Sentences with phrase «sex comedies like»

Not exact matches

Don't get me wrong, Apatow has made some great sex comedies, this one is just crude and unfunny; the jokes land like lead balloons.

A few years ago, director Nicholas Hytner directed the magnificent The Madness of King George; The Object of My Affection plays just like a weird sex comedy / romance directed by the guy who directed The Madness of King George.

But the concept of the movie felt like it lent itself to lots of comedy, this movie plays a game, its fun, its funny, the idea of modern kids stuck with Reagan era sex bomb idiot counselors was just too funny to not plum...

Like the various «sex kitten» characters played over the years by Brigitte Bardot or the eponymous Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's coyly provocative 1962 comedy, Lux is almost overly erotic because everything about her is so ambiguous; every swish of her shoulder, every bat of her eye, every curl of her toes could be either harmless, unknowing, girlish flirtation or provocative, womanly seduction.

All of this seems like the setup for a campus comedy, but not in the world of Neil LaBute, where the sexes have arrived at Armageddon, and the last act involves pain and humiliation.

Relativity Media bought sex - themed romantic comedy Don Jon's Addiction, in which Gordon - Levitt stars as a ladies» man with a porn addiction who sets out on a Don Juan - like quest for more satisfying romantic engagements.

Much like the Tina Fey show that came before it, 30 Rock, this fem - powered comedy excels at being laugh - out - loud funny without relying too heavily on sex, violence, or cursing.

If the choreographed sex scenes break into the pedestrian plot and dialogue of Body of Evidence like numbers in a musical comedy, that's because they appear to be the only scenes the filmmakers really care about; otherwise the characters and story can go straight to hell, one feels, as they eventually do.

Without the reckless air of youth on the verge, The Girl Next Door starts to feel like calculated imitation, becoming affected and, eventually, what a teenage sex comedy can't be: restrained.

They already have The Amazing Spider - Man 2 opening on May 2 but they also dated Think Like A Man Too, the sequel to Tim Story comedy starring Kevin Hart, for June 20 and Sex Tape, Jake Kasdan «s comedy starring Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz as a couple whose homemade video goes mainstream, for July 2.

Blonde Bombshells Where: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., 415-621-6120 When: All Week Why: The Castro's celebration of all things blonde continues through Sept. 5 with Billy Wilder's classic sex farce Some Like It Hot, Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore starring in the pre-code, Depression - era comedy Dinner at Eight, and Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe's final screen appearances in the 1961 John Huston drama The Misfits.

Despite boasting a cast list reading like a veritable dream team of UK comedy, «Sex Lives Of The Potato Men» is about as funny as being stabbed repeatedly in the face with a bread knife.

This dark comedy, action crime thriller mainly features «inventive blackmail schemes, flamboyant gangsters, power politics, greed, evangelicals and sex,» which sounds like fun.

While both films are somewhat lowbrow sex comedies, there is just no justice in this world that a horrible film like Tomcats could get a theatrical release, when a surprisingly funny take on the fear of getting married heads straight to video.

Think Like a Man (PG - 13 for sexuality, crude humor and brief drug use) Battle - of - the - sexes comedy revolving around four buddies who try to turn the tables on the objects of their affection after learning that the ladies are relying on relationship advice from Steve Harvey's best - seller.

In its final third especially, as Prince Ning turns jealous and villainous, the movie's wild violence spikes, though not enough to completely derail its carnival atmosphere, which comes across like an Oriental take on Werner Hedman's Danish In the Sign of... 1970s sex comedies crossed with the aforementioned influences with maybe a little bit of Circle of Iron thrown in for good measure.

«I particularly like sex comedies from the Fifties,» he elaborates, «ones where Rock Hudson is the alpha male.

In the footsteps of other raunchy coming - of - age comedies like Superbad and American Pie where teens just want to have a lot of sex comes Blockers, a movie about three parents who will stop at nothing to sabotage their daughters» sex lives.

Like some sketch - comedy Frankenstein monster made from the cutting - room entrails of «Clueless,» «The Opposite of Sex,» «To Die For,» «Election» and «Heathers,» the puerile social satire «Pretty Persuasion» is stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated...

It looked like a teenage sex comedy, played like a teenage sex comedy, and was a teenage sex comedy — and a lot more.

Jason, you've done sex comedies before, like «Hall Pass» and «A Good Old Fashioned Orgy» that have a similar openness as with «Sleeping with Other People.»

The beginning of the film is much like a typical teenage sex comedy — albeit one with a lot more graphic detail than anything Hollywood has put out — as two teenage boys spend a bored summer away from their girlfriends and look for whatever action may come their way, whether it be sex, drugs, alcohol, or swimming in the country club pool when no one's around.

The first half plays like a Woody Allen sex comedy, but then come the Nazis to lessen the funny.

From classic comedies, like Wings and Taxi, to some of the best contemporary dramas, like The Affair and Masters of Sex, there's a lot of bang for your buck.