Sentences with phrase «visual gags»

It's impossible to do justice to the metric ton of visual gags and brilliant moments within.

Its all completely and totally predictable with visual gags that have been used all before.

The film is still a mix of off the wall madness, emotion and realism in the form of visuals but its a much tighter plot with better visual gags and better characters.

Perhaps my favorite visual gag in any movie: a flag falls off the back of a passing truck.

There's a wonderfully loose mixture of fantasy and contemporary Iranian reality, as well as some great visual gags.

Aside from the outrageous stunts and a few visual gags done just to feed into their unnecessary 3D gimmick, nothing new was introduced.

And it's a fine film, with good writing, funny visual gags, and a surprisingly heart - warming story about trying to find your place in a large scary world.

What is here for fans though are small visual gags, I suppose.

Of course there are other visual gags such as a take - off ramp that bring the the whole scene together.

Also, one of the movie's best - known visual gags simply gets lost - that of «monkey see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil».

It's one of the few moments in which the character feels real again, and it works perfectly as both characterization and an unexpected visual gag.

Visual gags come out of left field and, with the exception of one or two bits, serve as highlights for the film.

There are even a good amount of successful visual gags.

WHY: For a while, it seemed like everything that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller touched turned to gold, adapting challenging source material into successful comedies with a flair for visual gags.

Rita's pants, displaying the pattern of the British flag, are merely one of many visual gags in the film.

Since duplicating Buster would depend on visual gags more than acrobatics, Keaton could make the film while his ankle continued to heal.

The facial expressions are rib - tickingly brilliant as ever, and there are tons of visual gags from Mr. Fantastic transforming into a teapot to the Sandman becoming a sandcastle.

There are times when Young - goon's fellow patients are little more than punch lines (they often serve as visual gags in the background).

Every scene is riddled with more visual gags than there is time to ingest — one character sports a Blue Peter badge in his hat; posters in London advertise «street urchin throwing contests»; the Swiss coat of arms has a giant corkscrew sticking out of it.

Angela Rayner managed a good visual gag involving the way she wore her headphones but sill looked less than convinced.

There's a silly old visual gag about imitation where someone with a ridiculous walk tells the people following to «Walk this way,» and they match his specific gait completely.

Lively humor and fun visual gags belie the heart and care that clearly went into the story: Nimona is flawed and sometimes frightened, a truly human hero with a great story to tell.

And there simply isn't enough rapid - fire comedy to spackle the cracks, perhaps because DreamWorks animators also have been tasked with providing visual gags for half a dozen TV commercials.

Improvements to combat and a raft of new visual gags don't make up for Shadow Warrior 2's flaccid story and aimless levels.

If there is a downside, it's from the aforementioned similarity to Nightmare Before Christmas, from the look of the characters to the manner in which it is presented — visual gags mixed with musical numbers.

Armed with nothing like innovation or intelligence at the script level, Kim lards The Last Stand with several inspired visual gags that culminate in a chase through a cornfield and one frozen, bird's - eye shot that gifts the film with a kind of wit it doesn't deserve.

The characters move in a jerky, awkward manner, and little visual gags abound (when Wyldstyle is introduced, her «hair» blows in the breeze by rotating back and forth as one molded object).

It was short, sweet and full of quick little visual gags, definitely the kind of thing that will remain rewarding with multiple viewings.

It's a familiar story line with punched up dialogue (as well as a pair of killer visual gags), delivered by comedy masters.

This first film establishes the Muppets» bag of tricks, providing running puns and creative visual gags while frequently shattering the fourth wall.

No sooner had the king and queen of Insta - hip - hop announced the birth of an heir than visual gags about the baby's name flooded in.

«Shaun of the Dead» is an incredibly funny movie but its many visual gags play in direct service to the propulsion of the narrative.

Foxx riding to a Tennessee plantation in full Little Lord Fauntleroy regalia ranks among Tarantino's strongest visual gags.

Banal snarks and visual gags sometimes barge in to little positive effect, but the jokes never blur or dilute the interpersonal tension.

McCarey utilizes several visual gags — a dog is a great deliverer of delayed gags — and solid camera tricks — watch the elevator scene — and it is all in order to trim the fat and cut to the chase in this screwball comedy of divorce.

Spastic pratfalls, silly visual gags, a few gross - out moments to please the kids.

The film certainly presents challenging themes, but the challenges are not terribly substantial, in part because the scenes that bring up or even portray the obstacles Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) faces as a woman in a man's world tend to be shown as visual gags instead of something akin to drama.

The bright and breezy start to Shrek 3 features an array of brilliantly set up and executed visual gags, steamrollering even the most cynical viewer into laughter.

It's also got great knockabout visual gags, mercifully little cutey - poo sentiment, and reasonable songs.

Its a bit too silly in places with dumb lines, lame visual gags and apart from a great Hydra sequence the film is visually kinda average.

Decent visual gags, witty dialogue («I'm so tired of running rampant in the streets»), a droll Marlon Brando impersonation and at no point does this jolly tale flag.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein's true directorial talents lie in their ability to pull off simple visual gags with aplomb, as in a scene in which Ryan attempts to offer someone a paltry $ 17 bribe by slowly sliding the bills, one by one, across a table.

I can see why people might enjoy bits of it like Quaid's cheesy robotic performance and the minor visual gags dotted throughout, but end of the day this really feels like its trying to achieve what «The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai» achieved.

The film tosses about 200 jokes and visual gags at the screen, and your mileage may vary as to how entertaining you find them.

(Oddly, one joke that is given time to breathe — and one of the film's few visual gags — is the bit featured in the trailer where Barinholz gets Poehler's music box stuck up his butt; it works better in the movie than in the trailer, but it's still a juvenile choice for a centerpiece.)

Even when Sandler is letting a scene fall apart with unfunny jokes, Turturro successfully brings it back to life with an unflinching line reading and a devotion to perfect visual gags.

Fans of «Garden State» will also notice that although Braff hasn't matured much as a filmmaker — he stills relies on indie rock - fueled montages and eccentric visual gags — «Wish I Was Here» is a more grown - up movie thematically, exploring a range of topics like morality, sacrifice, family and fatherhood.

The score is rather bland and Saturday morning cartoonish, matching the sometimes tiring visual gag sequences.

It's at this point that the film diverts off course from silly puns and whimsical visual gags to something unexpected and not a little strange.