Sentences with phrase «with broad slapstick»

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Too much of the breezy humor that made the book a delight is stripped away, replaced with predictable jokes and broad slapstick, sitcom - quality encounters with women and bears and a pushy, grating sentimentality.

As the plot is thin, there's a lot of filler with side characters, including Octavius (Coogan, Philomena) and Jedediah (Wilson, The Grand Budapest Hotel) falling through an air vent and ending up in a replica of ancient Pompeii, Lancelot (STevens, The Guest) crashing a West End stage production of «Camelot» starring Hugh Jackman, and lots of not - too - funny broad slapstick involving Larry trying to corral an energetic caveman he's named Laaa who happens to be his spitting image.

A broad slapstick gag involving a mishap with Brad steering Dusty's motorcycle is almost surreal in its over-the-top absurdity that one can't help but cackle.

Yet it also positions itself as a family movie through and through, with its broad narrative and simplistic slapstick.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

One of Sturges's most clever and beloved romantic comedies, The Lady Eve balances broad slapstick and sophisticated sexiness with perfect grace.

Primarily an attack on trade unions and the NHS, the film combines broad, victim - hating comedy with brightly - lit slapstick gore.

But it's much more fizzy and action - packed than its successor, rife with slapstick comedy and some very broad, uncomfortable racial humor centered on the exchange - student character of Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe).

It also gives its cast a lot to play with in scenes that feature both broad slapstick and much more serious drama.

I know this is a slapstick farce, with aspirations to follow in the broad comedy tradition of a «National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation» or even the first «Home Alone.»