Sentences with phrase «takes pratfalls»

He hoists a huge load of bats over his shoulder, walks toward the plate and takes a pratfall.

Not every villain can take a pratfall and still be menacing, but Oldman finds the line and deftly slides back and forth.

As Bruce Granit, Karl is far less gracefully antic in taking a pratfall than Kline, but he puts those aforementioned biceps to very comic good use.

It's a shame that we won't get to see him taking any pratfalls.

Someone who can take a pratfall has to be lovable for the audience to connect; God knows, when he turns on the charm, Denzel Washington makes lovable look easy.

So don't feel like you have to put on clown shoes and take pratfalls.

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The day that Max Patkin stops kissing base runners or crawling through catchers» legs or covering himself with dirt or getting the heave - hohoho from umpires, chances are that's the day he takes the Big Pratfall.

The story takes a couple of sharp turns, ultimately revealing that it isn't a romantic comedy after all, but a shambling drama with a few mildly amusing pratfalls.

Playing a near - sighted klutz who refuses to wear her glasses (because she fears no man will find her attractive with them), Monroe allows herself to take a few pratfalls, showing her as relatable and sympathetic.

The pratfalls, the double takes, the slow burns, the fast burns, the inspired magpie badinage between Gus and his dim - bulb accomplice Murray — Leary hits one after another dead on.

Aside from the pratfalls and the dismemberment, there's a surprisingly tender romance between Binoche's gender - swapping offspring Billie (played a by a striking newcomer named Raph) and the eldest son Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville), but that strand of the film ultimately takes a jarringly brutal detour too.

This new take on the material reverses the genders of the leads, but mostly tells the same story — with more pratfalls.