Sentences with phrase «with clever premises»

The brothers were always great with coming up with clever premises, such as a man with Schizophrenia, and find the humor in it.

Prodigy is a thoughtful film that doesn't quite do enough with its clever premise.

Like its predecessor, the»90s version wins you over with a clever premise, compelling characters, and easy - to - embrace comedic tone.

In the end, it's difficult to say what's more troubling — that the film doesn't do enough with its clever premise, or that it doesn't seem to care — but one thing is certain: «The Cobbler» is McCarthy's worst movie to date, and by a country mile.

The movie starts out with a clever premise, but Gervais's agenda of disproving religion becomes such a theme of the movie that it gets to be a huge distraction.

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We are all doom so why not take the cleverness of the premise one step further by being clever with their romance.

And happily for those of us who enjoy the FD series» grotesquely clever premise beyond reason, unfortunate folks still refuse to pay attention, with inventively dire consequences.

A neat premise brought by a solid cast with a couple clever quirks, that is WOEFULLY underdeveloped.

It's an original and rather clever premise, but first - time director Chris Koch doesn't do anything with it.

This latest adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's pulp character hinges on a clever premise with a built - in conflict, mainly the early days of King Leopold II... Continue reading →

With a very clever premise and deceptively simplistic gameplay, you'll want to stare into this microscope until you unravel every single cellular mystery.

I'll admit that it's a clever premise with a lot of promise.

This comedy has a clever premise with potential and a few funny moments, but is plagued by a number of problems.

With supporting player Murphy overshadowing poor performances from Timberlake and his wide - eyed romantic interest Seyfried, In Time is an over-extended mess that makes a mockery of a clever premise.

This hit horror doesn't have the same political resonance, but it makes the most of a fiendishly clever premise: aliens with super-sensitive hearing, who are triggered by the slightest noise.

With Split, director / writer M. Night Shyamalan concocts a clever premise and delivers one of the most suspenseful thrillers this decade.

While it is derivative at its core, the jokes and sight gags are often clever, and the writers use our familiarity with the subject matter to their advantage, applying the superhero angle to solutions for most teen problems, making a stale premise fresh with well - developed flair.

He's perfectly at home in the 50's melodrama trappings, and does some fiendishly clever things with the premise (including a wonderful dream sequence that has to be seen to be believed).

Stacey Menear's screenplay doesn't manage to sustain its clever premise, with the final act featuring a banal and formulaic revelation that unfortunately takes what had been a spooky haunted house tale into familiar slasher movie territory.

The Coen Brothers have mined that rich premise to make an impishly smart film about the stupidity rampant in people who think they are being clever, and they are clever enough themselves to accomplish it with little that could be considered hyperbole.

«This directing debut for co-writers Rogen and Evan Goldberg offsets its slightly smug premise with a clever sense of self - parody and near - cataclysmic levels of vulgarity,» Chang wrote.

The writing style was enjoyable, the premise was super intriguing, and although I figured out the quite clever twist with the Borden twins (rather heavily hinted at by Andrew's spooky twin - in - his - mind thing from the beginning), I really enjoyed 90 %

The writing style was enjoyable, the premise was super intriguing, and although I figured out the quite clever twist with the Borden twins (rather heavily hinted at by Andrew's spooky twin - in - his - mind thing from the beginning), I really enjoyed 90 % of the plot.

Coach has clever premises and attention - grabbing plot hooks, with themes that resonate with readers.

Most of the material in these courses begins with the false premise that indexing results in mediocre performance and then explains in effusive detail how portfolio managers can do better by making tactical moves, clever trades, shorting stocks, using derivatives and a host of other exotic techniques, many of which have long fallen out of use.

Starbreeze did an admirable job with Syndicate's cyberpunk premise, creating an engrossing liner shooter with some clever sandbox elements, but rather sadly it just failed to inspire gamers at large.

The premise of the game is super clever: this is a Mario game with no jumping.

Whilst it's a clever idea that works well with the premise of the game though, it doesn't go a long way in changing up much else from a gameplay perspective.