Sentences with phrase «with pratfalls»

One minute, there is a scene filled with pratfalls and physical gags.

Those segments are then tied together by a story about a precocious young girl who, by the way, has an animal sidekick and that is filled with pratfalls, innocently mischievous humor, and a couple of jokes about how «icky» kissing is.

Lost in Paris returns slapstick and sight gags, now the fodder or annual Shrek imitators, back to the world of art, with the pratfalling misadventures of two caricatured romantics playing out like a musical.

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... With apologies to President Clinton, the biggest pratfall in Florida last week belonged to Heat forward Jamal Mashburn, who missed all 10 of his shots in an 82 - 76 loss to Charlotte....

The day that Max Patkin stops kissing base runners or crawling through catchers» legs or covering himself with dirt or getting the heave - hohoho from umpires, chances are that's the day he takes the Big Pratfall.

It comes with perils and pratfalls and whatever else.

The comedy is as you have come to expect from Lester with these films, both silly pratfalls wise and the various subtle little dubbed gags.

Gratuitous sex, pratfalls, and goofy violence come with the territory in this over-the-top guys» comedy.

But they put romance on the back burner while focusing on race and ethnicity as Leonardo bonds with his fellow Mexicans on a pool - building job, even as they initially mock his smooth «lady hands» and allow him to pratfall through his first day.

In his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter, Silberling also, to a certain extent, trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls: to the point where his heartfelt drama comes perilously close to tasteless comedy.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

The story takes a couple of sharp turns, ultimately revealing that it isn't a romantic comedy after all, but a shambling drama with a few mildly amusing pratfalls.

The script recycles Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, with six guests invited by a mysterious host to spend the night in a creepy mansion, but instead of parodying the material Lynn simply surrounds it with extraneous pratfalls and wisecracks.

With the exception of a second - act revelation that pushes the story in an interesting direction, «Table 19» is a largely ineffective Sundance wannabe that's unable to balance its pratfalls and dick jokes with the more serious momeWith the exception of a second - act revelation that pushes the story in an interesting direction, «Table 19» is a largely ineffective Sundance wannabe that's unable to balance its pratfalls and dick jokes with the more serious momewith the more serious moments.

Like all films with traces of Zucker, there's a: plenty of pratfalls, and b: Leslie Nielsen.

The interconnectedness of all things and the nature of destiny are tough pitches for comedy — philosophy and pratfalls often don't mix especially well — but as Jeff deals with his odyssey for wood glue and Sharon is confronted by a secret admirer and Pat discovers Linda has things she wants too, the movie becomes a philosophical comedy.

The new remake — produced by Raimi and directed by Fede Alvarez from a script he wrote with Diablo Cody — arrives minus the camp humor and ghastly pratfalls.

It is with The Naked Gun that Nielsen fully displays his comic gifts, a tour - de-force of deadpan, face - pulling, and pratfall.

Yes, this movie is just as silly as it looks, with Jim Carrey pratfalling all over the screen alongside a bunch of adorable (sometimes animated) critters.

Narratively, Game Night is a fairly loose spoof, with screenwriter Mark Perez (Accepted, The Country Bears) adhering closer to the rules of the dubious, aforementioned civilians - in - trouble subgenre, meaning that we get lots of scenes of Bateman, McAdams, and company pratfalling in and out of sticky situations.

by Walter Chaw Although it closes with thirty minutes of pratfalls and screaming, Big Fat Liar begins its life as a fun revenge fantasy that makes the interesting choice of never being about greed, but rather truth.

Yet, Rogen and Goldberg avoid all the major pratfalls of first - time comedy filmmakers, combining the loose, Apatow - inspired interactions with impressive visual set pieces that create a sense of scope and escalation.

Mindless pratfalls, romantic misunderstandings and French people with British accents fill the screen, until 92 minutes have passed and it's time to validate your parking.

This way he keeps the viewer — and possibly the director — genuinely off balance, shimmying up against a couple of massage parlor cuties (he's clobbered by a baseball bat, departing consciousness with a lovely goofball pratfall), sussing out Martin Short's smarmy Dr. Blatnoyd (letting Short run circles around the infield, the receptionist, and a nice pile of medical - grade cocaine), or playing telephone straight man to Jeannie Berlin's Aunt Reet, a Catskills gargoyle with killer timing: «Maybe you're better off with the Nazis.»

Playing a near - sighted klutz who refuses to wear her glasses (because she fears no man will find her attractive with them), Monroe allows herself to take a few pratfalls, showing her as relatable and sympathetic.

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.

No, this 1983 Hollywood comedy doesn't begin with Chevy, Eddie or Bill Murray making a pratfall accompanied to their star billing, but rather the words: «Jerry... Who Else?».

Zodiac: Sublimely methodical and equally eerie, David Fincher's meditative thriller about the allure and pratfalls of obsession is itself obsessed, with information, just before our era of informa..

Even baseball fans will be sorely disappointed in how the game is depicted, with almost no adherence to any known rules (the Benchwarmers only field three players), while the games themselves have no real rooting interest, concocted merely to show more pratfalls, players getting injured, and bats flying out of the park into vehicles or people.

But these moments of tension alternate uneasily with broad puns and pratfalls.

So if you have a problem with a slapsticky pratfall involving scads of semen, followed by a wildly inappropriate joke about sickle cell anemia, followed by a crass Kardashian reference (and it's a loooong way to go for that punchline), then you should probably look elsewhere.

Completely overrun by pratfalls, slapstick, and mean - spiritedness, Christmas with the Kranks never even comes close to being a satire on the falseness of the spirit of Christmas, especially when it tries to be all warm and fuzzy as it nears the end.

A heavily trailed scene involving a lavatory door, a dropped cigarette and a fumbled gun has deadpan, Keatonesque charm, with Gosling demonstrating a hitherto untapped talent for perfectly timed pratfalls.

Even Hamburg's non-scatological humor is uninspired, faux - Farrelly attempts at would - be outrageousness: broad sight (pun intended) gags with Polly's blind ferret; Reuben's ex-child star friend's (Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose pratfall of an entrance ominously foretells of the depths to which he's required to sink) desperate «comeback» bid in a community theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Despite all my aforementioned praising of this show, it exhibits the same pratfalls that many TV shows have with displaying women as «objects of male desire» as Laura Mulvey described in her famous essay «Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.»

The winning adaptation of the best - selling novel is a challenging but rewarding watch; one that confidently avoids the pratfalls of drama with a capital - D.

Meloni infuses Sax with a physicality that veers from explosively lethal to slapstick pratfalls, making it a great pairing with Oswalt's voicework.

Acker follows suit a few scenes later, with fewer pratfalls, but Denisof is engaged in a film - long campaign to earn laughs via tweaked line readings and vain poses.

Vicarious Visions, who developed the original Skylanders game on 3DS, handled the port, and with the exception of a few logistical pratfalls, it's the best version of the game.

This new take on the material reverses the genders of the leads, but mostly tells the same story — with more pratfalls.

Along with the brilliant pratfalls of Lefou (Jordan Aragon) they are the pair of comic relief artists that wins over the audience.

Zodiac: Sublimely methodical and equally eerie, David Fincher's meditative thriller about the allure and pratfalls of obsession is itself obsessed, with information, just before our era of information overload.

No doubt some of this was improvised, but the script, by Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, is also efficient and light, revelling in its broad comedy, complete with bathroom humor and pratfalls.

The conversation unfolds on levels that are excellent for laypeople outside publishing to hear but fully viable for us bookish folks who follow the predictions and pratfalls of the digital dynamic with excruciating, incremental care.

And for my part, this little blog chronicles my travels through 70 countries and 6 continents (pratfalls and all) with a combination of anecdotes and colourful photos.

Four Door Lemon is collaborating closely with Hello Games and Sony to ensure that the long awaited handheld editions offer the full and unabridged Joe Danger experience, with all the manic motorbike mayhem, painful pratfalls and stupendous stunts that fans will expect, along with a few fresh surprises.

Pleasingly, The Little Acre avoids the pratfall of a superfluous inventory, endowing the trek with just enough puzzle - solving items.

«Review: Artists fuse funny - haha with funny - odd and existential angst in ACAC's «Pratfall Tramps,»» ArtsATL.com, March 26

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Khari Johnson's review at VentureBeat focuses on the perks and pratfalls of the Pixel Buds featuring Google Assistant and the new Translate feature, but noted that the latter isn't much better than what you get with Google's language services on other platforms.