Sentences with phrase «surprisingly sweet movie»

While it's no Get Out (wrong genre I know, but it does star Keegan - Michael Key so it is related in more way than one), it is a surprisingly sweet movie, that while completely predictable, serves up some very funny jokes to make up for its lack of nuance.

And just existing as a funny, surprisingly sweet movie is where A Bad Moms Christmas lives.

Not exact matches

As an Israeli James Bond / Rambo combo who seeks a new life as a hair stylist in the US, Sandler gives a surprisingly disciplined, even graceful performance that's reminiscent, of all things, of his rather sweet romantic comedy turn in his least characteristic movie, James L. Brooks» Spanglish.

Written and directed by James C. Strouse, who devised the project explicitly for Williams after working with her on 2015's People Places Things, the movie is gentle and surprisingly sweet, relying on its star's undeniable magnetism and rhetorical ingenuity.

Rotten: A surprisingly sweet, mild - mannered movie for a teenage comedy spoof, and that's not a good thing.

«The Peanuts Movie» is about friendship and staying true to yourself — those themes hitting home surprisingly hard in a sweet and moving finale.

While it could have been just another generic coming - of - age, high school rom - com, this one is surprisingly sweet, honest, and lovable; it feels as fresh and bracing as a brand - new John Hughes movie.

It appears that the movie is going for an update on the 1980 teen drama «My Bodyguard» — they even include a sweet cameo to underscore that point — and when the movie focuses on the horrors the boys face from all angles (Wade's parents think he's spending his money on drugs), it works surprisingly well.

David Frankel's «The Big Year» is as harmless as comedies come; it's not particularly funny or memorable, but it has a surprisingly sweet story at its core that makes up for the fact that, no matter how hard the film tries, the sport of birding just isn't a very exciting subject to base a movie around.

And the movie's love story is surprisingly sweet, especially for those first two - thirds (before Morena Baccarin's Vanessa becomes a generic damsel in distress), something that plays into Reynolds's previous success in the romantic comedy genre.

The perpetually underused Hahn also gets the movie's sole romantic subplot, a surprisingly sweet relationship with a male stripper she meets during a waxing appointment at her spa job.

However, the movie is surprisingly gentle, sweet, and funny.