Sentences with phrase «with slapstick»

More important, they steer clear of the mean - spirited viciousness of much public discussion, replacing the castigating tone of talk radio with slapstick antics, anarchistic nonsense and off - balanced charm.

Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out of the most contemporary detritus — styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners — which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and pop cultural references.

The Detroit artist Scott Reeder is pretty hilarious, making paintings that send up the idea of Painting with slapstick gusto — and yet, at the same time, work as really, really good paintings.

Baseball Riot PS4, PS Vita (Cross Buy) Baseball Riot is a fun, physics - based puzzle game packed with slapstick comedy and mayhem.

Tennis in the Face is a physics based puzzle game with slapstick humor.

It's also fair to say he's a little clumsy, acting as the game's shallow flirtation with slapstick comedy.

With slapstick humor and witty asides to the reader, The Death - Defying Pepper Roux is a funny, fast - paced read... Ultimately this is the story of a good - hearted boy who only wants to live, but in the process of trying to do just that he learns that simply living is not enough.

Noir cut with wisecracks, thriller leavened with slapstick: these stories of an L.A. guy named Dick whose fist starts to tingle whenever he encounters bad attitude and who gets things done outside the strictures of the law made me laugh out loud.

So, they have loads of fun with slapstick and unexpected answers.

These sketches are fresh, witty, sarcastic, and mixed with slapstick humor and are intended to strengthen students» drama and theater skills while enjoying humor.

And with Slapstick's animated antics to deal with, can the wall - crawler possibly keep his promise to take super-heroing more seriously?

With its slapstick humor, turn based strategy and tried - and - true formula, Worms became a brand with a massive following and history.

Silent Movie is a wholly inspired comedy from Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles), a modern day silent movie, complete with slapstick gags and satirical digs at modern Hollywood.

Like the original Ice Age, this film is flush with slapstick violence played for comedy.

While you are likely familiar with slapstick comedy, this latest from director Antoine Fuqua could be described as slapstick action.

Most importantly there's heaps of character humour to go along with the slapstick.

The problem is that the splatter scenes juxtaposed with slapstick makes for a very disjointed final product.

Because she is paired with slapstick prone Segel, she is thrown into her own episodes as physical humor, but such jokes are forgotten about before the scene is even over (as with an episode involving a car door).

Try not to be both tickled and tensed up during a climactic chase and shoot - out that's equally riddled with slapstick and suspense.

All three actors are set to star in Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, a quick - fire comedy complete with slapstick violence and camp cross-dressing sequences.

While it's often very funny, it's also among the Coens» more thoughtful affairs, with the slapstick quality of their other musically - themed picture, «O Brother Where Art Thou,» a long way away.

Reportedly, Chris Farley himself was less - than - pleased with the end result, as he felt as though it went far too overboard with the slapstick physical humor and made him look buffoonish.

Writer Katie Dippold has built a career blending female empowerment with slapstick, as in the «Ghostbusters» remake and «The Heat.»

It's a pretty clever idea for a movie by Landis, combining meet - cute rom - com tropes with slapstick shootout action.

Night at the Museum II (PG for action, crude humor and mild epithets) Ben Stiller is back for another round of hijinks with historical figures as a hapless night watchman Larry Daley, with the slapstick taking place this time at the Smithsonian.

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).

The raunchy comedy Bachelorette has its fair share of conflict as the women try to repair a torn wedding dress during the never - ending night before the wedding, but it's less concerned with slapstick and more concerned with the unhappy, aimless paths of its characters.

Payne, who never met pathos he didn't feel inclined to puncture with slapstick humor, has somehow made his best drama and his worst comedy rolled into one.

Bursting with slapstick and a dark, subversive humour, it was part messed - up road trip, part satire of what it means to be a loser in a winner's world.

For all its «adult» qualities it never forgets it's about overgrown kids, complete with slapstick humiliation.

It begins with a slapstick portrait of desperation: Shane Danger (Emile Hirsch), the cafe owner in a rural town, learns that he must cut back on his staff to make ends meet.

Continuing to turn out box - office bonanzas like Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Edwards briefly jumped on the comedy bandwagon of the mid -»60s with the slapstick epic The Great Race (1965), which the director dedicated to his idols, «Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy.»

Weinstein flirts gently with slapstick throughout, such as in Menashe's mishaps with a vanload of gefilte fish, or his failed efforts to bake kugel for the memorial.

Fans recognize Thor as handsome, ferocious, often less compelling than at least half a dozen fellow Avengers, but now he's more whimsical, with slapsticks, and more resourceful in handling foes.

Not exact matches

To say the director butchered Tim Burton's established vision of Gotham City with his campy, slapstick characters is an understatement.

Somehow, with little consequence except the continued appreciation of British children, the puppet Mr. Punch has managed to commit domestic abuse, infanticide and other slapstick crimes for 350 years now.

The first Iron Man movie is, among other things, a very enjoyable romantic comedy with a healthy dose of slapstick.

It's the lying and deception that can destroy trust in these situations more than almost anything else, and the second episode even makes it a point to try and get that across through slapstick humor, until it ditches that initial argument altogether and starts becoming a wacky comedy in full with all of the usual trappings.

The videos are slapstick mini-masterpieces for softball aficionados, with Butler and Woodward giving famed comedy duos through history a run for their money as a pair of buffoons — Butler the boisterous, over-the-top funny man; Woodward the perfectly droll, hyper - vocal straight man, filling in dead air with improvised lines — desperately trying to get into a bat to juice it up.

He added, «Now what's wrong with that picture is that people's perception of the disabled, that kind of slapstick, people crashing into walls and things, that is keeping people from working.»

A little rough around the edges, Damn The Circus cleverly entwines a healthy dose of slapstick, tumbling and drama with incredible acrobatics.

About Blog The Illustration and animation portfolio of Luís Moreira, a professional cartoonist in Love with the art of Cartoon, the Slapstick comedy of Looney tunes and The magic of Disney and Ghibli Animation.

Though the movie begins like one of those wretched Robin Williams Disney comedies (and is dotted with bits of broken slapstick), it leverages the nastiness that has always underlaid his inexhaustible ingratiation.

A frantic sequence set in the theatre, with Shrek and his wife Fiona dolled up in full King and Queen garb, also hits the right balance between pure slapstick and visual invention.

In adapting Gabrielle Vincent's children's book series (huge in Europe), screenwriter Daniel Pennac and first - time director Benjamin Renner, collaborating with co-directors Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier (A Town Called Panic), mix whimsy, slapstick, and gentle pathos with easy grace.

Having already directed the first two (and superior) X-Men films, Singer shows a level of comfort with both the material and the cast, and he contributes at least one brilliant comic set piece in which new mutant Quicksilver (Evan Peters) lays waste to a kitchen full of security guards in languorous, Matrix - style bullet time (it looks gorgeous and has the slapstick choreography of a Three Stooges routine).

If the film has only one note to play, it plays it with a certain slapstick panache, landing closer to Reservoir Dogs than The Boondock Saints on the quality spectrum of movies about loquacious lowlifes with itchy trigger fingers.

The birds also provide the film's slapstick extremes, with Carrey setting most of his «Dumb and Dumber» aside.

The film's bouts of slapstick and sentiment sit slightly oddly with its downbeat tone, but if Wilson isn't entirely consistent as a character, Harrelson is consistently funny — and if anyone can make a sociable misanthrope believable, he can.

Violence: During frequent scenes of slapstick violence, a man is hit in the groin and the head with a ball.