Sentences with phrase «slapstick style»

If you liked the slapstick style of the original, the sequel is amusing.

It's unclear whether the film will follow this same tone, and some fans have expressed worry that the stories will be softened into a more comedic «man versus animal» slapstick style.

It's a «dramedy» more in tune with her films Admission or This Is Where I Leave You versus her slapstick style in Sisters or Saturday Night Live.

The Three Stooges are painters and paperhangers that completely wreck a couples» home in true Three Stooges slapstick style.

Paul was mostly known for his slapstick style of comedy, sharing footage of himself doing stunts, telling jokes, and playing pranks.

Frequent slapstick styled violence occurs on train cars resulting in death, injury, property damage and moments of peril.

Not exact matches

Having already directed the first two (and superior) X-Men films, Singer shows a level of comfort with both the material and the cast, and he contributes at least one brilliant comic set piece in which new mutant Quicksilver (Evan Peters) lays waste to a kitchen full of security guards in languorous, Matrix - style bullet time (it looks gorgeous and has the slapstick choreography of a Three Stooges routine).

Of course, a Batman movie is nothing without a Bruce Wayne, and, by a mile, Bale is the best of a lot that has ranged from the square - jawed slapstick of Adam West to the more dedbonair stylings of Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney.

There are moments of oddly dark slapstick humour when Pacino lets off some steam in that trademarked bravura style of his.

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.

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.

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.

There's still Slapstick - style films that come out, but those are far and few between nowadays.

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 Farrelly brothers return to the vacuously silly style of Dumb and Dumber for this gently idiotic comedy that recreates the iconic knucklehead trio that epitomised movie slapstick from the 1930s to the 1970s.

I really enjoyed the fact the the comedy style started out as a fairly realistic approach, but on occasion it slipped into a more slapstick type comedy.

Though elements of the Zhang style are readily evident — chiefly the ravishing cinematography (by frequent collaborator Zhao Xiaoding) and a color palette so rich you could eat it for dessert — the movie, entitled A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, is a less harmonious hybrid, one that shoehorns elements of broad farce and slapstick into the Coens» meticulous tale of lust, deception, and murder.

There are no shortage of exciting sequences, such as a first act kid agent battle royale to a swordfight with some Harryhausen - style skeletons; and there are plenty of laughs, including one hilarious slapstick showcase for Banderas and Mike Judge (who plays the Giggles» agent father).

The comedy put forth here hearkens back to Three Stooges - style slapstick, not as humorous to today's audiences as it might have been in years past.

To be fair though, there was a small handful of people laughing when I saw the film, but the comedy put forth here hearkens back to Three Stooges - style slapstick, not as humorous to today's audiences as it might have been in years past.

-- and they squandered it even worse: They turned it into a morass of Three Stooges - level slapstick and juvenile - style playground taunting.

Other moments of non-graphic violence include pushing, slapping and slapstick - style fighting.

And while slapstick violence is often on screen, the style of this film is similar to 1950's Warner Brothers animations.

Cast: Mixed gender (minimum 16 actors) Style: Slapstick / Physical theatre / Brecht Length: 30 minutes.

With a lighthearted sensibility and a wild art style that mixes hip - hop influences with classic cartoon slapstick, Mashima is one of the most popular fantasy manga artists in Japan today.

This year's showcase of top student talent include slapstick physical comedy adventure Octodad, from DePaul University's Team DGE2, University of Montreal student Richard E. Flanagan's boldly styled Myst - like adventure Fract, and Tiny and Big, an ambitious, comic - book styled 3D action platformer from Germany's School of Arts and Design Kassel.

From rotating reading machines to a film noir - style abduction, the Canadian artist makes ultra-real works that verge on slapstick.

is a collective group of women artists creating plays and performances that mix a variety of comedic techniques such as parody, sketch, improv, slapstick and song - and - dance into a distinct feminist theatre style.

If you don't have a sense of humor, move on, because the humor they use is the «slapstick» style of comedy.

The only real issue with this drivers ed course is that the comedy used is a «slapstick» style comedy.