Sentences with phrase «slapstick action»

Ironic cuteness, 2 - d puzzle solving, jokes that are half - awful, half - charming, and slapstick action sequences make for a potent combination.

It's an intense, squad - based multiplayer slapstick action / strategy / tactics game, just like the original... but this time, it has a vastly improved control scheme, huge 3 - D environments, tons of weapon upgrades and much, much more!

While you are likely familiar with slapstick comedy, this latest from director Antoine Fuqua could be described as slapstick action.

Other than a few bursts of slapstick action, the DTS - HD Master Audio 5.1 mix is quite mild, but it gets the job done with a well - balanced mix that nicely prioritizes dialogue.

I certainly wanted to see more slapstick action, but I can't honestly recall anything in the extended cut that I miss.

As a feature film retread of a vapid»80s cop show re-imagined as an R - rated slapstick action - comedy starring that one kid from Superbad and that dude from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the comedy 21 Jump Street should logically suck.

Essentially a superhero film that is a spoof of a superhero film, Here we have is a winning combination of tongue in cheek humour and gory yet slapstick action that reminded me somewhat of Kick Ass.

The film also contains other cartoonish depictions of violence and slapstick action.

Like its predecessor, «Paddington 2» is a clever delight of visual invention and wit; this sequel draws particularly from the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for its ingenious slapstick action set pieces, while the screenplay by director Paul King and Simon Farnaby packs the dialogue with fun wordplay and tiny details that pay off in major comic ways.

Before they reteam for next year's all - female Ghostbusters, Bridesmaids director Paul Feig and his regular muse Melissa McCarthy pastiche the Bourne - style espionage movie in this slapstick action flick.

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in ’21 Jump Street» As a feature film retread of a vapid»80s cop show re-imagined as an R - rated slapstick action - comedy starring that one kid from Superbad and that dude from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the comedy 21 Jump Street should logically suck.

Before they reteam for next year's all - female «Ghostbusters», «Bridesmaids» director Paul Feig and his regular muse Melissa McCarthy pastiche the «Bourne» - style espionage movie in this slapstick action flick.

Hired to retrieve the gloriously tacky Golden Buddha, Lee stumbles at first, but then roars back to get revenge in this slapstick action fest.

The Three Stooges in animated slapstick action!

Not exact matches

With its mix of live - action and hyper - real animal animation, Peter Rabbit plays like a country cousin to Paul King's Paddington films, similarly balancing slapstick, absurdism, and a touch of gross - out humor, though without King's transcendently oddball sensibility.

Young audiences will enjoy the fantastic animation, minor action sequences, and visual displays accompanied with light humour; especially absurd and slapstick.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

It's an entertaining mix of hilarious action mayhem, slapstick...

It's not brain dead comedy created solely for slapstick humor but has a self - depreciating way of portraying the life of its central characters and their actions.

Action movie blow - ups are interlaced with dumb jokes and slapstick.

This seems to be director Fredrik Bond's main goal here: to blend genres from grim drama to sweet romance to goofy slapstick to Taken - style action violence.

Just when you think that Snowpiercer has settled into a Hollywood action movie rhythm, up pops some slapstick humour.

Diaz does ditsy - feisty well and Cruise is watchable in self - deprecating action - slapstick mode.

The film is a buddy action comedy in the vein of «The In - Laws» and «Midnight Run,» with a splash of 1930s movie slapstick.

Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud excel in pleasing the fans of Despicable Me with much of the same spy action and slapstick minion comedy seen in the first film, only amped up to greater heights for this highly anticipated sequel.

The Scalphunters is pitched roughly on the same level as one of those live - action Disney pictures from the Sixties and Seventies, like The Cat from Outer Space or Blackbeard's Ghost — all Technicolor and slapstick and even, I shit you not, tweetie bird sounds whenever our heroes get conked on the head.

Even attempts at slapstick come off subdued in a film that, without Sarandon, could have failed miserably but which appears to be holding back from more melodramatic actions as though trying too hard to cater to an arty audience.

What was implausible in the older film becomes absurd to the point of insult in this way - over-the-top action comedy that fills up screen time with noise and slapstick whenever it has no idea where to go.

Unfortunately this film is not one of my favorites, it plays more like a slapstick comedy, which is not funny, with a few decent action scenes chucked in.

This brilliant pastiche of the Hollywood action movie is brought to you by the same team as Shaun Of The Dead, and has the same mix of silly one - liners, slapstick and spoofery.

The formula of broad slapstick, sticky schmaltz, and simple premises continued throughout many of the worst children's fare, and one can blame Home Alone for a good part of why most live - action kids flicks are so devoid of anything truly worthwhile.

Continuing his witty live - action adaptation of Michael Bond's series of whimsical children's books, writer / director Paul King, teaming with co-writer Simon Farnaby, carry on the elaborately endearing slapstick silliness, replete with imaginative interludes and inventive, colorful sets.

But it's much more fizzy and action - packed than its successor, rife with slapstick comedy and some very broad, uncomfortable racial humor centered on the exchange - student character of Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe).

In these moments, Blue Streak works both as a satire of action - movie conventions and as a slapstick meditation on the disparity in power between the police and the poor people they protect and serve.

This is a slapstick - heavy animated adventure, with so many over-the-top and zany comedic moments and action sequences, especially in the second half, that kids, and adults, will likely feel overwhelmed and tired - out even before the «soaring» climactic battle sequence.

Night at the Museum II (PG for action, crude humor and mild epithets) Ben Stiller is back for another round of hijinks with historical figures as a hapless night watchman Larry Daley, with the slapstick taking place this time at the Smithsonian.

Down the road we meet more extended family and long lost friends, including a pair of low - life cousins, and an old crony played with cagey charm by Stacy Keach: the action is sandwiched between a blackly comic side trip to the family graveyard, and a slapstick «air compressor caper» at a neighboring farm.

Thankfully, that warm, funny story is preserved in the middle of this animated feature, stretched out with lots of the usual slapstick and action mayhem.

It's a pretty clever idea for a movie by Landis, combining meet - cute rom - com tropes with slapstick shootout action.

While the film continually threatens to indulge in smiley culture - clash slapstick, McCarthy's script continually grounds the action in the characters, who emerge as fully rounded people who are engagingly unpredictable.

Plenty of slapstick and over-the-top action sequences accompany the mystery — or at least make it louder.

Yuen Woo Ping, the guy who's directed just about every cool action sequence from the last decade (Kill Bill, The Matrix, etc), is the director and he blends the action and the obligatory slapstick comedy very well.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you prefer your action flicks to focus on action and not slapstick comedy OR you are already convinced Channing Tatum is less talented than Jason Statham despite his appearance in most movies these days (admitted exaggeration)

But the film meanders, relying heavily on slapstick visual gags (one of the staples of the studios» 1960s live action pieces, which seem heavy - handed and quite dated today).

Tempting and not entirely inaccurate, but in truth The Tuxedo is more than just cheerfully misogynistic (and most of Chan's films are, in one way or another, woman - hating), cartoonish, and even racist in a Green Hornet / Kato sort of way — The Tuxedo is a symptom of a far deeper concern involving the inability of the West to ever make proper use of hijacked foreign commodities or construct an action film anymore that doesn't resort to slapstick childishness and / or grotesque violence.

It zigs from the high - octane action of the speedways, to maudlin moments with schmaltzy speeches, to whimsical slapstick and an abundance of «ha ha you're old» gags at Lightning's expense.

Most of the time the movie is a knockabout slapstick comedy with a «Back to the Future» feeling, staging grand action sequences and feeding audiences new plot information every few minutes, but of course, being a Pixar film, «Coco» is also building toward emotionally overwhelming moments, so stealthily that you may be surprised to find yourself wiping away a tear even though the studio has been using the sneak - attack playbook for decades.

Instead, Tower Heist is content to craft slapstick amusement, action sequences and star power into an agreeable escapade.

Black's film is an homage to Raymond Chandler stories (the film is divided into chapters, each named after a Chandler novel), an action movie, a buddy movie and a Hollywood satire with a touch of slapstick and romance chucked into the mix for good measure.

The Bug Butcher is a chaotic and intense 2D action shooter that showcases merciless arcade shoot»em up gameplay with just the right amount of slapstick humor.