Sentences with phrase «worse than comedy»

If there's anything Spielberg does worse than comedy, it's romantic comedy.

Not exact matches

If you find yourself in the mood for a black comedy about a guy who is definitely worse off than you are right now, The Husband is that guy.

2011 was a year where the worst comedies made more headlines than the best (* ahem * Bucky Larson).

It's too bad, then, that the comedy spends so much more time mimicking the familiar than trusting in its own fresh perspective.

Overall, «Very Bad Things» is not always believable, and it's sometimes more disturbing than funny, but it's still a raucously fun black comedy.

Popper's assistant Pippi (Lovibond) speaks almost entirely using words beginning with «p» which is precisely as preposterous, pretentious and pitiful as it sounds and isn't the comedy genius it wants to be but other than that it's not at all bad.

The comedy misfires for the most part although that might be a question of taste, the drama elements feel clumsy, bland, but it's not handled worse than your average, mediocre American TV series.

The Hangover is deliciously darker than Phillips» previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice as those credits suggest (this is not, thankfully, Very Bad Things 2: Hey Guys, Let's Kill Some More Strippers).

If you want to do more than merely tolerate a comedy — in other words, if you want to fall in love with one — try binging on FX's You're the Worst.

If there's anything worse than seeing a bad movie, it's seeing a good movie made badly and sadly Eye of the Beholder could have been much better in the hands of someone more qualified in making smart thrillers than quirky art comedies.

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The comedy here works more often than not and he doesn't linger on any one joke too long for you to hardly notice the bad ones.

You could do worse — and possibly a whole lot better — than Melissa McCarthy's latest comedy, Life of the Party.

Bad Anna Kendrick is better than no Anna Kendrick — but this cringey wedding comedy almost sinks even her.

Lionsgate currently has 15 shows on more than 10 networks spanning its prime time production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically - acclaimed hits as «Mad Men», «Weeds» and «Nurse Jackie» along with the comedy «Blue Mountain State,» the upcoming drama «Boss» and the syndication successes «Tyler Perry's House Of Payne», its spinoff «Meet The Browns», the upcoming «For Better or Worse,» «The Wendy Williams Show» and «Are We There Yet?».

The male comedy («Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates» with Zak Efron and Adam Devine) cost about $ 13 million more than the female one («Bad Moms» with Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell), which grossed 41 % more its opening weekend, off slightly better reviews.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is somehow quite a bit worse than you could imagine a sequel to an okay comedy being.

Pretty cool... definitely better than the first trailer which looked like a bad comedy.

Granted, the plot's paper - thin, and there will be more than a few times throughout where someone is going to be wondering how many times déjà vu can hit them in a single movie — there's no doubt there are similarities to the outrageous hit comedy, The Hangover (what with all the drunken banter, inexplicable behavior and general distrust of one another in a city that likes to bring out the worst in people).

Yet even though Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a little confused on its tone, there's still more than enough physical comedy to amuse the kids whilst keeping mom and dad entertained.

A lively, realistic tone helps make this Toronto - set comedy much more than we expect, stirring in some thoughtful themes and honest emotion.After being badly injured during a hockey game, cocky Maple Leafs player Eric (Cavanagh)...

Hot Fuzz, Wright and Pegg's loving send - up of action comedies, suggests that its makers got more out of Bad Boys II and Point Break — two of its tongue - in - cheek touchstones — than most filmmakers get out of Citizen Kane and The Grand Illusion.

Comedy is an integral part of cinema, but Bad Grandpa fails both for being rarely funny and for its sense of humor being worse than anything it's attempting to send up.

A thoroughly enjoyable comedy that's better than most made today... too bad they don't make»em like they used to.

Bad Teacher - Better than it looked and than it got credit for, this dark comedy is quite funny and a bit clever.

Other than that, she is there strictly for comedy purposes, which isn't as bad as it sounds.

No more than a collection of bad ideas, abysmal portrayals, and cheap rip - offs of more successful comedies, Anchorman is for all of you out there who think Ferrell is great, or loved Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Old School.

So in telling the tale of Hilly Krystal, the club's unlikely founder played here by Alan Rickman, director Randall Miller («Bottle Shock») could do worse than render the early -»70s punk scene as breezy broad comedy.

But worse than that, the film's just not funny (this is particularly problematic given that The Spirit of 76 is supposed to be a comedy).

Judd Apatow's high - density, high - intensity comedy of bad (and good) manners is a cause for celebration — the laugh lines are smart, and they come faster than you can process them.

The past six months have been pretty sluggish for comedies at the box office, with high - profile movies like This Is 40 and Guilt Trip faring worse than expected, but comedy's dry spell seems to be over.

Okay, there is some charm to be found in this one but scary Tom Cruise has never been worse than in this film with his wild waving arms and fake plastic smile and why is there always a cynical sister or friend that try to stop the heroine in her pursuit for love in these romantic comedies and «cute» kid?

It's not hard to see the appeal of a movie like this — again, the premise is a slam - dunk as far as high - concept comedies go — but the execution is, at best, lacking, and at worst, baffling (why, for example, does this movie have more false endings than

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Pals Hatch Homicide Plot in Raunchy Revenge Comedy When three best friends meet for drinks after work one evening, each shares a tale of woe worse than the next about his boss from hell.

Just when you think that a Brittany Murphy (Just Married, 8 Mile) movie couldn't possibly be any worse than the horrendous Uptown Girls, along comes Little Black Book to have you thinking she has carved a mini-genre of moronic and manipulative romantic comedies all to herself.

Gringo has more dramatic heft than you'd expect — again, not a stoner comedy — and Oyelowo balances the grimmer parts of Harold's experience with a natural buoyancy that makes him a tremendously likeable character even as he is making increasingly bad decisions.

Rough Night, the new comedy directed by Lucia Aniello and written by Aniello & Paul W. Downs, finds old college friends reuniting in Miami for a weekend of bachelorette hijinks, the reopening of old wounds, and the execution of more than one bad idea.

That movie gets a little of a bad rap, but this go - around, their efforts do feel fresh and original in an R - rated comedy genre that too can feel more staid than the superhero one.

Cuba Gooding Jr. has gotten a bad rap for choosing some very silly comedies to be in of late, so it's easy to dismiss his performance here as one not to take too seriously, or just an attempt to try for a second Academy Award, but it's hard to imagine someone doing better than he does in the role.

Too bad it's less diverting than virtually all of his English language comedy.

Final Thoughts: If Pirates movies aren't your thing, then there are certainly worse things to check out other than a Dwayne Johnson summer comedy.

Watching Reeves lord over a boys» baseball team in a Bad News Bears - ish comedy is a horrifying enough prospect, but Hardball is even more galling than what the misleading ad campaign sells it as: it's a teary, inspirational sports drama.

And for the most part, «Bad Grandpa» is dumb, but it also made me laugh louder than a majority of the comedies released last year.

Be smart about your choice, and then you can enjoy the bad - fortune - teller commercials for the comedy they provide — rather than relying on them for helping you choose a broker!

It isn't a bad game, since the combat is pretty enjoyable, and the cel - shaded graphics really work for the whole action - comedy vibe it has going, but by restricting the ability to explore and do other things other than just fighting waves of enemies, it becomes a repetitive brawler.

«Sarc tags» are an utterly useless invention, worse even than canned laughter in so - called comedies.

I can tell you, however (as can your parents if you'd only just listen), that there are way worse options than comedy - based driver's ed.