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By focusing on the comedic trials and tribulations of a successful and lovable family that just happened to be African American, it took away those limiting qualifiers of race and helped to redefine what it meant to just be an American family, all through the power of story.
Another winner from that 50s , 60s era that I love so much for the comedic value they give with each viewing these days .Corman never lets you down with these films , they take themselves seriously and they have very low budgets , a recipe for good watching for sure .
In efforts to make a somewhat comedic yet serious movie about the art of growing marijuana, Stephen Gyllenhaal (director) fell a few bong rips short of a good movie.
It's a drama and the apparently comedic instances are pitiful.
It's a drama and the apparently comedic instances are pitiful, and some of them appear forced and contrived.
I gave Soul Plane the benefit of the doubt and thought there would actually be something of comedic value in it.
Screen treatment of the comedic Broadway success "The Gay Divorce" (a title which was considered too scandalous for American moviegoers, though it was used in the U.K.) concerns a man and woman (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) meeting under embarrassing circumstances while she's in the process of divorcing her spouse; they dance, argue, make up, dance, argue some more and dance some more.
A lot of current and former superstar athletes appeared in this production during one of the film's comedic highlights.
To sum this movie up, it is LaBute carrying his sadism over into the realm of comedic farce.
Williams gives a great performance, right on par with his comedic style.
To me, the unusual premise is clearly a comedic one, and they should have gone for an all-out comedy.
He is almost unbearable to watch on screen, he has little to no charisma, and terrible comedic timing.
An ear-splitting movie, a quasi-old-fashioned screwball romp designed to showcase singing star Madonna's comedic attributes.
Unlike his competitors, he was comedic actor trained on the legitimate stage not a performed raised in the purgatory of the music hall or vaudeville circuit.
The Fulci-penned script also contrives to incorporate a few blackly comedic elements - which only result in some unfunny business involving a corpse which won't stay put, an opera singer victim who won't stop singing, etc. - not to mention a doppelganger theme straight out of THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE - although, in this case, the two personas communicate via pre-recorded radio messages!!
The "comedic" elements in this movie were just distracting and didnt ring true at all.
The comedian, Dylan Moran, who made his mark as the irritable and incompetent bookshop owner in the TV sitcom, Blackbooks, turns in much the same routine here, except with such excess and lack of comedic control as to leave one squirming.
I found the film wavered uneasily between occasional moments of suspense-thriller surrounded by light-hearted comedic interplay.
The differences between "Step-by-Step" and the two aforementioned shows was of course better writing, excellent comedic timing from almost all of it's actors, and a great deal funnier situations that weren't quite as sugar-coated as it's extremely popular predecessors.
But that was incident to the plot, presented for light, comedic effect, and (mercifully) brief.
The special effects are cheesy and poorly crafted, and the film makes use of this by playing on its comedic appeal.
Red Skelton does a cute bit with Donna Reed and Margaret O'Brien, but the other comedic bits suffer from an apparent vacuum between the performers and the allegedly-live audience (they're awfully silent until the editor cuts to them for exaggerated reaction shots).
George Burns returns as the joshing Almighty after enjoying a big success with 1977's "Oh, God!", an upbeat fantasy made successful by a sudden need in the 1970s to switch from devil-driven thrillers to comedic redemption (although it made money, the original was more in line with the "Topper" comedies of the '30s than a return to feel-good religious cinema).
I guess having group of terrible actors bickering for an hour was suppose to equal some "comedic" status, yet I found no humor in it, whatsoever.
"Armed and Dangerous" rarely tries to use John's comedic abilities, or that of Harold Ramis, for that matter.
Maybe if it had some comedic elements (which is doesn't, at least intentionally), or there were some additional dramatic elements (which there are not), or maybe if it was hardcore.
Later movies have revealed him to be a not just one-role actor: he also showed comedic flair in Sweet and Lowdown.
It's a total treat to see Cushing gleefully ham it up in a rare broad comedic part and become an unlikely, but enthusiastic arrow-slinging action hero in the last third of the flick.
Theresa Lee plays her comedic role well (Though much like a female version of Michael Wong, her gag seems to be the foreign born Chinese surrounded by native HKers.), and I found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes, something I haven't done since 1. the fan boys took over alt.asian-movies and 2. John woo's Hardboiled.
Amanda was a great actor in the movie, her comedic timing was perfect.
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