Sentences with phrase «sight gags like»

Great sight gags like the My Dinner with Andre action figures and Remains of the Day lunchbox.

There's an out - of - nowhere stabbing to rival Psycho's, but also sublime sight gags like a corpse stashed in a retractable sofa bed and a birthday cake that gets squished before it can be entered into police evidence.

If there is a weakness to Sol Goode, it's because it occasionally tries to be dumb, I guess because someone felt it needed more laughs, with crude sight gags like dog poop, farting, and having characters have to announce they need a bowel movement frequently.

Especially early on, the movie alternates innocuously lame sight gags like a dog wearing a bike helmet with jokes about anal sex and webcam masturbation.

Not exact matches

There are gigglesome set - pieces, witty sight gags, clever one - liners and references that actually skewer their original source rather than just replicate them for the recognition factor - Megamind's Obama - like «No You Can't» posters get a laugh every time they pop up on screen.

It would be excusable if the one - liners and sight gags were actually, you know, funny, but having Optimus and his gang act like impatient 5 - year - olds and getting peed on by dogs is anything but.

But like the best work of Aardman, these touches or little sight gags take a back seat to the plot, and the film still works whatever age or however culture - literate you may be.

Hey, if the sight of two beautiful, virile young women who are, like all beautiful, virile young women everywhere, are clearly gagging for it with absolutely anyone, including sad old gits, gets you upset then fuck off, cos we here at AICN are not elitist, pompous dickwads like you must be.

Like most comedies (and especially sight - gag comedies) it gets a bit tiring towards the end.

There are paranoid people and then there are people like Jerry, who even keeps his refrigerator and its contents under lock and key (one of the more inspired sight gags are the combination - locked jugs of coffee and pudding).

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.

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.

Granted, we wish the sight gags were slightly funnier and the movie looks like a very familiar cousin to Sony Animation's 2007 hit «Surf's Up,» but for now?

Although much of the humor and tone of the film is on par with it's original source, the sight gags and puns type humor was done to death by better films like Airplane!

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.

A.O. Scott of The New York Times is quoted as saying it was, «witless, charmless, and unimaginative» while Richard Roeper said it had a «recycled plot, lame sight gags, [and] leprechaun - like stock characters.»

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.

Red herrings abound narratively and literally, Channing Tatum sells a White House Down dig with adorable earnestness and there's a killer Benny Hill sight gag that I seemed to be the only one in my audience to get (it goes by very quick) and things like this allowed me to appreciate 22 Jump Street's «we're the same but we know it» nature more than I pulled against it.

The light - hearted tone does not fail altogether, but the sight gags and pratfalls just seem like they belong in a different film.

In case it isn't obvious yet, the film is filled with plenty of physical humor and sight gags that have an almost cartoon - like logic to them (A character's nose gets stuck in some closing doors, leaving her hanging above the ground — and flattening the nose).

In Son of Paleface Frank Tashlin solved a similar problem for Bob Hope by fully committing the film's sight gags to the mythic grotesqueries and bouncing - back - therefrom of Road Runner — style animated cartoons, but like a ten - year - old kid perpetually yelling «Fake!»

Master of None not only has time for random asides like a talk show hosted by Raven - Symoné, it downright delights in them, finding room for jokes and sight gags and offbeat moments.

The film's aspect ratio changes throughout for no discernible reason; an early scene in which Luisaidh witnesses a neighbour committing suicide is quickly forgotten; and the frequent never - explained sight of a naked man in another neighbour's garden just seems like the kind of quirky visual gag you'd find in a Richard Curtis movie.

Fey and Carlock pushed their irreverent and reflexive comedy to the max, creating episodes that played by like super-brainy live - action Mad strips, musical with speed banter and crammed with sight gags.

Absent are the inane sight gags and puns of films like Hexed and Loaded Weapon 1.

The show is also filled with throwaway sight gags - a tabloid headline reads, «ANGELINA ADOPTS VAMPIRE BABY» - and there are local eccentrics who, like some of the Coen brothers backwoods creations, are amusingly thick - headed.

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.

Seeing heads transplanted between humans and Chihuahuas might have seemed like a funny, surreal sight gag on paper, but it plays out like a mildly horrific turn of events when you see it on the big screen.

Even if you don't like the 40 - year - old's humour, and many don't, you can at least appreciate its gleefully juvenile craft — scenes chockablock with sight gags, rapid - fire cutaways to hilariously absurd punchlines, painfully awkward pauses that last so long you eventually laugh, all of it wrapped in an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture that has made him a bro deity among the coveted 18 - to 34 - year - old male demographic.

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.

Its charms lie in the lush animation (every character and object in the film have a fabric - like quality), kinetic energy, and an abundance of giggle - inducing sight gags (the audience at the Debussy theater especially enjoyed a bit where a scared troll pooped out cupcakes).

Wacky sight gags, groan inducing puns, what seems like an endless supply of star studded cameos, the required battle with a fried frog's legs lovin» bad guy and a bunch of really great musical numbers soon follow all to hilarious, sometimes humbly sweet results.

Like the latter, Hazard isn't trying to be «funny» as he plays the increasingly panicked passengers, but to be as over-dramatically real as he can given the ceaseless sight gags.

The humor in the film starts strong with a great deal of visual sight gags such as swastika - shaped moon bases and Hindenburg - like spaceships — each of these should make even the harshest critic smile.

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.

Yet the horror mixes with sight gags, like outsize hands for Sylvia Palacios Whitman and TV clowns for Ralston Farina — and the performers seek comfort in letting it all hang out.