Sentences with phrase «throwaway jokes»

But, again, some smarter details lie in the writing, as in smart throwaway jokes like a briefly - glimpsed newspaper headline that informs of the possibility of rolling blackouts in Monstropolis.

But more than just throwaway jokes, I love the more subtle touches of humor.

The plot has Constantine taking Kermit's place, sending the beloved frog to a gulag in Siberia — run by Nadya (Tina Fey)-- to serve out Constantine's sentence with prisoners the likes of Ray Liotta as Big Papa, Jemaine Clement as the Prison King, and Danny Trejo (The identity of his character is one of the movie's best throwaway jokes).

There's a lot of great throwaway jokes; Darwin's monkey manservant is a hoot, communicating through silent - movie - style title cards.

While I expected the interview to be like the hundreds I've done before, what you need to know about Joel McHale is that he's extremely adept at throwing out non-sequiturs and random throwaway jokes that can cause everyone to laugh and forget what they were talking about.

The film has its momentary diversions, a few good throwaway jokes amid a tremendous amount of PG - 13 maiming and destruction.

At his best, Bay is like Frank Capra on crack: the screen is littered with minor characters and throwaway jokes zing by with Zucker - like speed.

At first glance, Day's enthusiasm for men's unmentionables that day might have seemed out of place, or at most a throwaway joke.

And how funny it all started from a throwaway joke.

Subban created Breathgate with a throwaway joke.

While looking for the search term «Kyle Schwarber catch» in the SB Nation photo tool, hoping to find a picture of him in catcher's gear for a throwaway joke, these pictures came up:

Reeks of a throwaway joke that should have been left to die; even at a mere 80 minutes, this halfhearted Tinseltown satire still feels padded.

There's even a throwaway joke about the Marshall Plan!

A throwaway joke by Deadpool in the post-credits scene has become a legitimate candidate for the futuristic mutant.

A throwaway joke about Sybil and the severed head of the Lincoln memorial going out on a date becomes a brilliant ongoing sideplot, minor characters from the first episode of season one become the linchpin of season two's overarching plot in a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan (good M. Night Shyamalan, not recent M. Night Shyamalan), and a weird running gag about mariachis singing at people's birthday parties spirals into probably the most inventive time - travel plot any videogame's ever attempted.

Basically, there's a throwaway joke that the skin tone selection is also the difficulty selection.

This post is clearly about the throwaway joke headline.

Google made mention in its presentation that the Home Mini is more or less the size of a donut, but that wasn't a throwaway joke as you might have expected.

Not exact matches

Needless insult, it was supposed to be a joking throwaway remark, in terms of knowing facts, if u knew anything of me you would know I support aw more than most on here, if you cant share your opinion civilly nobody wants to hear it

In this flick, the dark side is as bright as a cruise - ship showroom, where the singing and dancing would fit nicely, while the jokes are as dull as Disney sitcom throwaways.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

Co-director and screenwriters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street) borrow the reverence of Pixar's Wall - E and the rude fun of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America: World Police to create a movie that's fast - paced and silly with enough throwaway clever in - jokes for their accompanying adults to justify a second viewing.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

The jokes are of the hit - and - miss variety, which is to be expected, especially since the gimmick basically amounts to Deadpool throwing anything and everything at the wall and hoping that it sticks (At times, even his throwaways are inconsistent, chiding one mutant for «cultural appropriation» and then scolding Cable for being a racist for killing the guy).

Working on a sprawling canvas, Judge fills the screen with visual jokes, throwaway gags, and incisive commentary on the ubiquity of advertising.

In this universe rife with inside jokes and gems disguised as throwaway lines, Guest himself appears as the wondrously detached director of the film, who asserts his authority by not asserting it when dealing with addled actors or wounded first - time screenwriters (Bob Balaban and Michael McKean).

The first hour rolls by slower than a Baywatch episode due to its extremely humorless jokes and throwaway characters.

White turns what should have been a quick throwaway gag into one of the funnier, more random jokes in the movie.

So much of what actually works here comes from little looks, an occasional throwaway line in what seems to be a screenplay that left plenty of room for the two lead actors to improvise jokes to mixed effect, and the situations that are far shorter than the majority of scenes, like when the son takes his mother to the Grand Canyon after she has spent the entire trip saying she wants to see it.