Sentences with phrase «with sight gags»

Yet the horror mixes with sight gags, like outsize hands for Sylvia Palacios Whitman and TV clowns for Ralston Farina — and the performers seek comfort in letting it all hang out.

The film is replete with sight gags (the best being the hospital «J» Ward) and verbal interplay between the Narrator and characters, but the actual number of times these gags are funny falls as the movie progresses.

The frame is invariably filled with sight gags, puns and playful little details, in an Asterix / Flintstones vein.

Although filled with sight gags and great performances, «Vice» is the sort of movie that requires two hours of uninterrupted attention; maybe four to allow a second watch.

Even if you don't like the 40 - year - old's humour, and many don't, you can at least appreciate its gleefully juvenile craft — scenes chockablock with sight gags, rapid - fire cutaways to hilariously absurd punchlines, painfully awkward pauses that last so long you eventually laugh, all of it wrapped in an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture that has made him a bro deity among the coveted 18 - to 34 - year - old male demographic.

Replete with sight gags and punchlines that, by comparison to today's standards, feel sophisticated and novel, Planes is of course capped off with a happy and wholly satisfying ending that epitomizes the feel - good spirit of the holiday season.

I suspect director Paul King studied some silent - movie comedians for these sequences, because they're peppered with sight gags and split - second timing.

Fey and Carlock pushed their irreverent and reflexive comedy to the max, creating episodes that played by like super-brainy live - action Mad strips, musical with speed banter and crammed with sight gags.

This is a movie where heartfelt realizations about bullying live in close proximity with sight gags about penises being shoved through glory holes.

Here, he lightens the horror with sight gags and a comical look at the generational gap.

Instead, the film shifts to a nice but awkward breakfast, filled with sight gags (how the Queen's aids, played by Rebecca Hall and Rafe Spall, set up a place for the giant to eat), uncomfortable pauses, and resolving with an entire room enjoying — and immediately regretting — a drink of BFG's favorite, fizzy beverage (For a hint as to how that decision goes, the carbonated bubbles go downward).

For a large portion of the film, it's a broad comedy with sight gags, gross out moments (an entire sequence dedicated to vomiting) and over the top characterizations.

What Chase did have was Hughes» tightly written script, peppered with sight gags and such a deep arsenal of throwaway lines that new ones emerge with every viewing («Don't forget the rubber sheets and the gerbils.»)

At only 84 minutes, it never bogs down with needless seriousness or scenes of emotional schmaltz, always seeking to keep audiences smiling with sight gags, allusions that are actually clever, and choice bits of music that accentuates the action instead of just being shoehorned in to hock soundtracks.

The pace never lets up, and every time there's the slight chance of things getting a bit (ahem) po - faced (sorry), any hint of pomposity is deflated with a sight gag or some sharp dialogue.

Not exact matches

We thought we knew what this show was, with its drug - cooking high jinks and tighty - whitey sight gags, but we were wrong.

When I was 8 weeks pregnant with our second child, for example, we traveled to a beachside wedding in Southern California, and the very sight of the ocean — all those rolling, fish - filled waves — made me gag.

The script leans heavily on pop culture references — a plague of just about every recent comedy — but it isn't entirely lazy, with successful sight gags and one painfully realistic failed round of Celebrity.

In terms of the hilarious hijinks that ensue, Annie uses what she's only heard in movies to get some bad guys to the ground with a gun she doesn't think is real and later cares for a bullet wound with improvised drug - store items; Max makes a mess of a white dog and a shrine of photos inside a neighbor's home; and during the climactic showdown on an airplane tarmac, there is a very funny sight gag involving a very slow conveyor belt.

Except for a few individual lines and sight gags, a brilliantly over-the-top action - comedy sequence near the midsection, and some characteristically sharp performances (including the one by Brolin, who imbues what might've otherwise been a granite - jawed killer meathead with recognizable humanity) there's not much to fondly recall here.

The skeleton characters allow animators to get creative with classic cartoon sight gags we rarely get in Pixar's work.

Hey, if the sight of two beautiful, virile young women who are, like all beautiful, virile young women everywhere, are clearly gagging for it with absolutely anyone, including sad old gits, gets you upset then fuck off, cos we here at AICN are not elitist, pompous dickwads like you must be.

The situation allows a broad canvas for Knotts to react to sight gags with the special brand of eye - popping nervousness that made him a star.

Detective Dee makes its own place somewhere in - between, and the result is a thoroughly enjoyable adventure flick awash with kooky sight gags, some questionable CGI, and a few instances of honest to goodness suspense.

But it's not meant to be examined seriously; this throwaway movie, with its oddball cameos (among them Snoop Dogg, Andy Dick and Democrat pundit James Carville, who must be hard up for a gig these days) and fat - kid sight gags, is only after a laugh.

Not to say young audiences will be completely alienated — it has an accessible story, is just the right amount of scary and is littered with quirky characters and sight gags.

A zany comedy stuffed to the brim with memorable characters, strange plot developments and absurd sight gags, Caddyshack freewheels its way from one silly scene to another, incidentally weaving a timeless tale about «the snobs versus the slobs» in the process.

It is a stupid summer action movie, one with explosions and a premise that makes no sense and the occasional stupid sight gag.

With its array of subtle sight gags and Borscht Belt — style one - liners («We're going to need a bigger boat»), Jaws was funny, but not because it was unserious.

Produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, this combination of satire and slapstick also includes the requisite number of dumb, gross and otherwise icky sight gags, whether in the form of Cena agreeing to a «butt chugging» contest with a bunch of beer - buzzed 17 - year - olds, or some unsettlingly graphic close - ups of male genitalia.

The first film — which Genndy Tartakovsky also directed — was cute and harmless, but this one is even more consistently funny and crammed with inspired sight gags.

Scott's comic energy helps keep the film rolling, and the gangly DJ Qualls gamely serves as a walking sight gag (sexually paired, in longstanding comic tradition, with his opposite: in this case, an obese black woman).

Perhaps most vexing to Max and Annie is that they are forced to go to their cop neighbor Gary (Jesse Plemons) for help; Gary's ex-wife was their game - night friend, but now she's gone and they're stuck with this pill who plays terribly, speaks in a creepy monotone, and seems obsessed with his fluffy white dog, who becomes part of one of the film's many hysterical sight gags.

Directors Letterman, Bibo Bergeron (The Road to El Dorado), and Vicky Jenson (Shrek) are more concerned with making things hip by adding in a soundtrack full of pop and hip - hop stars, references to other movies, and sight gags.

Mann is a class act showing a willingness to debase herself with some embarrassing sight gags.

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.

This being a comedic spin, the movie, with Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum 2, Cheaper By the Dozen 2) directing with the blandness that has come to be his stock in trade, includes a «hilarious» pot - smoking scene, repeated sight gags centered on Fonda's enormous breasts, her grandkid's morning poop sessions and a last - minute gay twist that feels as contrived as the rest of Jonathan Tropper's script (based on his best - selling novel).

Some of the throwaway lines are rather funny, as are several of the sight gags, such as a recurring bit in which the Duke keeps accidentally killing his wife's dog, then replacing it with one that looks nothing like the previous one.

It's formulaic sitcom material that works thanks to Hughes» inventive situations, Dragoti's (The Man with One Red Shoe, Necessary Roughness) ability to merge the comedy with musical cues and sight gags, and a very appealing cast of actors.

There would be nothing wrong with that, of course, but for a good hour or so Payne makes both excellent sight gags and interesting comment on consumerist society.

Up until her joining the narrative the film had been funny, if a touch icy, happy to tell a story that shouts from the rafters that our environment is doomed while also making us laugh with visual sight gags such as a miniaturized Laura Dern in a bubble bath.

It's a comedy with Lilliputian sight gags that treat its science - fiction scenario lightly, at least for the first hour, until life grows darker and darker.

There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.

Although much of the humor and tone of the film is on par with it's original source, the sight gags and puns type humor was done to death by better films like Airplane!

After establishing the high stakes and bleak future of our world, the movie quickly shifts gears into a more comic mode, with the process of downsizing providing an opportunity for materialistic wish fulfillment, an ironic realization that matters of class still exist even in this idealized world, and more than a few sight gags involving the juxtaposition of the normal - sized world with the small one.

Jon Favreau amiably voices the crew's sight gag crewmate Rio, while Paul Bettany does what he can with one - note bad guy Dryden Vos.

Sacha Baron Cohen is perfect as Ferrell's European foil Jean Girard, and the film is jam - packed with both sight gags (the live cougar in the race car) and brilliant dialogue (the prayer to eight - pound - six - ounce - newborn - infant Jesus).

Captured in sharp black - and - white Cinemascope photography that complements its exquisite Tati - like sight gags, Aaltra undermines conventional attitudes toward the disabled with its dry wit and acerbic, vengeful characters.

Frank McKlusky C.I. has about a handful of witty lines, about one or two decent sight gags, and an overall goofiness that keeps it from being out - and - out detestable (although often flirting with it.)

An early scene shows Hitchcock playfully demonstrating the «swaying lovebirds» effect (the most amusing sight - gag in «The Birds»), and later we watch Hedren endure minor injuries while shooting the film's terrifying phone - booth scene, when Hitchcock endangered the actress with breaking glass and a fake attacking seagull.