Sentences with phrase «tired comedy act»

Not exact matches

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

With tired gags, not - too - clever slapstick, and assumed identities that never really pan out to inspired laughs, Greif tries to achieve the semblance of comedy through farcical pacing and progressively hammy acting.