Sentences with phrase «schtick as»

Arnold punches out a Barney - clone in a toy store (the movie's idea of a fresh joke) while Robin Williams does some decades - old Yakov Smirnoff schtick as a Russian gynecologist who gets his English wrong; for instance, he mixes up words like «thesaurus» and «clitoris».

His dorky - but - damaged scientist schtick as Reed Richards was probably one of the only things to work in last summer's Fantastic Flop, so Teller, like Evans, could wait a few years before making a splash in the official MCU.

Bruce Willis does his schtick as a rough cop, and in some inspired casting Elijah Wood turns up the creep - o - meter as a mute cannibal.

Not exact matches

Moby Schtick Who cares about this moron idiot «god» fellow that's as imaginary as he is invisible and undetectable.

@Moby Schtick «This does nothing for your position, Chad, as it merely shows that according to your own reasoning, God is a metaphysical impossibility.

I always thought the Tories «Vote Labour, Get Salmond «schtick was as weak as it was pitiful.

I think it was thought of as a political win which would make the cuts look fair, to back up the «Together in the National interest» schtick.

I do wish that yoga marketing would let go of the «weight loss schtick» as your called it (brilliantly).

The articles here are utterly relatable and filled with opinion / commentary pieces as well as the typical beauty schtick.

I see Austin Powers as Myers» desperate cry for help — a plea to stop him before he does schtick again.

But one still can't shake that feeling that Abramoff, as presented in this film, isn't just an excuse tor Spacey to engage us with his schtick, which includes several celebrity impressions and that sarcastic bite he's perfected over the many sneaky villain roles he's played.

She's spectacular as usual, and at this point in her career, her movie - musical schtick isn't tiresome in the least.

It's not quite teasing or knowing enough to be a spoof, which is lucky, as that old schtick can get tiring very quickly.

For as overplayed as his «you might a redneck if...» schtick may be, Jeff Foxworthy is a very funny man; the same goes for Bill «Here's Your Sign» Engvall, and Ron White's funnier than the pair of them.

As Satan, Al gets to indulge all his worst instincts, especially that I'm - talking - I'm - talking - NOW - I»M - YELLING schtick that's become one of his favourite tics.

Some of the funniest people working in film today, including Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer, TJ Miller, Rob Corddry, Jillian Bell, Matt Walsh, Randall Park, and Jason Bateman are in Office Christmas Party, as well as Olivia Munn who is a better actress than she is given credit for but isn't nearly as funny as she thinks she is, and Jennifer Aniston who gets upstaged at her own schtick by Actual Funny Person Jillian Bell.

And since miniaturization is the whole schtick of Ant - Man, we get to gee Marvel's famous and often seamless special effects, this time dealing with the world of bugs the size of elephants, carpet fibers like great stalks of corn and an army of various ants that help Lang defeat as many bad guys as possible.

Strangely enough, Crystal can not pick up the comedic slack; the film's climax is his showcase, and his schtick comes off as just that, schtick, in comparison to DeNiro's relaxed comic ease.

At first, Cusack over-does the tortured genius angle and actually makes the Poe «character» pretty unlikable (especially compared to a similar schtick from Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes); however, as the film's murder plot takes hold, the actor backs - off from showcasing his practiced version of Poe and locks into a less ambitious, but more likable, approach — simply reacting to the various in - moment happenings.

The jokes fly at a fairly rapid pace, but your mileage will vary based on how hilarious you find Pally's douche - bro schtick, as he is the butt of most of the jokes.

Since the humor of The Office is the kind of sly, nuanced wit that doesn t exactly work well in the context of a two - minute movie trailer, I was holding out hope that the studio simply decided to cram the more obvious Robin Williams schtick into the previews to lure in the people who made cash cows out of such dross as RV and Night at the Museum and that the actual film would be more in the vein of The Office.

The screenplay, by Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, is cut from the superhero - movie template, complete with a maniacal, power - hungry villain (Christoph Waltz, coasting on his Inglourious Basterds schtick) and a comic - relief sidekick (Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, a Civil War veteran).

The actors are serviceable (Courtney is a much better villain than hero, as seen in the Divergent series), with Ahnold's robot - failing - at - acting - human schtick being the most memorable character impression we're left with.

The Mexican setting looks great while a stellar supporting cast give it their all, even if — as in Theron's case — their character's schtick grows tiresome.

There are also the characters that remain which are no longer funny, such as no. 2, Scott Evil, Frau Farbissina, Fat Bastard (providing the film with the worst moments), and even Dr. Evil's schtick is beginning to become tiresome.

In Maverick, Mel Gibson gives a jokey portrayal of Bret Maverick that at times relies too much on his schtick from the Lethal Weapon films (not surprisingly since Maverick director Richard Donner helmed those films and we even get a pointless cameo by Lethal Weapon co-star Danny Glover as a bank robber).

Long before his rockin» goofball schtick began to get tiring, Jack Black rocked our socks and won our hearts with his first breakout hit, the tale of a heavy metal frontman who poses as a substitute teacher and ends up educating a class full of misfits in the ways of the wailin» solo and the well - turned leather trouser.

She avoids the A.J. Jacobs - style schtick of taking on massive self - experiments or lapsing, as many science writers do, into dry, jargon - laden territory.

To put it into context, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 had a go at doing this multiple ending schtick and it was so contrived and silly it might as well have been left out.

As the intergalactic bounty hunter's first turn on a Nintendo console for seven years, Samus Returns unsurprisingly sticks to the same schtick that made its predecessors so beloved.

Overlooked in her discussion of Sherman is the recognition that her dressing - up, role - playing, selfie - photo schtick was already old when she revved it up in the late 1970s, and that, for some time, such pioneering feminist artists as Martha Wilson, Martha Rosler, Suzy Lake and others had already been examining women's society - defined roles and images through photographic, performance - based artistic projects.

It is this perception of scientists as honest which is under constant pressure from certain sectors of society, from cries of fraud at McIntyre's blog to the more subtle insinuations of Pielke's «honest broker» schtick.

David's whole schtick is the Argument to Authority as represented by pal reviewed climate science.

Where billions have been spent of public money on; Dangerous warming as delineated in a Hockey schtick that used upside down data, where the rings from just one tree accounted for 25 % or 30 % of the claimed warming, where observed data was grafted onto tree ring and varve and other paleo data to give the impression of rapid warming but which grafting was carefully hidden behind other lines in the Hockey stick graph.

Oceanographer John Martin first suggested this ultra-simple idea, perhaps somewhat playfully, almost as an advertising schtick, to help him get research money.

Hockey Schtick went so far as to chop off that end of the graph.

I look at the rubbish routinely pumped out by the likes of Lean and Gray and have increasing difficulty in believing that they mendaciously cling to the climate catastrophism schtick to drive their journalism as a matter of pure ideology.

(And I am sure many in the public are as unimpressed with her objectivity as I am when she reflexively spouts her alt - left «Trump is a white supremacist» schtick.)