Sentence examples for soft comedy from inspiring English sources

"Georgia Rule," in which Jane Fonda washes Lindsay Lohan's mouth out with soap, might easily have been a tepid, sudsy puddle of easy sentiment and soft comedy.

The robot and Frank make a predictable odd couple, one that the first-time feature director Jake Schreier, working from Christopher D. Ford's script, tries to sell with smiles and soft comedy.

Early critics panned the movie for glamorizing prostitution and theft, while others called it a "soft comedy with a limp end," but its box-office receipts ($6 million grossed worldwide) and five Academy Award nominations spoke louder to its widespread appeal.

He continued that "Hard science meets soft comedy, and the results are consistently surprising and rarely disappointing.

For the uninitiated, Dortmunder and company first appeared in print in 1970 with The Hot Rock, a soft comedy caper, later made into a movie starring Robert Redford as Dortmunder, with George Segal and Ron Liebman.

Newcomers who like to savor soft comedy in the vein of the old The Lavender Hill Mob, will find entertainment delight in Get Real and many of the others in the series.

Paige starred in the 1978 sex (soft porn) comedy film Adventures of a Plumber's Mate After months of acting and singing auditions, Hal Prince offered the still relatively unknown Paige the title role of Eva Perón in the first stage production of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Evita.

Infidelity Norwegian-style in this soft-hearted comedy, as two unhappy couples come together and work out their differences in a milieu of snowy landscapes and cosy sweaters.

I really wanted to like it, and there are some laughs, but the film doesn't fully earn our sentimental indulgence, and there is a persistent sort of Britfilm lameness, 2-D characterisation and soft-focus comedy.

So you can imagine the hilarity that ensues in Kindergarten Cop – the forerunner for one-joke "hard men in soft role" comedies from the likes of Vin Diesel and the Rock – as the man destined to become the governator shows us why angry action stars shouldn't quit their day jobs to stand in front of a class of impressionable toddlers.

His response: The deep practice takes you only so far, especially with soft skills like comedy.