Word: funnier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Week strongly stated his case for repeat honors, as he played nearly the entire game, logging 38 minutes, and was remarkably efficient, shooting 9-of-12 from the floor. “Jeremy is playing amazing,” Pusar said. “What’s even funnier, he’s carrying such an enormous load, but he does this every day in practice too. He proves day in, day out he’s a well rounded player, and at the same time, he carries the offensive load.” Lin’s burst...
...Here's what you have to ask about scene stealers: Are they funnier than the star characters because they're not on screen as long? Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman all have the heavy lifting of story lines; Julien and the penguins (and a couple of cranky monkeys who serve as the movie's Statler and Waldorf) have only to shake their shtick, deliver their bright lines and get off. (Also, they're smaller in stature, hence cuter.) Liberated from the burden of consciences or backstories or any recognizable feelings; they have no obligation to audiences other than to make...
...characters don't measure up, and the original British ones - like Lucas as thick-accented juvenile delinquent Vicky Pollard - are so culturally specific that they translate to being plopped inexplicably into American settings here like spotted dick on a McDonald's dollar menu. (Except that spotted dick is funnier...
...lawyer to the rich, tabloid-fodder family the Darlings--started fall 2007 sassy and slick but became increasingly earnest and torpid as it went on. The producers decided, astutely, that it needed to return dirtier and sexier, or there would be no mo' money. The return episode is also funnier and dumber, in the best sense: it's the kind of show in which a jilted wife confronts her politician husband with a golf club in the shower over his tranny lover. Its stripped-from-the-tabloids approach is nothing new, but it's well done, and a little familiarity...
...Damme legend. With the star, now 47, looking puffy and played out, and with so many references to his off-screen philandering and drug use, the movie bears comparison to Mickey Rourke's turn in The Wrestler, also at Toronto. Except that this one is sharper, crueler, way funnier - part parody, part exposé, especially in an eight-minute take of the star in closeup, where Van Damme makes a confession of his personal and career sins, and the tough guy ends up crying. It is the finest, most scab-pulling performance I saw in Toronto, and it should earn...