenes like the Lampooners» more effectively than AFASG's scattershot approach.

Whereas Deadpool was haywire and undisciplined in every way, giving it the scattershot inauthenticity of a comedy sketch, Deadpool 2 feels like a real movie, creating a more suitable canvas for convention breaking and subversion.