The theory: a packed theater would make a funny movie seem even funnier.
It calls to mind the scene in stand-up comedian movie "Funny People, " when Jonah Hill's chubby comic scolds Seth Rogen's for losing weight.
There might be some funny scenes in the movie, but even a caveman knows that you can't start a fire without rubbing the sticks together.
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Crossed cultures and cross-dressing meet in this blissfully funny romance and odd-couple movie, set in a Canadian backwater.
Despite the constrictions, Cronenberg keeps the space handsome and active, and much of the movie is dreamy and funny in an off-centered way.
Parts of the movie are jaunty and funny (the director gets the opera-buffa side of Italian Fascism), though Bellocchio treats Dalser with the gravest courtesy.
The sense of period, of ungainly English pride, is funny and acute, but the movie mislays its sense of wit as the girls grow up.
Agnieszka Holland created the only Holocaust movie that simultaneously tickles the funny bone and stings the heart.
There are a few funny scenes, but most of the movie is excruciating.
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The movie is well acted and very funny about delusions, especially the writerly kind.
Warmly emotional, the movie is also filled with inexplicably funny jokes.
For all its imperfections, the movie is a great catch too, funny and touching in equal measure.
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"Whereas the movie was over-the-top funny, the sitcom's opening episode was over the top minus the funny, despite lacking only one member of the big-screen cast, " the review said.
This movie aims for the tear ducts and the funny bone as ruthlessly as the big action-fantasy hits go after the viscera.
Featuring Robert DeNiro, Susan Sarandon and Amanda Seyfried, the movie could give Heigl a chance to show how funny she can be when the pressure is off.
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The director, Stuart Gordon, and his screenwriters (Steve Feinberg, Troy Neighbors, and Terry Curtis Fox) scatter funny touches and even some signs of warped intelligence throughout this futuristic jailbreak movie.
Though the movie drags through some dull and witless sections, Bad Teacher can be funny in this way.
Star Wars is, of course, a mishmash of B-movie and sci-fi conventions: laser pistols, hyperdrive ships and funny little men.
Which is always fun, when they can make a movie that has good special effects and a good story, and make it funny too.
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The movie often plays like a series of TV-comedy skits, some of them funny and incisive, some larkish and insubstantial.
The movie is a fine, terrifying tragic poem that is also, at times, subversively funny: the women who like Brandon seem to want the feminine as well as the masculine in a lover.
Often enough, that movie stars Meryl Streep, and here she is again with "Hope Springs, " a funny, outwardly modest comedy that manages to feel utterly novel by focusing on the sexual and emotional needs of an older woman.
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