Sentences with phrase «sight gags from»

And there are one - liners by the ton, shots at «Terminator» and «Avengers» and «The D.C. (comic book) Universe» and Professor Xavier's «Hogwarts» and «Robocop» and «Annie» and Wolverine and «Frozen» and Jared Kushner and Fox News and Batman, sight gags from «Say Anything» and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and X-Men and, um, oh Canada.

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The sight gags and deadpanning from the crew are nowhere to be found, leaving the burden of engagement squarely on the shoulders of a featherweight story which simply does not do enough to carry it.

Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions of his sight gags, his subversions of standard comedic patterns, and his films» acute criticisms of American values.

They also get inspired laughs out of a couple of slow - percolating sight gags and, graphically, from queasy Max suffering a bullet wound.

On DVD, the Farrellys provide audio commentary for the film and 11 deleted scenes, ranging from seconds - long sight gags to longish, well - developed segments (some were cut because the film had built up too many melodramatic scenes back to back, the Farrellys note).

A zany comedy stuffed to the brim with memorable characters, strange plot developments and absurd sight gags, Caddyshack freewheels its way from one silly scene to another, incidentally weaving a timeless tale about «the snobs versus the slobs» in the process.

For, the carefully - coordinated stunts in their new routine call for fairly explicit crotch cupping, crotch smelling, crotch rubbing and crotch raising opportunities, sight gags likely to elicit cheap laughs from heterosexuals who feel uneasy about the continuous close proximity of the boys» bodies.

Aside from a quick, one - shot sight gag involving Wilson and a bunch of balloons, on a trip to a zoo, Johnson overemphasizes the comedy and strains for the sentimental connection.

Retaining the gentle, non-verbal comedy and daffy sight gags of the popular stop - motion TV series — itself a loose spinoff from Aardman's cherished «Wallace and Gromit» franchise — while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban escapade more expansive than their usual short - form gambols, the film should reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.

There is lots of physical comedy and sight gags throughout the film, much of it from the mouse's point - of - view.

Up until her joining the narrative the film had been funny, if a touch icy, happy to tell a story that shouts from the rafters that our environment is doomed while also making us laugh with visual sight gags such as a miniaturized Laura Dern in a bubble bath.

It would have had more potential if it had stirred away from the same sight gag in almost every scene.

Frank McKlusky C.I. has about a handful of witty lines, about one or two decent sight gags, and an overall goofiness that keeps it from being out - and - out detestable (although often flirting with it.)

Having served as assistant director to Jacques Tati on Mon Oncle and appeared in Bresson's Pickpocket, Etaix produced a series of comedies that retain Tati's situational humor and sight gags but move away from his Hulot - specific qualities — instead creating more diverse roles for himself, including a Keaton-esque loner, a rags - to - riches clown, and a married businessman smitten with his secretary.

Tense action sequences give way to jokes and sight gags that prevent the tone from becoming heavy.

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The jokes themselves aren't always as funny as Tashlin's sight gags, but they follow one from another more organically and Lewis plays them like a sustained series of variations that build to an actual narrative conclusion.

Although sight gags, like young Robin pulling his pants off, will keep kids amused, most of the humor here comes from sarcastic cultural references, decades of Batman depictions and other iconic characters.

The color scheme is more in line with the neon nightscapes of something like Edward Hopper's «Nighthawks,» but director Mike Gabriel, working off an idea from the late Disney animator Joe Grant, does an excellent job of balancing the visual palette with a bevy of mordant sight gags.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan suffers more from having nearly everyone in the film a walking stereotype, and more often than not, goes for absurd sight gags rather than reveal underlying truths beneath the ostensibly deliberate social commentary.

There's lots of good stuff in this one, from the incredible music by Henry Mancini (Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany's), the brilliant job of Peter Sellers as Clouseau, and some well - set up sight gags.

In one of many sight gags based on other movies, they lie down and kiss as the surf washes over them, reminiscent of «From Here to Eternity.»

While Scorsese's ending is far from a crowd pleaser, it doesn't quite feel as resonant or interesting, with a final sight gag that will get a few parting snickers, although in reality, it is quite silly.

No doubt you will be laughing from the get - go at the sight gags, the one - liners and the pop culture piss - takes.

After more reiteration of things we've already seen, the action picks up, and the movie turns into a visceral assault of bright colors and sight - gags and bright flashes of light and monkeys falling from the sky.

But it features terrific supporting performances as well, especially from male love interests portrayed by Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia and Nelson, who is responsible for the film's Big Talker of a sight gag, when his character runs afoul of a double dose of Viagra.

But Waititi also knows there's a unique groove to be found in the middle of all of this, and when the movie syncs up everything from its auteur's facility for sight gags to the actors» impressive young - fuck - up - meets - old - fart chemistry, Wilderpeople generates enough good will to make the stalest of plot devices feel semi-fresh.

From there it's all pratfalls, sight gags and bits of business involving super senses.

Aside from a few decent sight gags and a clever bit where Mitch battles a fleeing henchman hiding in a little girl's bedroom, leading the combatants to attack each other with the dainty décor at hand, the dated humor falls flat.

With an assist from two pet - store employees, they round up every other stray they can find — and so - so sight gags ensue.

But we also have to endure a steady menu of sight gags relying on homophobic «humor»; multiple fight scenes with very little comedic payoff; an uninspired retread of the smuggling operation plot line from the original; too many moments featuring the insufferable and just - not - funny Farva character, and an ending that makes zero sense and has no payoff, even in this loony comedic universe.

Falcone also stages a number of ingenious sight gags, most of them having to deal with the youngsters who have bonded together to make the growing brownie business a success, while a joke involving a foldaway couch got me to laugh out loud even though I saw it coming from a million miles away.

In its first five minutes, «The Hangover Part III» delivers a sight gag involving a giraffe that's exactly what people will want from this movie - something extreme and outrageous, a little bit mean and whole lot funny.

There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the sight gag with the sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.

But his surreal sight gags, like his satire, were inseparable from his chosen medium.

This year the most uproarious — not to mention best - selling — comedy was «Girls Trip,» an outrageous romp full of sight gags and repeatable one - liners with a star - making turn from Tiffany Haddish.

Yet his brilliant and surreal sight gags, the like of which have disappeared from the tube entirely, were inspired by the great movie comedians of the silent era, especially Buster Keaton.

Fresh from their time on The LEGO Movie, directors Chris Lord and Phil Miller are as sharp and anarchic as ever, precisely piecing things together before blowing them up — and still finding time to shoehorn in Benny Hill references and endless sight gags, not to mention violent squids.

For all the deft sight gags and comic situations — and there are plenty (including a comic symphony around the shenanigans of salarymen trying to count their bonus money away from prying eyes)-- there is also an undercurrent of anxiety running through the film as Shinji struggles to find work in Japan's depressed economy.

Directing from a screenplay by Kogo Noda, who went on to write many of Ozu's greatest films (including Tokyo Story, 1953, and Floating Weeds, 1959), Ozu fills the film with deft sight gags, many thanks to the antics of the son, yet there's undercurrent of desperation to the comedy.

There are sight gags around glass - fronted corporate boxes and Adidas Predator - style boots made from giant centipedes, as well as an on - point Alan Hansen impression from Rob Brydon.

Though its origin loosely comes from a three - decades - old book for kids, the original wit in the script, as well as the cavalcade of sight gags, will likely be appreciated by young and old alike.

The chaos mostly comes from Brad's inability to do even the most basic things without turning them into over-the-top sight gags.

Or maybe not, because while initially it struggles to establish a consistent tone, as soon as the plot kicks off in earnest, the film picks up speed and confidence, venting plumes of sight gags, bloody violence and deadpan, dead - on cultural observations like powdery snow from a thematically - appropriate metaphorical snowplow.

From Belle Epoque throwback through the rise of fascism, to the influence of communism, there is nothing that a perfectly dry sight gag or production design nuance can't evoke here.

The Hot Chick delivers exactly what you would expect from a Happy Madison production: Crude bathroom humor, sexual innuendo, and the basest of sight gags, all of which will tickle the funny bone of the lowest of lowbrow film lovers.

THE GOOD: GOLDMEMBER continues the funny sight gags (reminiscent of, and sometimes plagiarized, from Benny Hill) and some of them are laugh - out - loud hilarious.

Andersson developed this long - take aesthetic in a series of witty, offbeat TV commercials, and on the big screen — in his 2000 feature Songs From the Second Floor and now You, the Living — he exploits it for a series of killer sight gags.

During one especially hilarious sight gag, Jeanie gets a massage from a therapist (Kumail Nanjiani) who strips down, covers himself in oil and proceeds to give her the strangest, most transcendent deep - tissue work you can possibly imagine.

Aside from the natural humor that's derived from seeing a Lego Gandalf attempt to take down a Lego Balrog, the cutscenes also include plenty of the series» signature sight gags.