Sentences with phrase «sight gags in»

While there were a couple of the sight gags in the movie, I don't think you'll loose any of the depth and experience in a 2D viewing.

Director Blomkamp is good at mustering speedy action and posting grisly sight gags in the background, carnage always hovering comically at the edge of your vision.

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

«I Love to Singa» is about stalwart determination, not to mention the simultaneous insanity and importance of artistic pursuit (and Owl returns as a genius sight gag in «Looney Tunes: Back in Action.»)

Sure the iconoclast humor of a Paul McCarthy work is a giggle for a moment, but after an hour it becomes a drab sight gag in a career of sight gags and potty jokes.

Not exact matches

When I was 8 weeks pregnant with our second child, for example, we traveled to a beachside wedding in Southern California, and the very sight of the ocean — all those rolling, fish - filled waves — made me gag.

One sight gag is, well, just that — a real gag, in the other sense of the word.

At only 84 minutes, it never bogs down with needless seriousness or scenes of emotional schmaltz, always seeking to keep audiences smiling with sight gags, allusions that are actually clever, and choice bits of music that accentuates the action instead of just being shoehorned in to hock soundtracks.

The «American Pie» franchise throws in another kitchen sink of gross - out sight gags by screenwriter Adam Herz («American Pie» 1 and 2) in this third, and hopefully final installment, of percolating testosterone commotion.

Early Man, which goes out in the UK through Studiocanal on January 26 and Lionsgate in the US on Feburary 16 — the same team as Shaun The Sheep Movie, which grossed $ 106m worldwide in 2015 — scores highly on amiable charm, sight gags and open goal word play; however, it lacks the nifty footwork and originality of the best Aardman pictures.

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.

In terms of the hilarious hijinks that ensue, Annie uses what she's only heard in movies to get some bad guys to the ground with a gun she doesn't think is real and later cares for a bullet wound with improvised drug - store items; Max makes a mess of a white dog and a shrine of photos inside a neighbor's home; and during the climactic showdown on an airplane tarmac, there is a very funny sight gag involving a very slow conveyor belIn terms of the hilarious hijinks that ensue, Annie uses what she's only heard in movies to get some bad guys to the ground with a gun she doesn't think is real and later cares for a bullet wound with improvised drug - store items; Max makes a mess of a white dog and a shrine of photos inside a neighbor's home; and during the climactic showdown on an airplane tarmac, there is a very funny sight gag involving a very slow conveyor belin movies to get some bad guys to the ground with a gun she doesn't think is real and later cares for a bullet wound with improvised drug - store items; Max makes a mess of a white dog and a shrine of photos inside a neighbor's home; and during the climactic showdown on an airplane tarmac, there is a very funny sight gag involving a very slow conveyor belt.

The skeleton characters allow animators to get creative with classic cartoon sight gags we rarely get in Pixar's work.

Cartoonish sight gags about being hit in the head and poked in the eyes are better in small doses before it starts becoming repetitive.

Anchorman 2, which was written by Ferrell and McKay, is better when it gives in to absolute absurdity: A sight gag involving a slo - mo RV crash is totally, dismissively dumb, but the fact that it's set to Captain and Tennille's «Muskrat Love» makes it inexplicably hilarious.

Detective Dee makes its own place somewhere in - between, and the result is a thoroughly enjoyable adventure flick awash with kooky sight gags, some questionable CGI, and a few instances of honest to goodness suspense.

Refreshing, in these times, to find a spoof on a genre of films that isn't just a rattling off of pop culture references and obvious sight gags, though Shaun of the Dead is still a favorite for many audiences.

In part due to the tone Waititi helped cast over the proceedings and the script which leans heavier into sight gags and tete - a-tat quips and barbs, much of the responsibility lays on the delivery of the actors who all perform.

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.

Produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, this combination of satire and slapstick also includes the requisite number of dumb, gross and otherwise icky sight gags, whether in the form of Cena agreeing to a «butt chugging» contest with a bunch of beer - buzzed 17 - year - olds, or some unsettlingly graphic close - ups of male genitalia.

Scott's comic energy helps keep the film rolling, and the gangly DJ Qualls gamely serves as a walking sight gag (sexually paired, in longstanding comic tradition, with his opposite: in this case, an obese black woman).

Perhaps most vexing to Max and Annie is that they are forced to go to their cop neighbor Gary (Jesse Plemons) for help; Gary's ex-wife was their game - night friend, but now she's gone and they're stuck with this pill who plays terribly, speaks in a creepy monotone, and seems obsessed with his fluffy white dog, who becomes part of one of the film's many hysterical sight gags.

Directors Letterman, Bibo Bergeron (The Road to El Dorado), and Vicky Jenson (Shrek) are more concerned with making things hip by adding in a soundtrack full of pop and hip - hop stars, references to other movies, and sight gags.

Lost in Paris returns slapstick and sight gags, now the fodder or annual Shrek imitators, back to the world of art, with the pratfalling misadventures of two caricatured romantics playing out like a musical.

This being a comedic spin, the movie, with Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum 2, Cheaper By the Dozen 2) directing with the blandness that has come to be his stock in trade, includes a «hilarious» pot - smoking scene, repeated sight gags centered on Fonda's enormous breasts, her grandkid's morning poop sessions and a last - minute gay twist that feels as contrived as the rest of Jonathan Tropper's script (based on his best - selling novel).

When the funniest scene in a comedy is a sight gag involving Kevin Smith, you might be in dangerous waters.

As in Planet Terror, Rodriguez emphasizes style over substance, but the sheer audacity of his vision — the energy, the inventiveness, the extremes to which he's willing to take his gruesome sight gags — is his salvation.

Some of the throwaway lines are rather funny, as are several of the sight gags, such as a recurring bit in which the Duke keeps accidentally killing his wife's dog, then replacing it with one that looks nothing like the previous one.

Lost in Paris The latest by married couple Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon pulls off the tricky feat of getting formalistic whimsy just right, creating a Jacques - Tati - on - a-shoestring romance that never misses an opportunity for a sight gag or other lightweight silliness.

Rather than be an elegant, moving tale about Christmas» ability to bring out the inner - child in us all, Arthur Christmas sticks to repetitive sight gags and awful — and I do mean AWFUL — dialogue puns.

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.

To give Grimsby credit, for a lowbrow comedy whose jokes are overwhelmingly rooted in gay panic and treating the bodies of larger women as walking sight gags, it's surprisingly good - natured, even sweet at times.

For example, cyclists have a habit of perishing around the accident prone detective in over-the-top sight gags and there is one farting joke in a recording booth that is the opposite of everything I find funny.

After establishing the high stakes and bleak future of our world, the movie quickly shifts gears into a more comic mode, with the process of downsizing providing an opportunity for materialistic wish fulfillment, an ironic realization that matters of class still exist even in this idealized world, and more than a few sight gags involving the juxtaposition of the normal - sized world with the small one.

Sacha Baron Cohen is perfect as Ferrell's European foil Jean Girard, and the film is jam - packed with both sight gags (the live cougar in the race car) and brilliant dialogue (the prayer to eight - pound - six - ounce - newborn - infant Jesus).

Captured in sharp black - and - white Cinemascope photography that complements its exquisite Tati - like sight gags, Aaltra undermines conventional attitudes toward the disabled with its dry wit and acerbic, vengeful characters.

An early scene shows Hitchcock playfully demonstrating the «swaying lovebirds» effect (the most amusing sight - gag in «The Birds»), and later we watch Hedren endure minor injuries while shooting the film's terrifying phone - booth scene, when Hitchcock endangered the actress with breaking glass and a fake attacking seagull.

But they also manage to incorporate the best of everything new that was happening in comedy at the time: the sight - gag overload of «Airplane!»

In «Wedding,» for example, Dad's misguided grooming tips set up a third - act sight gag that will probably have audiences gagging.

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.

I didn't laugh once during The Whole Ten Yards because I'm not amused by gay jokes anymore, have finally grown weary of Bruce Willis beating Matthew Perry, have finally grown bored with the sight of Amanda Peet wandering around in her skivvies, am sick of white comedians doing broad minstrel ethnic face, and no longer have a threshold for erectile dysfunction and flatulence gags.

The jokes come fast and are forgotten faster in what is ostensibly a dumping ground for half - baked weirdo one - liners and sight gags.

In fact, it offers a variety of sight gags and memorable stories that help strengthen what some could consider a weakness to the character.

The Monkees were scarcely more than a textual effect in a nonstop barrage of wacky sight gags and pop culture references.

The whole short offers sight gags as Pluto resourcefully aids Mickey's play and then duels with a gopher in a way that would make Carl Spackler proud.

Jim Abrahams / David Zucker / Jerry Zucker (1980) Arguably the king of spoofs, this exceptional film raised the bar in terms of straight acting juxtaposed with anarchic comedy, sight gags, jokes per minute, puns puns and more puns.

Happily, scriptwriters Anthony Bagarozzi and Shane Black, who also directs with a florid eye for killer sight gags, are far more interested in the winning flaws of their heroes and even their villains.

Throwing in a stream of one - liners and sight gags to see what sticks, littered with genuine attempts to cultivate a romance, is also a lacklustre technique that doesn't hide the feature's wisecrack - laden dialogue or general sense of meanness.

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.