It's unfair to expect a cheerful animated comedy to approximate Malick's cosmogonic exhilarations, but for a director of genius there are ways.
That's the crisis in "No Dogs Allowed!," a cheerful road comedy from Atlantic for Kids, the children's wing of the Atlantic Theater Company.
I was very surprised when I saw the finished product, because it's a movie that would seem to be a kind of cheerful adventure comedy -- which it is on one level.
This is a cheerful, boisterous, surreal comedy about two Gypsy patriarchs, a self-made young man, an arranged marriage and a heist.
It is not often that the name Ken Loach is used in a sentence that includes the phrase "cheerful, feelgood romantic comedy", but that was what he delivered today at the world's biggest film festival.
As a fan of Whit Stillman's dry, cheerful, talky romantic comedies, I have been looking forward to "The Cosmopolitans" since it was first announced back in April.
Like his 1994 hit, Dead Funny, Terry Johnson's Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick marks the passing of a cheap-and-cheerful era of British comedy.
Their comedy isn't cheerful, but it's scintillating and smart.
Writing in The Times, Nathan Lee said this comedy "puts a cheerful spin on its many clichés," adding, "This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb".
