Sentences with phrase «zaniness in»

There's a familiar zaniness in the way the game treats its items, similar to the way something as trivial as a paperclip can also be the key to success in games like Day of the Tentacle and other LucasArts adventure games.

I'm looking forward to the goofy zaniness in Brothers Bloom.

Not exact matches

In a photo recently posted to Instagram, Floyd Mayweather, the boxer, sits on a private jet surrounded by stacks of dollar bills, touting the sale of tokens for a prediction market called Stox — a moment some saw as proof that ICO hype had reached peak zaniness.

Despite three quarters of explosiveness, and despite typical Les Miles - related special teams zaniness, this ended in strangely orderly fashion.

The film's opening narration introduces us to Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell in an economic performance where we can feel Ferrell's natural zaniness coursing underneath Crick's bland exterior, just begging to be let out.

... The show's workplace zaniness is definitely where Champions is most a work - in - progress.

Left as the straight man, Wilson's Mitch is relatively bland, forced to whine a lot about his friends» misbehavior, although the actor's lackadaisical disposition is occasionally interrupted by flashes of zaniness, including a disastrous post-breakup bender at Frank's wedding reception in which he attempts to vent his pent - up rage and frustration during his ceremonial toast.

Regardless of how you feel about his personal antics, there's no denying that Gibson is a talented actor, and his mixture of charm, danger and zaniness (all qualities that made Martin Riggs an action movie icon) are on full display in director Jean - François Richet's darkly comic thriller.

The vampires zip around in blurry, crazy - fast jolts that seem like silent - movie zaniness.

Exhibiting signs of drug - fueled brain damage, Galifianakis confidently treats the film's first half as a personal showcase, nailing so many weirdly uncomfortable one - liners — including a priceless gag involving an infant and simulated masturbation — that despite the predictable homophobic barbs marring the early mood, he single - handedly inspires confidence in the zaniness promised by the subsequently established premise.

Mistress America continues to play up Gerwig's gift for physical comedy, and the plot, which whisks Brooke and Tracy to Connecticut in search of startup money, gives the second half a screwball zaniness unmatched in Baumbach's work since Mr. Jealousy.

Hopefully for their encore, the creators will figure out a better way to give is all of the snark, zaniness, and tongue - in - cheek references we want, without having to shoehorn several dozen characters into yet another formula plot barely worth following.

Instead of wearing a suit that is split down the middle by a terrible tailor, complete with animal prints and other colorful zaniness, Two Face's suit here keeps it mundane work - week, though frayed and lived - in on his bad side.

Unfortunately for him, however, his diminutive, «finding himself in the big city» recluse has no chance against the boisterous Harrison when in the same scene (although, truth be told, during a few extra man mentoring scenes his straight man ways were a welcome offset to Kline's zaniness).

These Looney Tunes - ish bits that have Sidhu literally kicked from one side of his town of Chandni Chowk to the other by his adoptive father (Mithun Chakraborty) serve to distance the viewer, Bollywood familiar or not, just about from the jump; Advani was obviously chasing after the FX - bolstered zaniness of Stephen Chow, but even the live wire Chow knows better to wait until the audience has settled in a bit before unleashing his unbridled insanity.

In addition to the game's inherent zaniness, I discovered a sizeable upgrade system that lets you unlock buffs and wacky powers — like the ability to trap your enemies in giant floating bubbles or an upgrade that turns you into a bulldozer when you sprint into environmental objectIn addition to the game's inherent zaniness, I discovered a sizeable upgrade system that lets you unlock buffs and wacky powers — like the ability to trap your enemies in giant floating bubbles or an upgrade that turns you into a bulldozer when you sprint into environmental objectin giant floating bubbles or an upgrade that turns you into a bulldozer when you sprint into environmental objects.

With forced jokes and performances that go for increased zaniness without adequate material to take things to the next level first, Funny Money sinks into the comedy abyss due to spending too much time spinning its wheels in plot mechanics and desperate injections of trite shenanigans for easy laughs.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

She's able to convey bubble - brained zaniness about as well as anyone in the movies right now, and then she can switch gears and give you a scary dramatic performance in something like «Vanilla Sky.»

Tracy Morgan might even be accused, when left to his own devices, of being too weird for most people to actually «get» as a comedian, only really taking off after TV's «30 Rock», which is known for its excellent writing, utilizing him in scenarios that allow the cast to play off of his zaniness.

Dylan Baker puts in a great performance as Freddie Shapp, however he's effectively playing the straight guy to Ferrell et al's zaniness, so it can't have been as fun for him.

is a fun film, mostly due to Mogwai cuteness, Gremlin zaniness and countless in - jokes.

It has been twenty years since the original, a low - brow, relentlessly idiotic, but often hilarious outing which starred Jim Carrey at the height of his zaniness and Jeff Daniels in a role nobody expected him to take.

Dayton and Faris» understated, empathetic direction smartly plays against the zaniness of the screenplay; even when it veers into slapstick Weekend At Bernie's territory, the film never loses its grounding in reality.

Yet, while there are numerous moments of disjointed unevenness with the jokes and pacing in Hell Baby, there are enough instances of sublime zaniness that those shortcomings can occasionally be overlooked.

Throw in some equally bizarre scenes: one with Robert Patrick deep in the jungle (that is so obviously a studio backlot) and another in a cave with Bigfoot (which obviously looks like a guy in an ape suit) and your monthly allotment for zaniness should just about be reached.

Check out the reveal trailer in all its fourth wall - breaking zaniness below, among various other exciting gameplay videos captured by the Nintendo Wire team.

As an added bonus, additional content in the form of Taiko No Tatsujin, the theme items ranging from outfits to health gauge skins bring up some zaniness to the battlefield we are all used to.

As an extra, available content for download has come in the form of Taiko No Tatsujin, the theme items ranging from outfits to health gauge skins bring up some zaniness to the battlefield we are all used to.

If none of them seem as resistance - minded as Broodthaers, who was young in a time of revolutions, all share something of his subversive zaniness.

Schutz's zaniness — symbolic of the twenty - first - century subject's experience of being confronted by too many things at once — is echoed in Chris Ofili's glittering decorative abstraction, Triple eye vision 2000 — 2002, 2002, and Katherine Bernhardt's Lisa Simpson, watermelon, cantaloupe, cigarettes, and chapstick, 2016, which revisits Pop art in the wake of 1990s grunge.