Sentences with phrase «so hokey»

The first half of this movie is so hokey you'd almost believe it's camp (until you realize that Mel Gibson's religion doesn't believe in camp).

Just when the story gets a bit slow or Efron utters a line of dialogue so hokey that you kind of want to roll your eyes, a song erupts and suddenly everything is exciting again.

Mr Johnson is so hokey here too, of course he's not meant to be anything else really but Jesus!

Sounds so hokey, right?

Not exact matches

First you can, and then not Again you can and your mind is skull f * ucked So you do the hokey - pokey and turn yourself around That's what it's all about.

It can be very easy sometimes to find some reasoning that allows us to do something that we are predisposed to wanting to do, so sometimes a good old fashioned wwjd (as hokey as that sounds) can blow up our thinking.

In a half - hour, they have to convert you (which trivializes what conversion means), heal you (which is hokey), promise success (people on the shows have overcome alcoholism, are Miss America, or play in the NFL), and entertain (so they find ever more expensive sets with more fountains and glamour (which detract from the world of the suffering.)

So we did and we used a good old Kiwi favourite, hokey pokey.

However, like the camera movements in general, these dramatic tilts are so hasty and exaggerated that the effect is mostly hokey.

Again, I'll avoid going into any kind of details that would spoil the fun for those blind to what happens in the last 20 minutes or so, but after the intimate nature of the majority of the film, things jarringly veer into a really hokey, odd area that clashes with the rest of the film in a very unflattering way.

The backstory is so unnecessary in Rodriguez» mind that there's a hilarious gag involving a missing reel that happens at the climax of an appropriately hokey sex scene and bypasses key plot points.

That it succeeds in capturing the essence of the hokey adventure and horror films of the 1930s, I'll grant you, so long as you grant me the fact that its source material isn't exactly quality filmmaking either.

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.

If that sounds like a doozy of a premise with an excellent location and a classy Oscar - winning actress playing Sarah Winchester, then why is «Winchester» so dull and hokey?

The set up is a little hokey — we all know that this patchwork family are going to have to share a combi van so that young Olive (Breslin) can make it to the Little Miss Sunshine Competition some distance cross country, we just have to wait for the characters to realise this.

Unfortunately all the exposition comes in the last twenty minutes or so, and not only does this feel awkward, but the backstory's a little hokey.

Alfred Molina plays a far dopier role as an Afghan politician somewhat obsessed with Fey's character, but that whole storyline is so jokey (and hokey) it's hard to take it too seriously.

The hokey slogan «It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand», so commonly emblazoned across the windshields of these trucks, actually rings true when you're behind the wheel.

Exactly — I know it sounds a little «hold - hands - around - a-campfire» hokey, but I love me some s» mores, so that's alright with me.

After studying abroad in New Zealand, Amanda has decided she'd love to move there one day so she can wear jandals, eat hokey pokey ice cream, and continue pretending she understands the rules of rugby.

To be fair to Milestone their career mode is straightforward and bland in the sense that you earn stars for completing events which in turn unlock more events, so it feels like they attempted to use the Gravel TV show concept to spice things up, but it comes across as hokey, and not in a particularly fun way, despite some knowingly cheesy intros.

It feels a bit hokey to make nature paintings, so I'm trying to play up the kitschy imagery; at the same time, I am sincerely interested in delving into all the diversity and visual richness of plants.

They helped hokey remove the debt ceiling so he could spend and borrow like a drunken sailor.

However, the Finnish performance has a number of gestures for other parts of the song, so it seems to more closely resemble «Hokey Pokey» if that dance featured a partner - circling move.

I was told it was good, so I read it, but found that touching my forehead then repeating the high points and posting on my mirror to be a bit «hokey» and the typical «guru» style.

Unless in a child's bedroom or other, more casual, space I think that drapes should touch the floor so they don't look hokey and dated.