Sentences with phrase «slapstick pratfall»

Based on this trailer, this is definitely something different from Scorsese (we're not sure we ever expected to see a shot of a dog reacting to a slapstick pratfall from the director of Mean Streets), though he's never been the sort of director you could pin down to one genre.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

Meloni infuses Sax with a physicality that veers from explosively lethal to slapstick pratfalls, making it a great pairing with Oswalt's voicework.

Not exact matches

The comedy, however, is also heavy on slapstick, pratfalls and crazy disguises.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

Lost in Paris returns slapstick and sight gags, now the fodder or annual Shrek imitators, back to the world of art, with the pratfalling misadventures of two caricatured romantics playing out like a musical.

His ability to use slapstick while keeping a straight face is impressive, engaging in pratfalls without them coming across as desperate attempts to create laughs when none can be found.

Completely overrun by pratfalls, slapstick, and mean - spiritedness, Christmas with the Kranks never even comes close to being a satire on the falseness of the spirit of Christmas, especially when it tries to be all warm and fuzzy as it nears the end.

But based on how they proceed to behave, it seems that all they've been missing out on is the sort if formulaic slapstick and sophomoric behavior one might find in a typical teensploit, such as pratfalls, preening, potty humor, skinny dipping, ogling women, boozing it up, and participating in gay panic homophobia.

It's all a bit low wattage by today's standards, and the show's sweetness and pratfalls are replaced by lavatorial gags and laboured slapstick.