Sentences with phrase «situational comedy»

We haven't witnessed a production so disorganized and incoherent since Howard attempted to mount a sophisticated kind of situational comedy in the baffling and underwhelming The Dilemma.

The best I managed were a couple of smirks, mostly based on situational comedy rather than actual attempts at jokes - but the young couple of 16/17 were laughing their asses off at every fart joke - line, so I guess we know which audience is really captured by the film.

There's quippy one - liners, reoccurring jokes, and just great situational comedy that keeps things light and fun.

While Ruben Östlund's mastery of visually amplifying social unease is still very much intact, he's partially undone here by his own thematic ambition, which, in scene after exquisitely staged scene, threatens to put too fine a point on otherwise thrillingly indeterminate situational comedy.

Regardless of its shortcomings, fans of any of the primary actors won't be disappointed to see them revel in a diverse mix of verbal, physical, and situational comedy complemented by the refreshing role - reversals of many of the supporting characters.

Now Payne and Taylor move into situational comedy as Schmidt meets his daughter's future in - laws.

There are probably worse ways to spend your time than in watching a fairly benign (if a bit overly racy) situational comedy like My Super Ex-Girlfriend, but at the same time, such a funny premise feels wasted here.

The directorial team of Stéphan Aubier and Vincent Patar («A Town Called Panic»), along with new addition Benjamin Renner, have an uncanny ability to blend slapstick, silly situational comedy and genuine feeling to keep the laughs coming while also giving a good tug to the right heart strings.

That's pretty much the situation that gives rise to this particular situational comedy.

But Patrick Melrose is also darkly entertaining, veering between young Patrick's anguish and older Patrick's episodes of situational comedy without diminishing either.

This is situational comedy with quick one liners offering a barrage of humor being delivered by some of Hollywood's best in comedic awkwardness, in addition to Plaza, the talents of Bill Hader, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, and Andy Samberg come to mind.

«Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead» from The Old Vic, London Sun, May 14, 11:00 a.m. Daniel Radcliffe (HARRY POTTER films), Joshua McGuire (MR. TURNER) and David Haig (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) star in Tom Stoppard's brilliantly funny situational comedy, performed at the Old Vic in London.

However, instead of him being that clever, funny jerk that he seems to play ad nauseam nowadays, Harris specializes in good humored situational comedy and timed dialog.

Yet, for most of the running time, Edwards refuses to make good of this winning situational comedy.

The Swedish film blends situational comedy, buoyant classical music, and gorgeous snowy mountain imagery to tell the story of a family on a five day ski vacation in the French Alps who have a scary encounter with an avalanche.

As an experience focused almost entirely on situational comedy however, this kind of variety is more than enough to sustain your enjoyment for at very least the first playthrough.

Those familiar with the old adventure classics are showered with generous fan service at every possible turn, and both verbal and situational comedy work remarkably well.

For instance, the colours of Warner Bros.» situational comedy Looney Tunes, or the palette of the contemporary Adult Swim series Superjail!

Perhaps one of the most influential contributors to the landscape of situational comedies and progressive writing in Hollywood, Norman Lear transformed a genre known for play - it - safe humor into a platform for how Americans experience social issues.

Despite a serious premise, there's still a lot of offensive laughs to go around, especially when Deadpool spins around in Professor Charles Xavier's wheelchair — and when returning characters Blind Al and the taxi driver Dopinder make for great situational comedy.

«The Intervention,» it must be said, is also just a really entertaining drama — a feel - good movie that doesn't try so desperately to be a feel - good movie, partly because DuVall relies more on situational comedy than straight up jokes.

Director Alexander Mackendrick... reached a masterful apex of sorts with this wickedly hilarious movie's precise balance of situational comedy and stark murderous callousness.

Real life married couple Gordon and Abel own both of their characters and the situational comedy that ensues around them.

The few scripted sequences of physical and situational comedy the film offers play like gangbusters in an ocean of half - baked improv, which sidelines every other performer in favor of placing McCarthy at the center of a virtual one - woman show that she admittedly does a good of job of pretending to carry.

However, the political satire seems to be a bit less prevalent than the situational comedy, making it slightly less witty, but still very smart.

Situational comedy is usually supported by the characters, and we need to have some reaction to them — love»em or hate»em.

The movie becomes a situational comedy once the couples realize that Vivian is a bad influence on them (In case one wasn't certain, she's presented as a miserable person because of a divorce, and the movie makes a rather discomforting argument that the only thing she needs to be happy is to be roughly handled by a man).

But to be funny, situational comedy has to have a basis in truth, facts, the real world!

The movie becomes a situational comedy in which the gags overshadow the characters.

It is a situational comedy where laughter is happening not only because of wordplay, it is happening more in the situation.

The setup, with Ned moving in with each of his sisters in succession, is rife with the possibility of situational comedy, and screenwriters Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall restrain themselves from relying on broad strokes, allowing the conflict to rise naturally as a clash between the differing personalities and life outlooks of Ned and his sisters.

Hear Norman Lear (All in the Family, The Jeffersons) discuss the path of his career as one of the most influential contributors to the landscape of situational comedies and progressive writing in Hollywood.

It's a funny film, a situational comedy but it also has thriller elements in it.

Linzy's performances, and the visual language he draws upon in his still - and moving - image work, borrow from cultural artifacts that are rooted in the tropes of daytime soap operas, reality television, Hollywood drama and situational comedies.

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