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The special effects and action are a bit cheesy, but the show play it tongue in cheek ("laser whip, really?").
I have read most of the other comments, but they don't do justice to it, mainly because of the lack of understanding the original tongue of this film.
This is more evident if you don't need to rely on the subtitles, as the original dialog comes across as hollow and flat in the native tongue.
The writer/director obviously has his tongue firmly planted in cheek.
having watched Jenifer Garner in P.S I Love you i expected a lot from her in this film, but instead of being a leading role as she was a vital part of the plot she felt a lot like an addition to the thin story line, most of the time she looked like she was tripping over her tongue when Connor Mead was mentioned.
An other revealing mistake is the American guy/gay, who shows up in the last part of the movie; quite confusing when a character who is so proud of his multi-lingual talents has such a strong foreign accent when he speaks his mother tongue...
Oh yes, Shatner also has a totally forced romance with the boy's mom (naturally, Kolden plays a fatherless child) Whale of a Tale is actually pretty funny if you can accept it as tongue in cheek.
"Attack the Gas Station!" is not only the most entertaining film Korea has produced during it's recent industry boom, but one of the most fun, tongue in cheek, genre-aware action/comedies from anywhere since heck knows when.
Beautifully shot, absorbing film about the close-knit Tucker clan - Sam (Zachary Scott), the handsome dad who loves being a farmer, Nona (Betty Field), a good wife and mother who always seems to look well-groomed in spite of her hard work, two really cute kids, and then there's ornery old Granny (Beulah Bondi), she of the sharp tongue and stubborn will.
Like his previous movie "The Passion of the Christ," Gibson lets the characters talk in their native tongue (here it's the dialect of the Mesoamericans) so that you have to put up with subtitles.
it has to be dun tongue in cheek.there's
Although it's all tongue in cheek I am willing to surmise the writing is based on true life experience.
Even the last quarter of the movie where it switches from documentary style to the standard stationary camera is very tongue in cheek.
The young Oliver and Richardson -- especially Richardson -- are obviously having a ball in this mix of spies, high adventure, and tongue in cheek comedy According to Michael Powell, the two stars tore up the script, and devised their own scenes, and the pleasure they have in sending up the material, and in each other's work, shines through.
Everything from the stretching tongue to the the exploding bird.
This is obviously a tongue in cheek scary movie, with lots of little jabs of humor at all walks of life.
Verne seems to adapt best to the screen with some Spielberg like tongue in cheek attitude, which is sadly lacking in this film.
Subtitles in the latter tongue are for the most part accurate.
But, whereas Pirahna was created as a fun, tongue in cheek, little thriller that knew to cleverly mock its source material all the while winking at the audience, the good folks at the Asylum only wish to cash in and worry about product quality later...much later.
No movie character has ever driven me to the brink of tongue chomping, teeth gnashing psychosis like that floppy eared moron.
Let me say from the start that it is FANTASTIC... a tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet proportions, and yet utterly hilarious; a western, and yet set in fifties' Thailand; technically superb and yet filled with pastiches of movie cliches; tongue in cheek and yet very moving.
sorry it's really movie i couldn't understand at all first of all the name's were very strange to me then the plot was very confused the relationships between the characters of the movie another mystery what's happened to the mother is she died ? a lot of questions which you will never get an answer to them it's really so bad but still the main idea of the movie is not so bad this haunted house and whoever connect with it is disappeared by somehow i think i like it maybe the language has it's effect my mother tongue is Arabic and as you know we all used to English but Japanaise is very unfamiliar .
I elected to bite my tongue and watch the rest, finding myself pushed away further by acting that just did not seem to be trying or allowed to try, from actors that I have seen do much better.
Indianians and Indians a nice touch tongue twister.
However, I am disappointed that Jon Avnet chose to have the leading lady speak in English on some scenes that could be more authentic if she had spoken in her mother tongue.
with slobbery sharp teeth and terribly sensitive to light, attack the locals by wrapping it's lizard tongue around their throats, whisking them out of the camera frame.
Interviewees spoke in their native tongue, no translations were given.
The worst unrealistic part of the film is where the girl gets her tongue cut out.
Surely someone with their tongue cut out in some woods and chained to a tree, would bleed to death rapidly?
Gene Wilder (Rudy Hickman) keeps having trouble with the jobs he's had due to his constant daydreaming or his so called "nervous behavior" dealing with sticking his tongue out at people and temporary voice loss.
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