Sentences with word «shtick»

The comedy itself is run - of - the - mill and some appearances, like that of Sherri Shepherd as Hart's wedding planner, you have to question why the whole shtick of him constantly arguing with her is really there.

And he's not wrong, adopting the men - on - top routine as a kind of shtick for those pre-politically correct times.

Vincent Cassel is very strong in a supporting capacity even though he pretty much does the same shtick in the majority of his scenes.

There are fine performances beyond Oyelowo, with Theron reveling in playing a calculating manipulator and Copley toning down his usual shtick as the morally conflicted Mitch, but any time Harold isn't the focus, the movie loses its much - needed energy.

The interviewer will see right through it and know you're trying to pull the same shtick as everyone else.

That's a welcome departure from the trio's usual shtick on «Top Gear,» which became stale by the end.

Of course, there's also Johnny Depp, content, it seems, to move into his movie dotage doing shtick for which the film stops and chuckles appreciatively at machine - calibrated intervals.

It's the same shtick again and again.

Right, Eisner agrees, and «It's not shtick comedy, it's character - based comedy.»

Burt and Anton's tired shtick gets exposed for its staleness as extreme magician Steve Gray (Carrey) begins drawing larger crowds on street corners than the duo is able to muster in their performance hall.

Colter's a born star, with a magnetism that makes his good guy shtick much more compelling than it'd be in the hands of a less engaging presence.

Blank, two years before Analyze This made a whole shtick of it, is in therapy with skittish Dr. Oatman (Alan Arkin), trying to explain away his high - body - count profession or, possibly, leave it altogether.

And Nebraska does itself few favors with tired shticks, like deadpan gags around local yokels, and the characterization of Woody's wife Kate (June Squibb of About Schmidt) as a harridan who, at one point, «shocks» the audience by talking dirty.

The liberal - late - night - host shtick works better when you're shooting for three million viewers than when you're shooting for tens of millions.

Having reached an age where that old shtick about «not buying green bananas» has come true, the «traditional publishing route» is probably not my best option.

After this, it all goes to pot (no pun intended), with Cheech's Red convincing me that the duo were growing tired of their own shtick halfway through, and were desperate to create another persona in the hopes that new jokes would develop.

Director Tom Shadyac has had a horribly sentimental shtick going on in his recent movies, and while there are still elements of that in the third act here, it is a step in the right direction.

Holding a membership drive, the club is swamped by a hoard of wannabes doing comedy shtick, and the boys have a falling out.

Color Splash makes a solid case for a Paper Mario sequel that doesn't need to rely on shtick like stickers or paint, though I won't be surprised if Nintendo's considering using crayons in the future.

Or a surfeit of cringe - making shtick by too many presenters, including the distaff principals of Bridesmaids.

But now a lot of banks have run up to a regulatory limit on commercial real estate loans, multi-family... there's a big shtick now for the smaller banks.

It seems to be the tired old shtick where you adapt Shakespeare's Romans or Danes or Scots by dressing them up in modern military uniforms, which tends to convey the idea that the....

The overqualified cast shows up and does a bit of familiar shtick, bunched together in groups that unfortunately underscore how samey a lot of these superheroes have become.

Originally, Chris Evans was to play Tom, Rachel's ex-husband, and his nice guy shtick seems a good fit for the part.

She even develops strong chemistry with Sandler, whose goofy - everyman shtick at least isn't annoying this time.

Even Elfman — America's No. 1 choice for high - strung, high - concept shtick when neither Christina Applegate nor Sarah Chalke is available — is underserved by this half - baked series.

Jack Black is doing the same shtick again, but he eventually gets one to smile.

I think it depends on what shtick you're going for.

Mr. Carrey is the kind of performer whose shtick reliably trumps psychological sense, and the film's blithe incoherence with respect to its main character is one of its virtues.

But the Saturday Night Fever shtick wears thin as the film enters its didactic phase, offering up lessons on sex and selfishness at once facile and confused.

Zach's shtick feels old - already - and if you're gonna shoot for a pitch black comedy you need a better script.

Mr. Wilson shows that he can do the straight - man shtick without surrendering his amenable comic heart, while Mr. Sudeikis ably slips into the demented everyman persona that's defined much of his «SNL» oeuvre.

Michael Fassbender hides behind a papier mache mask for most of Lenny Abrahamson's dark rock»n' roll comedy but it's an unmistakeable performance, backed up by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is having a ball, and Domhnall Gleeson, whose everyman shtick we may grow weary of someday, but not yet.

Like Will Ferrell, Russell Brand keeps defying the odds by finding new ways to use his impossibly limited comedic shtick — and he's done it again with «Hop,» which finds him voicing the Easter Bunny, rudely injured by an unemployed doofus (James Marsden) who has to take him in and nurse him back to health.

I'll hand it to Diller — he's really doing a great Wizard of Oz shtick here... but he won't get away for long with the old «ignore the guy behind the curtain» line.

That's the message at the heart of writer - director Jeff Baena's debut Life After Beth, which begins its life as a sensitive indie comedy with a winning deadpan shtick and ends up salivating and snarling after developing an appetite for riotous, blood - splattered slapstick.

It doesn't speak highly of a comedy when one of its lead actors declining to do much actual comic shtick counts as a respite.

I am sure that if / when some of my students attend law school and if / when they watch an Irving Younger video, they will realize that my entire shtick consisted of me channeling Irving Younger.

Topher But jesus had not had a bad weekend yet, the whole resurrection shtick, so who was there to take on the sins of the guilty and offer salvation?

Here's my main shtick though, I want my vote to count but right now I identify with dems because I'm socially very liberal, but fiscally I'm moderate to conservative.

Overexposure and an overabundance of his trademark shtick had worn me down to the point that «kicking and screaming» would be the only way you could get me into another of his movies.

But apart from some modestly amusing princess shtick and a pleasantly slapsticky opening, there's no real reason for anyone over the age of 11 to see this one.