Sentences with phrase «wacky comedy»

Audiences weren't ready for Steve Martin in anything but wacky comedies in the»80s and probably weren't exactly primed for a subversive musical drama that is caked in cynical darkness, either.

There are really so many great gags and sequences in this that any fan of wacky comedies such as Airplane, Spaceballs, and Monty Python should get some real enjoyment out of this one.

There are plenty of of fluffy anime moments too — like your dough - punching neighbor who offers up a home cooked meal every time Itō returns to her apartment — but it never veers into wacky comedy.

James Gunn navigates wacky comedy, dazzling action and real, heartfelt moments.

Doug Liman's American Made largely eschews any sense of verisimilitude in favor of wacky comedy bits.

Though initially sold as The Hangover set in Afghanistan, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is not an outright wacky comedy, but instead tells a much more subtle, dramatic story.

Then again, how can I be mad at Julia Louis - Dreyfus and Veep's umpteenth nominations, when the show really is still good — it's not like we're talking about Two and A Half Men — and you've also been wise enough to nominate Issa Rae in the same category... and Gina Rodriguez and Rachel Bloom don't cancel each other out, even though they're both in CW Wacky comedies?

It's a totally wacky comedy, but it's also becoming increasingly prescient - especially with a buffoon as idiotic as Camacho in the running for President.

Here's the set - up: «In a story that's part William Gibson - style cyberthriller, part wacky comedy, the -LSB-...]

It's the lying and deception that can destroy trust in these situations more than almost anything else, and the second episode even makes it a point to try and get that across through slapstick humor, until it ditches that initial argument altogether and starts becoming a wacky comedy in full with all of the usual trappings.

Max (Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) are a middle - class married couple who've settled into the kind of comfortable groove that usually is the catalyst for a wacky comedy.

Too smart for the «wacky comedy» box and too outrageously playful to sit alongside standard action fare, Killing Gunther is nevertheless destined to find an audience who will watch it again and again.

Danny and Wheeler find themselves ordered into community service to avoid jail and the service, for reasons that only make sense in the context of a wacky comedy, is with an outfit that pairs kids in need of guidance with responsible adults to mentor them.

Also returning is the wacky comedy team of scientists Geiszler and Gottlieb (played, respectively, by Charlie Day and Burn Gorman, whose name would also work pretty well for one of those giant robots, if you think about it — «BURN GORMAN IS GO FOR LAUNCH!»).

I've never been a huge fan of Carrey's wacky comedies.

So many of our most interesting creative voices have dealt with mental illness (certainly a subject in open discussion right now with the recent passing of Robin Williams), and, while Lenny Abrahamson's «Frank» has been billed as a wacky comedy about a guy with a fake head (which it partially is), it's also a dissection of this intersection, driven by a remarkably physical performance by Michael Fassbender.

Mis - Fits is the handiwork of novelist / playwright / documentation LD Napier (though the script isn't adapted from any of her previous work) and she's also snatching the chance to direct what producer Doug Claybourne tells the Hollywood Reporter is «a wacky comedy in the tone of Harold and Maude.»

While the straight face tone is polar opposite to the wacky comedies that have been a studio staple dating back to The Shaggy Dog, the dramas try not to turn off young audiences and are decidely free of genuinely offensive material.

Dramas also are posed with an additional challenge in that they can not wrap up as neatly as either the wacky comedies, with their climactic moral.

From his start at Disney, to his background in baseball, his wacky comedies, insane list of cult classics, and current resurgence, it feels like there's nothing he can't do.

The balance of serious drama and wacky comedy is possible, but Estes has serious difficultly pulling it off.

Based on the life of disgraced a polka sensation, Jacki Weaver, Jason Schwartzman and Jenny Slate round out a wacky comedy that's full of heart

Gunpowder & Sky has revealed the first red band trailer for a wacky comedy titled The Little Hours, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

«Price Check ``: «While Parker [Posey] can still throw those awesome sassy punchlines (and she sure does here), the film relies heavily on her wacky comedy, which ultimately doesn't give the story and other characters much room to please.

In the 1970s, young Kurt Russell was a certified Disney star and one of the centerpieces of the studio's «wacky comedies» genre.

Oedekirk employs the «kitchen sink» approach in this wacky comedy, and there's definitely more miss than hit in this comedy full of ridiculously childish sight gags and goofiness.

An RPG taking place in the bizarre Beanbean Kingdom, it featured the titular brothers teaming up to take down a new villain all while delving into some wacky comedy.