Sentences with phrase «schtick works»

Moore does get serious, and when he does, his Holy Roller for the ethical culture set schtick works.

Ultimately, the only character you care about is Rourke's Ivan (Downey's schtick works for about half the movie, then the charm fades), and the film commits the ultimate sin for a summer blockbuster — the climactic finale is actually boring.

Not exact matches

His schtick will work on some audiences skeptical of Obama's law - professor - meets - Messiah style.

They make the apparent right gestures and tell you what you want to hear, all the while working the same schtick on someone else, or several someone elses.

«Me, Myself & Irene» is a labored and sour comedy that rouses itself to create real humor, and then settles back glumly into an impenetrable plot and characters who keep repeating the same schtick, hoping maybe this time it will work.

Yet, thanks to the firing - on - all - cylinders chemistry between the two leads, it just about works, providing more jocular hits than misses and giving Bateman the chance to ditch the nice guy schtick and Reynolds the opportunity to disinter Van Wilder.

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.

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.

The proprietor of a strip mall printing shop, Louis (Heder, comfortably in his «lovable loser» schtick) is stuck in a life rut; work, booze, pizza and bolstering his depressed and slovenly friend, Stan (David Krumholtz), who is convinced aliens annulled his engagement when they abducted his fiancée.

The pathos of Rance's sadness now that he's out of the spotlight, and the similar threat looming over Burt — now that he and Anton have «broken up» and Steve Gray's newfangled schtick seems to be more enticing to audiences — works because the film doesn't belabor it.

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.

If most of Showalter's schtick doesn't work, every scene Paul Rudd is in does, and so the project has a surprisingly successful give and take.

Wayans is a gifted comedian, but here he has to work the physical schtick to a far greater degree than we have come to expect from him.

Hyrule Warriors was already an impressive blend of The Legend of Zelda and Omega Force's sequel - happy schtick, but Heroes takes the idea even further, working hard to create something that feels unmistakably Dragon Quest despite the constant battery perform upon hundreds of enemy peons.

StefanTheDenier: shove it Chief Hydro: pretentious prick Girma: get a clue Doug Cotton: get some help Myrrhh: buy a vowel, your schtick ain't working Peter Lang: whatever Alexander Biggs: no one is interested Tim Curtin: and you are who?

Oreskes is the closest thing anyone will come to a literal «science denier,» because her entire schtick is based on denying the way the machinery of science works.

But not only has he gone down that path, but that's his entire schtick for years, and that's the major conclusion of his «work».

So, in short, my schtick for meeting home buyers online stopped working for me.

Fortunately I spared people photos of my clacker in the actual story, although my pregnant belly was pretty impressive (note that Sprog 1 was working on her teen angst schtick from a very early age).