Not exact matches
By Hope Madden I edit college textbooks for a
living, with all the associated hoopla, madness and
zaniness you might expect to go along with that job.
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.
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.
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.
While the Directs he presents are rather understated compared to the
zaniness NOA happens to present (see NOA's Tomodachi
Life Direct for example), he has a style about him that seems very much like the late Nintendo President.