Sentences with phrase «sort of slapstick»

If we went a little more toward that sort of slapstick territory, I think the film would fall apart.

Not exact matches

It's sort of like Glee with a degree or Pitch Perfect without the slapstick and one - liners but with added (realistic) swearing and a particularly believable exploration of sexuality.

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.

It veers, dizzily, between slapstick scatalogical comedy and poignant existential philosophy, doing so with the sort of invention generally credited to silent - film clowns.

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.

It's also frequently hilarious, mining humour in slapstick, true, but also in the sort of self - effacing comedy with which Carell is most conversant.

That sort of «someone has a ladder on their shoulder and they're turning around and someone has to duck out of the way» slapstick.

It sort of reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut book Slapstick, when the brother and sister twins physically touch their heads together.