Sentences with phrase «slapstick comedy»

Chaplin was a master of slapstick comedy in the early 20th century.

Critics Consensus: Goon is a crude slapstick comedy with well - formed characters and a surprising amount of heart.

That's the seemingly conflicting tone the game manages to strike throughout, with one foot un-ironically planted in epic fantasy territory and the other in slapstick comedy.

The movie's got everything from slapstick comedy, to jack - in - the - box spooks, to 17 - year - old Wynona Rider wearing gothic - black attire and it was an essential starting point for many of Hollywood's finest working artists today.

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)

There's lots of slapstick comedy which kids and their families should enjoy.

It was a very funny but overlong slapstick comedy about an ordinary man who worked for a publishing company but was also a dreamer and had fantasies about being an adventurer and a hero.

-- Customizing System which allows you to change how your team look and improve your team \'s skills — The funny plays of players like slapstick comedy — Half - turn rule suitable for mobile devices — Funny soccer moments: Drunks, dogs, bicycle riders and etc. on soccer fields — 10 leagues and over 60 different teams — Replay value: Contract extension system — Various soccer fields and weather effects

But given that the film is meant to appeal to a range of ages, perhaps his performance is more pitched to younger viewers, or perhaps a nod to the more slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

It centers on a rivalry between its two main characters, Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy.

A typically colourful, good - natured and silly romp from director - producer - legend Tsui Hark, this historical - romantic - slapstick comedy takes a...

It's a ridiculously funny bit of physical slapstick comedy on DiCaprio's part, and it continues right up until the Popeye inspired climax back at his house.

Smosh was one of the first YouTube sensations, becoming well known for the duo's slapstick comedy videos that parody video games and pop culture.

There are sections where the tone is uneven and too reliant on slapstick comedy.

In an era where Slapstick comedy has worn out, «City Lights» revives it despite being one of the first of the genre.

Critic Consensus: Goon is a crude slapstick comedy with well - formed characters and a surprising amount of heart.

Produced by Tamar Teifeld with live music by Jordan Katz, The Bad, the Sad, and the Broken - Hearted is described as «Greek tragedy meets slapstick comedy when Missy and her Chorus of Prostitutes spout wisdoms old and new as they battle love, loss and loneliness in the Wild West.»

John Wood (born 1969) and Paul Harrison (born 1966) fuse their aesthetic research with existential slapstick comedy.

Kerbal Space Program is equal parts slapstick comedy and majestic exploration — incredibly silly, but evocative where it counts.

The jokes in Woody's early slapstick comedies are strongest when the object of parody is ripest.

It's not a feature or even a short, per se, more of an experiment shot to accompany a production of the theater farce «Too Much Johnson,» but at least the first section plays just fine on its own as a tribute to silent slapstick comedy with Joseph Cotten doing Harold Lloyd antics and Buster Keaton chases as a serial philanderer pursued by a jealous husband.

It's like a «make - your - own slapstick comedy from scratch» kit.

If you're not into slapstick comedy, you should probably go with another course.

Set in an average neighborhood that is anything but ordinary, The «Burbs blends slapstick comedy and spine - thrilling mystery and is superbly directed by cult filmmaker Joe Dante (Piranha, Gremlins, Matinee, The Howling).»

The Zellner brothers combined alternate between slapstick comedy and poignant drama to send the genre into a new, more modern sunset.

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.

Unlike Ghostbusters, which manages to balance slapstick comedy and the supernatural elements, Innerspace cheapens itself by going for pratfalls, sight gags, and silly shenanigans.

Nevertheless, this film is packed with plenty of other slapstick comedy and sight gags to keep most kids entertained.

The less plot detail specified the better, but suffice it to say that if Sophie's Choice was a mean - spirited slapstick comedy, it'd probably behave something like this.

Long: West of Loathing is a single - player slapstick comedy adventure role - playing game set in the wild west of the Kingdom of Loathing universe.

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

Any Premier League season starring Jose Mourinho, Diego Costa and Zlatan in the same locker room would be more entertaining than The Three Stooges — and probably contain twice as much slapstick comedy.

April 7: Laugh along as Johnny Peers and more than a dozen dogs stage their hilarious slapstick comedy act (Natick)

It's slapstick comedy personified.

Other babies are delighted to double over by playing a practical joke, hiding out until discovered, or watching slapstick comedy.

At the heart of Elf's fish - out - of - water slapstick comedy is a really useful message about the rewards that come from embracing who you truly are.

You must be humorous but you don't need slapstick comedy.

Murray fans will be split, with those that miss Murray when he would do slapstick comedies finding this film to be just another case of him trying to be an actor rather than a comedian.

Fans and young children will have a good time with this, but other moviegoers won't be as lenient with the repetitive slapstick comedy.

As well as being a laugh out loud slapstick comedy rendered in gorgeous Lego visuals and crammed with DC Easter eggs and visual jokes, The Lego Batman Movie is one of the best character studies of the Dark Knight out there.

«Marshall» is helmed by a television director, who only returns to features films after forgotten slapstick comedies «The Ladies Man» and «House Party» from the 90's.

But perhaps his first feature, the innocuous slapstick comedy MouseHunt, is the most revealing for its cascading series of Rube Goldberg setpieces.

Instead, it plays out as absurdist, almost slapstick comedy.

Like John's memory, the script goes in and out of slapstick comedy territory, Mirren fending off Florida redneck thugs with a double barrel shotgun, to painful realizations that the couple can barely take care of themselves.

It has been a whopping 20 years since the Farrelly brothers» slapstick comedy Dumb and Dumber hit the big screen, and only now is the sequel, Dumb and Dumber To, getting a big screen outing.

Despite a background directing slapstick comedies including Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and Nutty Professor, Segal has a stronger handle on the dramatic elements compared to the scenes played for laughs, which he lets go on for too long as if he's holding out for a bigger payoff that never arrives.

Similarly, I have a hard time imagining how Stuck on You — a hilarious yet ideologically tricky slapstick comedy by bad - taste maestros Bobby and Peter Farrelly about Siamese twins joined at the hip — could have been conceived, much less made, in any country but this one.

And, you know, we have kind of a very long tradition of strange slapstick comedy which probably manifests itself, and the dialogue in more modern comedy.

It's amazing how lazy slapstick comedy has gotten in recent years, but Teddy's use of some stolen vehicle air bags results in some of the bigger laughs in the film.