Word: slapstick
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...ITMFG tiddle cup is brimful of incidental pleasures and outrages. In Wilson Yip?s ?Bio Zombie,? which shambles through an hour of slacker slapstick set in a Hong Kong mall (it could be called ?Chungking Excess?) before it gets to providing actual entertainment value with a half-hour of vampire carnage, the two boho heroes, Jordan Chan and Sam Lee, spend half their time in the toilet. Chan: ?What are you doing here?? Lee: ?I am stooling...
Durang’s play is in many ways a bleak statement on the disappointments of life and the inability to communicate and introduces two homosexual characters to update William’s vision of the American family and society. Still this production focused more on slapstick comic delivery than an exploration of these more serious themes...
...felon Cosimo (Luis Guzman), a brainless band of six rogues decides to do some safe-cracking. What actually happens when they try to pull their “Bellini,” or perfect heist, promises to provide some amusing small-time comedy with more than a bit of slapstick...
...film, Plummer turns to his best friend Duff, played by Tom Green, for plans that are “so dumb they are brilliant” to raise the large amount needed to keep his promise to his niece—mostly gross-out slapstick comedic schemes with little financial reward...
...Touch aspires to action, adventure, romance, slapstick, plus a little Buddhist spiritual gloss on the side. Maybe it combines too much. Crouching Tiger, conceived like a dream by director Ang Lee, managed to incarnate a China straight out of a storybook?a very Chinese storybook. The Touch has China everywhere in the background?golden deserts, Tibetan mountains, endless blue skies?but Hollywood action in the forefront. The cinematic mating of East and West is far advanced?but some of the offspring look a little strange...