Sentences with phrase «visual sight gags»

The humor in the film starts strong with a great deal of visual sight gags such as swastika - shaped moon bases and Hindenburg - like spaceships — each of these should make even the harshest critic smile.

A handful of clever Duck Soup allusions and a smattering of solid visual sight gags aside (most of those unsurprisingly involving the Minions), I still can't say there's a ton additional I found exciting.

Up until her joining the narrative the film had been funny, if a touch icy, happy to tell a story that shouts from the rafters that our environment is doomed while also making us laugh with visual sight gags such as a miniaturized Laura Dern in a bubble bath.

Not exact matches

The duo of Mike and Sully are among some of Pixar's most beloved creations and, amid the clever sight gags and stunning visuals, the film also tugs at the heartstrings quite a bit.

It's more the popcorn thriller than I expected but with a strong cast and beautifully subdued visuals, its clichéd stunts and endless sight gags seem to work well.

The color scheme is more in line with the neon nightscapes of something like Edward Hopper's «Nighthawks,» but director Mike Gabriel, working off an idea from the late Disney animator Joe Grant, does an excellent job of balancing the visual palette with a bevy of mordant sight gags.

Director Ivan Reitman's wacky comedic sensibility ignites the hilarity of the situation, particularly with a swell of nifty sight gags and visual slants on the trappings of power.

The film's aspect ratio changes throughout for no discernible reason; an early scene in which Luisaidh witnesses a neighbour committing suicide is quickly forgotten; and the frequent never - explained sight of a naked man in another neighbour's garden just seems like the kind of quirky visual gag you'd find in a Richard Curtis movie.

In many ways, the filmmakers have bravely crafted the kind of hysterically uplifting, comically inspired marvel Minions by all accounts could have been, fearlessly composing a feature - length opus for kids devoid of dialogue reliant upon visuals, sight gags and musical cues to get the job done.

Even the cutesy visual gags become stronger once Dean decamps for Hollywood — the sight of Dean tugging his roller suitcase through the sands of a Santa Monica beach is an incisively succinct metaphor for the yoke of depression.

A master of stunts, sight gags, and visual effects, Keaton was perhaps the most sophisticated silent filmmaker when it came to truly understanding and exploiting cinematic space — the magical Méliès, maybe, to Chaplin's more grounded Lumière.

doesn't lack for visual imagination, or inspired sight gags.

His movies have some fantastic sight gags, for starters, but the director thinks audiences would applaud Anchorman for its visual beauty, not only the laughs:

The pixel art world of Party Hard is visual smorgasbord of dark humor and sight gags, while the music is a high energy blend of 80's style synthpop.

His work's visual terseness, along with its frequently droll content, can come off as a dead - pan sight gag.