Sentences with phrase «used as a comic relief»

Mary - Louise Parker's inebriated character, used as comic relief, is wildly out of place when it comes to tone.

The portrayal of Tamils is the film is extremely stereotypical, and is obviously used as a comic relief.

We get great glimpses of Ronnie's peculiar sex life intertwined with drug - fuelled, homosexual orgies with politicians, but these scenes are merely used as comic relief before returning back to the match made in east end.

The performances from Hemsworth and Shannon are fine, barely rising above mediocre, while other actors are used as comic relief.

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Comic Relief is a uniquely American dynamic, created by comedy writer / producer Bob Zmuda as a way of using laughter to elicit generosity.

Avranas attempts to make use of casting Jim Carrey against type by allowing nearly all of the morbid comic relief to be generated by a lewd and lascivious Marton Csokas, here in prime over-the-top form as a bitchy, pretentious pulp author who churns out perverse novels which would be loosely defined as torture porn.

Though the goat is mostly used as a form of comic relief in that episode, Turo is quick to point out that the critter is a necessary inhabitant of his barn because the horses like him.

However, with what's there, they do get good use out of the stars, with Harrison Ford (Ender's Game) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Sabotage) recurring throughout the movie just enough to keep their effort above a cameo, and Antonio Banderas gets some good laughs in a comic relief role as the fighter who is always passed over, but really wants to be back in the fold.

Such seemingly comic - relief scenes as seeing her using Reiner's car windshield as a sexual device, or try to force through a confession in a church on a priest that wants none of it, play out as if they are evocative of an oddity or perverse aberration from a normally cool, calm, collected, scheming partner who is always in control.

In fact, most of the laughs are of the nervous, comic relief variety, used to temper the heavy doses of sometimes bloody confrontations that occur with increasing frequency as the movie draws to its conclusion.

Every group needs a joker, and it is wise of actor Ty Burrell to portray his joker as a guy who genuinely uses sarcasm and arrogance to face down life's problems instead of just comic relief for the audience's benefit.

Arkin is used far more effectively as a vital character to the story and dependable comic relief.

Pegg's character remains comic relief, too often his scenes end with the equivalent of a rim shot, but Pegg shows his dramatic chops during a confrontational sequence where he's used as a human bomb.

Its efforts to make us laugh, using the autistic brother for comic relief and a very mild variation on Downey's Tony Stark shtick, are mostly fruitless as well.

It has a will of its own, bitch slapping baddies trying to take down its wearer and the «character» is used as effective comic relief.

Caterers will benefit most from signs that can be reused, such as a general football themed graphic that can be used to promote various international tournaments, as well as signs for other events, for example, comic relief, Christmas menus, school sports day or pupil design competitions etc..

Here the artist uses gender reversal as she observes: «I made him (the Interrogator) a woman so as to undermine him» thus adding comic relief to this already horrific scenario of torture, cruelty and masochism.