Sentences with phrase «such great comedy»

Alison Brie and Krysten Ritter are still looking for their characters to show up; its a tragedy to see such great comedy performers reduced to little more than eye - candy.

Deary, deary me... Super Troopers was such a great comedy... It's so sad to see Club Dread fall flat on its face.

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Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

Having such a slow driver in such a quick car would put him right in the pack, which would make for plenty of hilarious wheel - to - wheel battles and comedy spins — good for getting TV air - time and therefore great for sponsors.

It doesn't really matter that Anna Faris is such a great and hilarious actress when she has to deliver unfunny lines in an unfunny comedy that usually goes for the most pedestrian jokes that you can think of and is entirely formulaic and predictable from beginning to end.

For The Guardian, «there's a generous pinch of very funny lines» but not much else, and Variety finds «the romantic - comedy form... a strange choice for such a tale» even though it «means well and looks great.»

Never in the past decade we've seen such a well - built comedy / fantasy adventure game, filled to the brim with great narration, sense of purpose and feelings of joy and despair.

-- is just such a great symbol of women in comedy, being funny together without competing with each other.

It's also pretty clearly influenced by such wry post coming - of - age comedies as «Diner,» «The Big Chill» and, believe it not, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's great 1955 noir musical, «It's Always Fair Weather.»

Paul Rudd isn't often associated with words such as «Grace» or, for that matter, «tact», with roles in great contemporary - classic comedies such as...

McCarthy's sweatshirt - bedazzled homemaker is crushed, but instead of this big, broad comedy mocking her misery, Falcone looks her in the eye and beams, «You're such a great lady, Deanna.»

Isabelle takes Hugo on adventures such as sneaking into a cinema to watch Harold Lloyd's great silent comedy «Safety Last.»

I suppose I could choose the great movies that have made me laugh the most — the first that come to mind, such as: a Keaton («Sherlock, Jr.» or «Steamboat Bill, Jr.»), a Fields («It's A Gift» or «The Bank Dick»), a Marx Bros. («Animal Crackers» or «Duck Soup»), a Sturges («The Lady Eve» or «Miracle of Morgan's Creek»), and, let's say, a classic comedy (preferably starring Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur, and written and / or directed by Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks or Billy Wilder or Mitchell Leisen, like «Trouble in Paradise» or «Heaven Can Wait» (1943) or «Bringing Up Baby» or «His Girl Friday» or «The Major and the Minor» or «Some Like It Hot» or «Easy Living» or «Ball of Fire»...).

Somebody obviously likes David Byrne and Brian Eno, but to have every song of the movie sung by them felt like a bad 80's comedy starring Dudley Moore, not a contemporary movie about the financial crash that had such a great impact on all of our lives.

Though such send - ups have now lost some of their bite thanks to the Leslie Nielson - fuelled overkill of the 90s, this is still a great comedy to look back on.

Anderson's new film Inherent Vice, which is neither a masterpiece nor anything that aspires to such, supports the theory that he's always been first and foremost a great director of comedy.

To be a great — even good — R - rated comedy, such a movie has to have a balance between crudity and heart.

The criticisms of its glib race attitudes are valid, but there is a great deal to recommend, such as its foul - mouthed comedy and seasoned performers (Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell and Peter Dinklage).

Segel, a 35 year old whose high points have come in goofball comedies such as I Love You Man and Forgetting Sarah Marshall pulls a Jonah Hill by completely transforming himself into a seriously great actor.

Although The Disaster Artist maintains a great reverence for The Room, the film can be seen as a funny comedy about how such true - to - life absurdities can be a catalyst for such a terrible yet mesmerising piece of art.

There are really so many great gags and sequences in this that any fan of wacky comedies such as Airplane, Spaceballs, and Monty Python should get some real enjoyment out of this one.

Even when the movie starts to drag in the middle, however, there's rarely a dull moment thanks to the chemistry of its two leads, by far one of the strangest comedy pairings ever formed, and yet the very reason why they make such a great team.

Talk can be great too, of course: my favorite period in Hollywood is the»30s and»40s, when all those screwball and absurdist comedies were having such brilliant fun with dialogue.

Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.

(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.

He had made great films such as Harold & Maude and The Last Detail, but this is a satirical comedy film and it will leave you with a lot of inspiration and ideas about philosophy coined by Heidegger.

With Mike Leigh regulars such as Spall and Staunton leading the way you would expect something of greater depth but if you're looking for a safe comedy that won't offend, this will tick a lot of boxes.

Inspired by the adventures of Doyle's brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, and based on Eve Titus» engaging book Basil of Baker Street, The Great Mouse Detective is a smartly sketched blend of comedy, action, adolescent drama and mystery which marks the directing debut of now legendary filmmakers Ron Clements and John Musker, important creative forces behind such Disney animated blockbusters as The Princess and the Frog, as well as the aforementioned The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

We've already had one such failure this year, but the other attempt at making a long - lasting holiday comedy, The Night Before is actually the rare exception — a holiday comedy that not only works, but that is GREAT.

It's a truly impressing scene where the intense action is matched with the great comedy that has been such a hallmark of this series.

To think such a story would be palatable for mainstream America, but also revered as a great romantic comedy by many people 8 to 80 is nothing short of astonishing.

According to Ai nt it Cool News, Spielberg has already met with the comedy great, and star of such films as «Blazing Saddles» and «See No Evil, Hear No Evil», about playing James Halliday, the gifted programmer and game designer at the center of Ernie Cline's story.

After such a failure with A Good Day to Die Hard it's really great to see Bruce Willis return to form with this action / comedy sequel...

Parodies of the man however, ranging from Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator to Mel Brooks» The Producers, became comedy gold by putting such a horrible person into silly situations.

The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor (four times), Wilder's wife Gilda Radner, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Charles Grodin — and even with the likes of Donald Sutherland and... Read

The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor (four times), Wilder's wife Gilda Radner, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Charles Grodin — and even with the likes of Donald Sutherland and Harrison Ford.

Such are the cases with «Adult Beginners,» helmed by Ross Katz, whose «Taking Chance» deals with a lieutenant colonel who takes on a greater appreciation of the sacrifices of our soldiers in the Iraq war and written by a husband - wife team whose comedy «Blades of Glory» focuses on two male figure skating rivals.

Not only was «The LEGO Movie» a critical and commercial success, but «Brooklyn Nine - Nine» is one of the funniest new comedies on TV, and it's hard to imagine that «22 Jump Street» won't continue that streak, especially with a pair of stars that have such great chemistry as Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.

My Best - Friend's Wedding: One of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, featuring such classic comfort elements as: Julia Roberts, giant cell phones, multiple musical numbers, Carrie Preston and Rachel Griffiths as slatternly bridal cousins, scheming, a chase, and a fantastic ending.

English lessons can be quite serious, so it's great to encourage that side of things, because comedy is such an important part in all of our lives.»

Hotta created some great characters, and developed them with such depth, while Obata's art struck the perfect balance between realism and comedy.

The West End also includes Downtown Napa's growing cultural attractions such as the new Uptown Theatre, which draws some of the country's greatest acts from rock, jazz, comedy and country, as well as art galleries and public art works.