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Other than the aforementioned actors comic relief turns in this flick, the delightful eye-candy that is the luscious Anna Friel and an uneven soundtrack with a small handful of classic 70's rock ditties that still make me want to hold up a lighter even to this day I just can't bring myself to say that "Sunset Strip" is much of a movie, and certainly not one that comes highly recommended to anyone!
This short demonstrates all of Harold Lloyd's irreverence, his charm and his comic ability.
Lil Abner ran as a comic strip for over 20 years before being converted into a long running Broadway musical.
The film as a whole is just shallow and mindless, like living out some immature adolescent comic book geek's dream.
I understand the movie was fan based and the script was written with prior knowledge of the batman comic, cartoon and movie series.
The actors have little ability in comic timing (what halfway decent comedic director would willfully hire George Lopez to be in their movie?), and Robert Ben Garant often fails to sell the jokes, even when they are potentially amusing.
Even when the comic performances are good, as is the case with Walken and co-writer Thomas Lennon himself, the editing is so poor that the gags almost never hit.
The comic relief comes in Chema, a rock-store clerk, who, along this priest takes this trip to it's ultimate consequences.
Oh dear was I wrong....Parts I liked (no spoilers)...the camera work, Max Beesley's character, comic touches....Parts I didn't like....Tom Bell's character (totally unbelievable) as to was Jason Issacs, the end, the middle and about 90% of the story.
I feel he was able to roll a successful comic career into a sometimes brilliant movie career.
I am a Midwesterner who loves visiting New York City, so I do not believe it is a put down of the big apple, but simply a comic study of a trip where everything goes wrong for a very high-strung person and his comparatively passive wife.
He lacks comic timing and "The Grand" is fatally long.
After all, the director's forte is comic book adaptations and very few are blessed with the kind of comic chops to pull something like this off.
There are perhaps 2-3 chuckles here and there, but most of the "comic" material is lame slapstick.
Taken as a period piece when the sexual revolution was completely redefining the country's moral code, the film is a shrewdly observed, sharply comic character study among the Southern California bourgeoisie.
There is, in fact a "real" gorilla on the loose (played by Art Miles - the makeup, while not great, wasn't as bad as some that I've seen), who can't be the murderer (because first, gorillas can't write notes and, second, he hasn't been on the loose long enough to have committed the murders) but still he provides plenty of comic relief in his scenes with the Ritz Brothers.
Faust: Love of the Damned takes that basic plot and adds in a heavy metal soundtrack, a bunch of gore and a comic book central character and the result is...well, not even as good as you might think it will be.
The inspiration for this film was a comic book by Tim Vigil and David Quinn which, like every other comic book ever made, I haven't read.
However, it would seem obvious that director Brian Yuzna took most of his inspiration from this film from the comic book revenge flick 'The Crow', and somehow this film doesn't come off as well.
The movies feels like some Japanese manga comic.
Granted, it will never be taken for a masterpiece - the comic elements of the film consistently fall flat, and the plot is a fourth-rate knockoff of Hitchcock - but it isn't a complete dud either.
1-Ichi origin is from the Japanese comic.
A clever script and comic timing that only Jerry Seinfeld has mastered, this film is sure to take you on a journey.
Since the French think that Jerry Lewis is a comic genius, I've long since given up trying to understand THEIR aesthetic.
Cary Grant is in fine comic form, as are the rest of the cast.
I don't know who is this director phenomena, but I think he never saw anything about James O Barrs' comic or the first movie.
The film attempts to portray a dark period of English history and this is convincingly portrayed in the atmosphere, costume and make up of the actors but by adopting a light hearted portrayal of a serious character, he manages to balance just the right amount of comic relief.
After suffering through the histrionic throes of unrequited love by the heroine, the wooden performance of the lead (a Metropolitan Opera reject), and the dull and obvious comic chatter of the comic duo, finally comes the big scene.
Most of which is redundant, but the sheer ineptitude and lack of point is somewhat comic in effect.
That is a pity because they could have had for once a documentary about kids finding their way rather than losing themselves but the filmmaker went rather with the caricatural: -the genius overachiever (the good) -there's the tortured teenager (the bad) -the 9 year old twins who would not know what a beat (or singing in tune) is if it came up and hit them in the head (the comic relief) -the school director who spends his time screaming and berating these kids like it's boot camp time in full metal jacket (bare in mind these kids are between the ages of 9 and 17)- (the ugly) - Even after their triumph at the Zappa fest you don't see him once high five a kid or give him or her a compliment.
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