Sentences with phrase «throwaway jokes like»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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 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).

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.