Characters like Bat - Mite may become pretty grating with his repetitive tutorials after awhile, but he is still bound to make
the younger audience laugh.
Not exact matches
Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) thinks he can pass as a westerner, which results in saddle sores for the bethumped
young Hardy and (hopefully)
laughs for the
audience.
What's most wonderful is that this Michael Ritchie film not only paints a ruthless picture of a vapid «
Young American Miss» pageant, steadily refusing to grant the
audience any note of reassuring sentimentality, but that its gags are often
laugh - out - loud funny (particularly during the talent competition).
Though there's some adult humor sprinkled throughout, it'll be the
young adult
audience laughing at every gag while older viewers eventually grow tired of the cheap
laughs (especially the repeated fat jokes) and dispensable storyline.
«The Hot Chick» has moments of heart and is better than expected, but still goes for cheap
laughs to bring in the
young audience.
Both parents and
younger audiences found a lot to
laugh about in this vulgar, slapstick, ironic comedy.
The real
laugh is that the film's ostensible moral is to act your age while virtually every joke is stolen from a genre intended for stars and
audiences ten - plus years
younger than anyone involved, meaning all the sexual insecurity and juvenilia is infected with considerably more than the usual touch of the pathetic.
To this day, the
audiences don't know whether to
laugh or cry when encountering the long - winded melodrama about an aged music - hall performer and a troubled
young ballerina.
Magical and quotidian, Boyhood is just such a victory, which is why the Sundance
audience, some of whom remembered seeing Slacker when we and Linklater were more than two decades
younger,
laughed and cried and clapped like crazy when he took his bow.
The best I managed were a couple of smirks, mostly based on situational comedy rather than actual attempts at jokes - but the
young couple of 16/17 were
laughing their asses off at every fart joke - line, so I guess we know which
audience is really captured by the film.
From the outset there are some cheap
laughs that will certainly appeal to the
younger audience but the film suffers throughout by failing to choose a target demographic or appeal equally to several.
The
laughs are aimed towards
younger audiences, but the cutscenes are charming and insouciant about their source material enough to make any player smile, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that they're entirely unskippable when you first play a mission.