Sentences with phrase «than comedy»

It was also a lot more than a comedy.

It was more of a thriller than a comedy, which was good.

There are moments in both that make me laugh harder than some comedy films.

I think this also becomes more of a character piece than a comedy.

The film's core is all heart, but surrounding the dramatic moments is a pure sense of humor that generated more genuine laughter than any comedy I've seen in recent years.

As a director, I find much more interest in drama / suspense storylines than comedy.

On the David Gordon Green scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being Pineapple Express and 10 being Snow Angels, Prince Avalanche is about a 6 — more drama than comedy, but more light than dark.

Babyjohn Choi plays a young man who joins the eponymous department led by none other than comedy legend Richard Ng, Chin Siu - ho (one of the students in the original Mr. Vampire) and Yeun Cheung - yan (one of Yuen Woo - ping's younger brothers).

This new movie proves to have some funny and touching moments, but Judd Apatow seems to be more focused on making a drama rather than a comedy.

The movie works better than any comedy with this many nosebleeds has a right to.

More like a Tragedy than a Comedy because I'm not laughing.

Fey's character Kim is a single New York City media worker (a writer of news copy rather than comedy sketches) who eventually acquires an irksome and persistent love interest played by Martin Freeman, in a film written by 30 Rock mainstay Robert Carlock, and produced by Fey and Lorne Michaels.

As discussed above, The Interview looks more like an espionage thriller than a comedy with its dark, contrasty visuals.

And he teams up with George Burns and Gracie Allen in International House (1933), an early «television» comedy which is less a Fields film than a comedy revue, and they share the screen with Peggy Hopkins, Bela Lugosi, Rudy Vallee, and Cab Calloway.

The only thing I enjoyed more than the comedy in «Thor: Ragnarok» was a climactic battle sequence synced perfectly to Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song.»

If there's anything Spielberg does worse than comedy, it's romantic comedy.

And these streaming services are much, much richer than Comedy Dynamics.

Much larger problems than comedy sketches beset Mr. Paterson's almost - three - year tenure, including questions over the awarding of a contract for slot machines at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens to a company tied to the rapper Jay Z — a friend to the former governor — his interference in a police investigation into a staffer's domestic abuse incident and his use of his position to obtain free tickets to the 2009 World Series.

Other than that comedy gold.

Fey is really quite wonderful in the film, which despite the trailer is more of a drama with some clever jokes than a comedy, per se.

We generally expect more wacky humour from Fey and Rudd than this comedy, which is packed with perhaps too - smart dialog and a lot of warm sentiment.

No cinematic genre lends itself less for repeated viewings than comedy.

A newly divorced mother takes on three young male lodgers: perhaps a better idea for a sitcom than a comedy feature.

Although they have frequently employed Western styles, True Grit is the Coen Brothers» (A Serious Man, Burn After Reading) first attempt at the true Western genre, quite traditional in its adaptation of the classic Charles Portis story, a novel originally published in the «Saturday Evening Post» in 1968, more in the vein of its creation than the comedy, thrills, and snark we've come to associate with their style.

Still, it was better than comedies like The Bachelor, which despite starring popular actors Chris O'Donnell and Renee Zellweger, only managed $ 21 million.

Who else could kick off this list other than the comedy scene's ultimate weed enthusiasts, Richard «Cheech» Marin and Tommy Chong.

We got an Evil Dead remake that was more focused on grueling violence than comedy.

Sunshine Cleaning is really more dramedy than comedy; there are funny bits in there, yes, but the focus is very much more on the dramatic and relationship elements of the story — this isn't slapstick.

This is no less than a comedy about selfishness, greed, snobbery, eccentricity and class exploitation, and Altman is right when he hopes people will see it more than once; after you know the destination the journey is transformed.

With more attempts at black humor than comedy pilot «Z,» «Patriot» has some moments that work — I like the bit in which John has to tell a co-worker about his status and said co-worker then keeps trying to inject himself in the spy game — but it mostly feels like it's trying too hard to be edgy and idiosyncratic.

Few things are more subjective than comedy, but I don't really find Tracey Ullman or Wanda Sykes that funny.

The running joke, then, is that I have an unhealthy obsession with Night Trap, and so anything other than a comedy review that ends by saying it's the greatest game ever made would seem oddly out of character for this site.

He is, himself, an impersonation — created by none other than comedy genius Sascha Barron Cohen.

I can tell you, however (as can your parents if you'd only just listen), that there are way worse options than comedy - based driver's ed.

It suffers mainly from a confused genre that veers more towards sports drama than the comedy it's billed as, although comedy is definitely a big factor.

Inevitably, it seems, this exhibition is darker in tone and often registers closer to tragedy than comedy.

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the team that wrote «500 Days of Summer» and «The Spectacular Now,» were brought on to adapt the screenplay, primarily for their skills at relationship dramas rather than comedy.

Our biggest obstacle was defeating spurious job claims — no one makes the argument better than Comedy Central's Steven Colbert in which he takes jobs estimates from 35 to 1 million.

Tower Heist escapes being awful by being more crime thriller than comedy.

What you could retitle Bad Babysitter ends up being better than those comedies.

Some super dark humour but its much more focused on being a psych horror film than comedy.

Supposedly they are aiming to make it a «serious and fun adventure movie», but considering how rich the opportunities are for parody, I find it hard to believe it could be anything other than a comedy.

The film, wanting to be seen as more than a comedy, sets up trite little character arcs for the two protagonists.

This being a Pixar film, there's more than comedy; there are plenty of moments that pull at the heartstrings, such as when Miguel shares stories with his oldest living relative, his great - grandmother Mamá Coco (voiced by veteran Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía).