Sentences with phrase «sight gags take»

The director appears to be having a grand time playing this game, keeping things close to the vest and the jokes fly and the sight gags take center stage.

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.

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They gag at the sight of him taunting, teasing and tormenting opponents before taking them out.

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.

Being a Sam Raimi movie, there are a ton of sight gags that take amazing advantage of the 3D technology.

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.

«Take the Money and Run», Woody Allen's directorial debut, is a messy, at times romantic, often baggy film, full of sight gags, overlaid with some of Allen's most trusted nightclub material.

The question remains is whether or not this hushed take on the genre can find enough brave souls willing to try a different and raw take on an concept often represented by cheap sight gags.

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

Tati's style is already in place, at least visually (fairly long takes chronicling the slow buildups op the sight gags) and in terms of dialogue (there isn't much), but the film doesn't play with sound as much as his later Hulot films do (especially Playtime).

This is the second film in recent memory to take an unlikely source and modernize it for today's audience, but unlike I Think I Love My Wife, this Steve Carr (Rebound, Daddy Day Care) update removes all of the wit and cleverness of the original, then beefs it up with stupid sight gags, terrible characterizations, and a plethora of scenes of «fall on your ass» slapstick that was already old back when the original film was released in 1948.

Then it shifts right back into irreverent humor and sight gags, as if we're not even supposed to take any of the seriousness seriously.

Tatí's style is already in place, at least visually (fairly long takes chronicling the slow buildups op the sight gags) and in terms of dialogue (there isn't much), but the film doesn't play with sound as much as his later Hulot films do (especially Playtime).

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.

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.