Sentences with phrase «when parody»

When a parody of a famous brand is put out on the market, the big companies behind those brands have often been successful in using trademark law to shut the parody down.

Two American icons met Wednesday when parody songmaster Weird Al Yankovic helped to compose the New York Times crossword puzzle — and made it delightfully cheesy.

Verdict: 3 Stars Most of us love a good parody as much as the next person, but when the parody is making fun of two mainstays of popular reading at the same time the result is just fictional gold.

Most of us love a good parody as much as the next person, but when the parody is making fun of two mainstays of popular reading at the same time the result is just fictional gold.

YouTube says it will no longer blindly follow DMCA claims and instead will defend fair use of music, movie and TV clips when parodied or critiqued, and has warned it will go to court if necessary.

Not exact matches

But ABC's Kimmel — Letterman's heir as the laid - back ironist of late - night — has weighed in with some surprisingly strong political bits, most notably a parody of The Producers last February in which Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are gobsmacked when their «sure loser» candidate Trump turns into the front runner.

Back when DogeCoin (DOGE) was invented, it was basically a parody of the hundreds of other cryptocurrencies which were already into existence.

He has begun to try to write against type and found little success when he plowed familiar ground: The dreadful Yellow Dog, which appeared in 2003, reads like a parody of a 1980s Amis novel.

But when the gospel challenges and corrects the evils of this world, as we must do also, it does not use harsh rhetoric and name - calling, but parody and humor.

This kind of thought, which at its worst was found in the parody popularized decades ago that «there'll be pie in the sky, when you die» as a compensation for injustice today, is hardly attractive to men and women who insist that justice is to be done now.

But it is shameful when lack of imagination, failure of insight, and narrowness of mind produce such a parody of what might well be the most glorious of human occasions of meeting: the worship of God the «altogether lovely» (as an old phrase has it) and the altogether loving One.

While being linked to the Mississippi State job earlier this coaching cycle, a chef with the same name got swept up in a social media commotion set off by a parody account, showing that even when the SEC does a normal hire, it can turn weird.

The joke went on long enough that when Arsenal did splash club - record money on French striker Alexandre Lacazette, the club parodied the old refrain with the hashtag #LacaNewSigning.

For example, when Whidden and her staff learned that USDA commodity turkeys wouldn't arrive on time for the school's Thanksgiving celebration, instead of panicking they created a song parody video explaining the situation.

In an era when union heads usually look to downplay their personal worth, Seabrook flaunted flashy suits and shoes and smoked high - end cigars like some Hollywood parody of a labor boss.

The problem refers to the dilemma faced by courts and schools when a student's online bullying speech contains «elements of parody cloaked in violence,» Holden writes.

When I first heard the radio ad for Cougarlife.com I thought it was a joke, a parody of other ads for online dating services.

We appreciate that Ms. Lohan recognizes eHarmony is the company that single people turn to when they are serious about finding a great long - term relationship... Her parody of our advertising gave us a good laugh

seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the cliched absurdity of the goings on.

When Jack makes contact with a mysterious hitwoman (Thekla Reuten) for whom he will custom - build a high - velocity rifle, their side - of - the - mouth conversation at a cafe table sounds like a parody of international assassins» code.

This starts a long - term relationship between the pair that will ultimately lead them to the film's primary case, a suit pursued by Reverend Jerry Falwell (Richard Paul) when he feels defamed by an ad parody in Hustler.

In 2002, Oedekerk found himself in the leading role of a feature film again when he cast himself in a pet project, a parody of low - budget martial arts films entitled Kung Pow!

The Matrix has become such a touchstone of American pop culture - referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)- that it's hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.

These aren't average actors — Dornan, like Chris Hemsworth, knows funny (see his parody with James Corden); Johnson can be heartrending when her character is crafted like a human being (see «Black Mass»).

The two films have in common a structural formlessness which, in Sarah Marshall's case, felt freewheeling and fun: When the boy - gets - girl plot would suddenly pause for a music - video parody or a number from a puppet musical, it was all part of the movie's loosey - goosey charm.

The overarching parody of the series becomes repetitive when an already implausible plot literally doubles down on the absurd.

Now, I'm aware that this is parody, and I'm all for the more offensive forms of parody — a lot of the time it's the only honest way to get a point across — but when the filmmakers themselves become fixated on it, then it doesn't play right at all.

«I'm sorry, i's just, um, you look nothing like your profile picture,» Sally says when she meets her Tinder date in the parody sketch.

Late last year, the release of The Interview came into question when North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong Un was being parodied in the movie, threatened to attack any cinemas showing the stoner comedy.

It delivers some amusement when Black and Cera step into their signature personas, which they do enough to almost give the film a feeling of self - parody.

When one thinks of parody, one might immediately think of blitzkrieg spoofs like the Mel Brooks movie satires (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, Spaceballs, etc.) or the 1980 airline - disaster - movie takedown Airplane!

franchise only speaks to their impact as disposable entertainment: a genre is ready for parody when it does not take itself too seriously, and I doubt the Zucker or Wayans brothers would dare make a spoof of «Deepwater Horizon» and its ilk.

The only times the comic was ever good was when there was a writer who knew that Hulk was inherently a one - trick character, and concentrated on the supporting characters for the interesting storylines, or made it a semi-comedic parody.

The hefty package was shown off in a 90s - style parody advertisement when pre-orders launched in North America last month.

Best Night Ever (R for profanity, graphic nudity, drug use, crude humor and pervasive profanity) Parody of the road trip genre about a bride - to - be (Desiree Hall) who gets more than she bargained for when she ventures to Vegas with her bridesmaids for a bawdy bachelorette party.

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, from a screenplay by Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy screenwriter Peter Straughan and Jon Ronson, Frank is at its best when it finds funny variations on parodying the difficulties of the creative process.

Hey, remember a few months ago when it was announced that a MacGyver movie was in the works, and everyone was making MacGruber jokes and saying how much they'd rather see a movie based on the Saturday Night Live parody instead?

So what happened when our writer confessed to being the creator of a parody Twitter account that turned him into a tween - talking cat - lover?

When Toback concentrates on the Jericho character, the film comes alive; but when the weight shifts to the gambling - underworld connection, it falls into cliche - ridden parWhen Toback concentrates on the Jericho character, the film comes alive; but when the weight shifts to the gambling - underworld connection, it falls into cliche - ridden parwhen the weight shifts to the gambling - underworld connection, it falls into cliche - ridden parody.

We get a hint of religious parody when after a convenience store is devastated, two of its patrons rise to heaven.

Also, something I found when playing this game is the fact that, in parodying other games, Saints Rows IV is constantly highlighting itself as a flawed game.

When: January 11th Why: Unless you're a fan of the «Scary Movie» franchise, which Marlon Wayans helped launch over a decade ago, it's hard to imagine you'll have any sort of interest in his new horror comedy, which parodies found footage films like «Paranormal Activity» and «The Devil Inside.»

There are two moments in the film that did make me laugh out loud: the first is when Jonah Hill, trying to fit in at a poetry slam, does a very funny parody of a bad live - mic poem; the second is in the final credits, when the filmmakers take the meta - notion of the film as a sequel about sequels to such an extreme that the idea became funny again.

The plot exists nearly as a parody of rarefied 1970s - era art films about troubled, privileged white people: Catherine (Elisabeth Moss), the daughter of a legendary artist, retreats with Virginia (Katherine Waterston) up to the latter's remote family cabin somewhere in upstate New York when her boyfriend leaves her in the wake of her father's death.

By the end of the film, we see both characters as gods, both as monsters, and the great talent of Bill Condon is in knowing when to push the esthetic toward humorous self - parody and when to bend it toward tragedy.

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).

Plunked down in his very own third - person action game, Deadpool acts as a sort - of - parody of third - person action games, with its hero regularly commenting on various video game tropes, his displeasure with High Moon's script, and even you, the player, when you aren't performing to his expectations.

Dandy Mott might be a parody of this type of affluent sociopath but there's something much more terrifying to du Pont's long silences and labored breathing, especially when it holds up against archival footage of the man himself.

One wonders which is worse: the bored eye rolls earned by Sestero or the stifled giggles that Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) receives when he goes next, throwing himself about the mock stage as he screams «STELLLLLLLA,» a bad parody of Marlon Brando brought to life.

One can not doubt Clooney's belief in Hollywood's innate goodness compared with the rest of America, given his Oscar acceptance speech — memorably parodied as a cloud of «smug» by the lads at South Park — during which he praised Hollywood for giving Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1940 «when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters» at a ceremony in which she was forced to sit at the rear of a Los Angeles nightclub, separated from her Gone with the Wind colleagues, because the hotel in which the ceremony took place was segregated.