Sentences with word «sophomoric»

When they're not reprising decades - old gags from the first (the aforementioned «meow» gag, putting shaving cream on Rabbit), their dynamic continues to rely on the kind of sophomoric humor that went out of style back when American Pie was on its fourth direct - to - DVD sequel.

STANFORD»S BAND The musical kings of sophomoric humor have been banned from performing on the field at the next three Stanford - Notre Dame games after their Oct. 4 exhibition, in which, amid other bits of very low comedy, they parodied the Irish potato famine.

The screenplay (written by Carrie Evans, Emi Mochizuki, and director Christopher Landon) is an exercise in sophomoric humor and a gleeful approach to violence, blood, and gore.

Michael Ian Black may know a thing or two about growing up in the 1980s, but only someone nostalgic for sophomoric comedies made 5 - 10 years ago (American Pie, Meet the Parents, There's Something About Mary), done poorly, will find any of the manic shenanigans remotely coming close to even grazing the funny bone.

Director Joshua Seftel and his team of screenwriters, which includes Cusack, alternate edgy black comedy with sophomoric gags.

Back when BR was unscrupulous and accepted submissions from sophomoric amateurs like myself.

Apparently inspired by an actual border situation, the film digs in for plenty of sophomoric antics about polite Canucks, boorish Yanks, body parts, bad puns and how each side pronounces «sorry.»

American Reunion Film Review by Kam Williams Fading Franchise Revived for Sophomoric Hijinks at H.S. Reunion To some, it probably seems like only yesterday that the high school seniors at the center of American Pie were on a mission to lose their virginity before their graduation.

Not as much as «In Bruges,» mind you, but enough to make this action / gangster / buddy movie a worthy sophomoric effort by McDonagh.

We want to read about other people's disasters, not their idyllic sophomoric attempts to save the planet with purplish prose and beach cleanup parties, looking for every excuse to avoid coming back from their trips and trying on the ill - fitting clothes of gainful employment — when everyone else is working for The Man.

But the quirky fun, the surprisingly comical characters and the on - rails gun play being decent, if not sophomoric, made me actually enjoy my time spent at the academy.

The problem is that Idiocracy is never clever and devolves into a series of sophomoric jokes.

The film relies far too heavily on sophomoric audience indictments, double flashbacks (Robert Forster and Mary Kay Place are fantastic as young Nathan's terrifying parents), and three stale narrative testimonial forms (the police station confession, the testimony before Congress, the dead man in Heaven) that are each wildly distracting and atonal.

The endless philosophising is a bit sophomoric and more jokes would help, but this is one of a kind that grows more absorbing the longer it runs.

Unlike most other modern sex comedies, this one plays more toward older couples than it does to young men, which makes it a bit of a rare breed in this era of crass and sophomoric gags.

Don't let the farting, the peeing of pants and the tossing of cookies let you think that Russian doll adventure game Stacking is just about sophomoric humor.

Unless you think such sophomoric slapstick - y things as people being punched repeatedly in the neck or fat women tumbling on top of (or out of) moving cars to be the height of comic hilarity, there's not much here to recommend to anyone outside of fans who find just the sight of McCarthy to be irresistibly hilarious.

Very sophomoric campaign allegedly run by professionals.

Over the course of the ensuing, eventful weekend, these nostalgic alumni reminisce while again becoming embroiled in sordid affairs and sophomoric hijinks suggestive of immature men desperate to recapture their youth.

Compared with these, Mr. Bader's gesture feels like sophomoric sonic carpet - bombing.

It has felt a little sophomoric to me, like something I would have been into in my 20s, but not now as a supposedly sophisticated adult.

Bad does not «wash out» good, nor vice versa, as sophomoric pessimism or chirpy optimism might hold.

Donald Sutherland, a paranoic early sixties pothead, nods solemnly at sophomoric truisms and admits he's as bored by Milton as everyone else.

Written and directed by Judd Apatow, the semi-autobiographical adventure marks a macabre departure from the superficial scatology and sophomoric slapstick with which the bottom - feeding filmmaker's name has come to be associated.

A lot of people say I am too harsh when it comes to the Michael Bay films but after the first one, it just kept getting farther and farther away from the franchise I grew up on into a poorly put together film with sophomoric level comedy forced into it.

They offer pretty much no critical analyses, wear shades so tinted with homerism they might as well be blind, and make sophomoric jokes about other teams.

This oddball lark is more off - putting than endearing as it explores the often sophomoric absurdities surrounding Isaac (Brett Gelman), a fledgling actor and theater director whose life goes into a downward spiral after his relationship with his longtime girlfriend (Judy Greer) crumbles.

I blame Judd Apatow for burning me out on big - screen comedies; his movies tend to be so bloated with sophomoric indulgence and unnecessary tangents that, while I might laugh along the way, I never feel compelled to go back for another go - round.

Personally, I've been labelled as a romantic and an old soul with a sometimes sophomoric spirit.

Even though I consider myself an incestuous lover of sophomoric movies, I just couldn't consummate the affair with the original Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — so much so that I've had heated exchanges with people over my insistence that even Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was wildly funnier.

Stolberg doesn't try nearly hard enough, content to get by on the basics of sophomoric behavior and point - and - shout joke construction.

Allistair: In the decades after Steve Schneider made his famous quote about media hype in the «nuclclar winter «controversy I often had to defend the co-author of «Nuclear Winte «Reappraised against those incorrrigibly bent on using ellipsis of the most sophomoric sort to reverse the sense of what he said about media hype when climate models first collided with Madison Avenue.

My concern is that the report was written in a very sophomoric fashion, almost like saying «No, you!».

Some cringe - worthy sophomoric phallic jokes?

A reunion project of sorts for some of the merry pranksters responsible for 2008's Pineapple Express — director David Gordon Green and stars James Franco and Danny McBride (who also co-wrote the script)-- this unapologetically sophomoric romp is so crass it makes Cheech & Chong seem highbrow.

And though citations of 1970s and 1980s Italian cannibal films during the end credits suggest high - minded scholarship, the film gleefully revels in sophomoric cheap shots such as exposed genitalia and explosive diarrhea.

Certainly more than many Final Fantasy - based ROM hacks would; perhaps to the exclusion of Dragoon X Omega II â $» a game that would have been so much cooler with a less sophomoric name.

«The Office» co-writers Stupnitsky and Eisenberg give more workplace scenarios and awkward situations, but the level of comedy as akin to the lazy, halfhearted effort they put forth in their equally sophomoric Year One.

Even with a massive all - star cast including Leighton Meester, Allison Janney, Hugh Laurie, Oliver Platt and more, The Oranges still got a harsh thumbs down from Variety, their review calling the film «an unpalatable confection whose sophomoric approach to its very adult subject is likely to leave some auds bewildered and others actively offended.»

Some of the juxtapositions of works seem arbitrary, and many of the pieces are organized in thematic sub divisions or «chapters,» as the curators call them, with wall labels reading «Rational Irrationalism,» «Racing Thoughts,» «Love Letter from the War Front,» «Free Radicals,» and «Get Rid of Yourself,» that at times seem sophomoric and forced, as if aimed merely to prompt cheeky sound bites.

(2) Only a discussion and questions within their paradigm is valid — anything else is called a dodge (with sophomoric name - calling).

Mr. Trump's comments released yesterday — though 10 years ago (he was 60)-- are not just sophomoric or locker room banter.

When dealing with evolution, this is not only sophomoric but misleading.

This fascination is also sophomoric, based on a shallow misreading of film history in which Anderson's variations on old Hollywood topics seem brilliantly new.

This leads to a revelatory light - tunnel voyage and evidence of some filmmaking chops and intelligence packaged in something that otherwise feels sophomoric and risible for its own sake.

In doing things > this way we tried to make it clear that the original Legates / Davis > paper was an example of bad science (more bluntly, either sophomoric > ignorance or deliberate misrepresentation).

Other spots emphasized sophomoric «bro - style» masculinity.