Sentences with phrase «slapstick involving»

It's not all terrible — some of the slapstick involving the ordinary zombies, who for some reason are compelled to take the steering wheel of any vehicle they're thrown into and rush forward, is genuinely funny.

One moment, we'll be confronted with scenery of death and devastation - and the next, there will be some cutesy slapstick involving Primrose Everdeen's pet cat Buttercup.

As the plot is thin, there's a lot of filler with side characters, including Octavius (Coogan, Philomena) and Jedediah (Wilson, The Grand Budapest Hotel) falling through an air vent and ending up in a replica of ancient Pompeii, Lancelot (STevens, The Guest) crashing a West End stage production of «Camelot» starring Hugh Jackman, and lots of not - too - funny broad slapstick involving Larry trying to corral an energetic caveman he's named Laaa who happens to be his spitting image.

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Among the other controversies the tycoon has been involved in includes a slapstick legal battle that took place last year between the billionaire and a former confidant, the investment banker Jeffrey Blue.

Thanks to a complicated series of events involving a corporate embezzlement scheme, the two are forced to convince the world their boss is still alive in this slapstick comedy.

But the implementation of those story missions, involving a borderline slapstick number of forced player abductions and cutscenes, leaves something to be desired.

This doesn't mean «Lincoln» is entirely free of heavy - handed moments — an early encounter between Lincoln and some young soldiers verges on the corny and there's some near - slapstick stuff involving spivvy lobbyists.

A broad slapstick gag involving a mishap with Brad steering Dusty's motorcycle is almost surreal in its over-the-top absurdity that one can't help but cackle.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

The primary flaw in Get Over It stems from the uninspired script that supplants genuine insight and wit for ridiculous slapstick and some of toilet humor so raunchy that I almost dry - heaved from moments that included Berke's almost landing face first into a steaming pile of horse manure only to have the same horse urinate all over his face, and late a disgusting scene involving vomiting in a party punchbowl only to have others drink the putrid concoction in bewilderment as to it's unique chunky texture.

Most of them are junk — forgettable slapstick fare involving goofy people doing goofy things in the name of goofiness — yet every...

This makes Peter Rabbit extremely jealous and sparks full - on warfare, involving lots of very violent slapstick, some explosions and some shock treatment.

The notion that every single person involved in a heist is bound to betray one another is an amusing premise, but the intermittent slapstick and practically screwball comedy routines executed to embellish the idea are incredibly generic in design.

If the very survival of poise in Lubitsch was always involved with simultaneously fueling and controlling the fires of emotion, in Edwards the impeccable precariousness of comic order often finds expression in thriller elements, as in a masterly post-credits robbery sequence that is tense, fascinating, as beautifully machined as the fantastic caper itself — and funny too, in a thoroughly distinctive alliance of the giddiness inherent in breathbating suspense and the melodramatic effectiveness of slapstick violence.

However, most of the film runs along without much catering to its main plot, concentrating more on its characters, tossing up some pretty clever gags and side stories involving such things as the making of jams, the girls» trying to help Gru to get them a new stepmom, Margo's romantic stirrings, and a good deal of Minion slapstick shenanigans, which will no doubt make this a hit for the kiddies.

Violence: Characters are subjected to slapstick violence throughout the film, some involving bladed weapons.

Parents should know that this film includes some slapstick humor, including a character whose false eye keeps popping out, criminal behavior involving a parent and teenage child, parent in prison, scary fire, business problems.

Because she is paired with slapstick prone Segel, she is thrown into her own episodes as physical humor, but such jokes are forgotten about before the scene is even over (as with an episode involving a car door).

People who go to Corky Romano should be forewarned that Kattan is easily the most irritating thing to twitch its way onto movie screens this fall, and that, out of all the mugs and desperate slapstick that comprise Kattan's performance, there is only a single moment (involving the accidental ingestion of cocaine) that elicits so much as a grin.

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.

May include violence where a character is unharmed after the action has been inflicted Comic Mischief - Depictions or dialogue involving slapstick or suggestive humor

Bochner uses word games, incongruous associations, and even slapstick to involve the viewer in deeper considerations of linguistic, psychological, and social issues.