Sentences with phrase «with slapstick humour»

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A breezy, passably funny spin on a children's classic, mixing slapstick and farce with character humour and delighting in demolishing stereotypes.

Young audiences will enjoy the fantastic animation, minor action sequences, and visual displays accompanied with light humour; especially absurd and slapstick.

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.

Just as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

ust as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

Gilliam and his co-screenwriters (an uncredited Charles Alverson (Jabberwocky), Charles McKeown and most famously, Tom Stoppard worked on it on and off over six years) stuff the film with subversive bon mots, furiously paced slapstick and sight gags, and the blackest of humour — it is at once thrilling and hilarious.

Its mentality is pure «Saved by the Bell» and «Sabrina the Teenage Witch» — in other words, it's extraordinarily low slapstick humour sanitized to the point of nausea, with an affection for camp kitsch so extreme that it's difficult to discern how much of it is self - knowing and how much of it is a result of nobody knowing anything.

My only gripe really was some of the superhero dreams sequences at the beginning of the film were perhaps more in keeping with the type of slapstick airhead humour Stiller exercised in Zoolander and was perhaps a little ill fitting for Walter Mitty.

Where some of Anderson's previous films (such as THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU) had a more subtle strand of humour, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL contains a lot more backhanded comments and slapstick elements.

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

It's a mish - mash of slapstick humour with over the top English accents, comic violence and romance.

Some of the more childish humour seems forced and without real substance, largely focusing on slapstick sight gags and the consumption of disgusting foods such as pancakes filled with worms.

It's also frequently hilarious, mining humour in slapstick, true, but also in the sort of self - effacing comedy with which Carell is most conversant.

Belott narrated the ordeal with the kind of stuttering, pun - filled nonsense and slapstick humour that characterises many of his performances, including the preposterous «fashion show» held at London's Serpentine Galleries in 2016.

By utilising the medium of human relationships, the comedic formulae of slapstick humour, or indeed any of the other innumerable tools of modern communication available, Christian Jankowski trades blows with history, politics and the language of art.