Sentences with phrase «silly subplot»

«Somewhat anemic characters, a silly subplot involving the autobiography of a yeti, and a lack of trenchant observations about human nature may disappoint those expecting the high quality of Smith's No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency series.»

But it's not long until the almost aggressively uninteresting storyline becomes impossible to overlook; the uniformly bland characters would be enough to sink the movie alone, yet it's the hopelessly silly subplot revolving around the two families» conflict that signals Survival of the Dead's death knell (ie it's just boring).

(There's even a silly subplot in which the pair's idea for an app is callously stolen by a smug Russian competitor.)

A small part by Alan Alda, as the original Elysium founder plays out pleasingly, and it is his character Carvin that holds the deed to the farm, offering the story its silly subplot about a big corporation trying to buy out Elysium to build a casino, which at one point has Linda running topless (with others) in front of a television camera.

Considering this is a comedy and most comedies suck nowadays, I am not going to spend a lot of time talking about some of the silly subplots that go on in the film.

Not exact matches

The problem somewhat lies in misplaced priorities: Phillips and co-writer Scot Armstrong waste too much time on a silly love - interest subplot for Wilson; that time is much better served by the frat - boy idiocies, like Frank beer - bonging himself into streaking.

The film often points out that it knows some of this is silly, but that it also knows the audience will just love being part of the return of some of the characters and subplots.

A subplot involving a Cinderella-esque romantic relationship between the Bergen King and a peasant girl takes up a large chunk of time and is, by far, the wackiest and silliest element.

Steve Carell remains the not - so - secret weapon of the franchise, casually spinning off another inspired, scene - stealing performance as the mentally challenged by adorably polite Brick Tamlin, and his role is bolstered by a silly romantic subplot involving a similarly touched coworker played by Kristen Wiig.

You do have to put up with the silly romantic subplot, but it's not too big a strain.