I agree — a critique isn't a sendup, and the movie is no rejection of its own methods but a frank unstinting interrogation of their emotional, aesthetic, and personal implications — and thus the filmmaker's own stringent questioning of himself, as are Swanberg's own films (and, in his post, he suggests the sorts of questions that he and Holzman — i.e., McBride — share).
We're only five minutes or so into the show, and already Gardley is "stuffing" our minds with his lush, metaphor-filled lines, which are not only a sendup of antebellum-inflected Southern locutions but a rewriting of them.
The show is not a snarky sendup of loveless nerds or callous swingers; it's a fairly gentle comedy about burnouts who call themselves a band of brothers.
But then Maino flips the story, renouncing violence, to create a sendup not just of hip-hop's internal clichés, but also of how outsiders perceive it The waves of Internet comedy move quickly, and it requires nimbleness to stay out in front.
Whether it's in a feather-light satire ("But I'm a Cheerleader") or a sendup of sendups ("Not Another Teen Movie"), we are offered a candy-colored cartoon where nothing changes except the slang.
A portrait of Raja Sidh Sen of Mandi as a chinless wonder may look like a sendup but it's not.
In both movies, he wears his shirt open to mid-chest and his pants skintight; he's both a strutting stud and a sendup of one, over the top yet not too far over.
At one blog, hipstersareannoying.com, the author posted a sendup of all things Williamsburg: "I don't have any of those little T-shirts that say things about Little League football teams from little nowhere American towns...
