But the idea of a bogeymen football team is amusing. .
The movie's ideas are none too fresh -- the crazy sideburns and ugly neckties of the 1970's will yield only so much hilarity -- but there is a reasonably high quotient of funny jokes and off-thewall, nutty gags, including a street fight among rival news teams as amusing for its movie-star cameos as for its brutal slapstick (A. O. Scott) * BEFORE SUNSET," starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
Notable among Sidney's later films was the light comedy Who Was That Lady? (1960), which featured the amusing team of Dean Martin and Tony Curtis.
Some amusing team names were showcased at the Hong Kong Inter-City tournament, sponsored by J. P. Morgan, which ended on Sunday.
Plotlines not related to the team are sometimes amusing, but on the ball field, the show is content to just regurgitate a creaky formula; none of the actors, young or old, have found a way to make it new.
She and Ms. Walters are a sunny, amusing team, even when there's tension between them because Chris has so immersed herself in her new celebrity that she's ignoring Jem and her calm, thoughtful husband, Rod (Ciaran Hinds).
The day before the final against Norway, she had the team play an amusing game of soccer golf, complete with props and a team manager who carried a tray of sparkling water around the course as if she were a waiter.
"I got roundly criticized for bringing the team here, which was amusing, I think," said the Hurricanes' owner, Peter Karmanos, who uprooted the Hartford Whalers in 1997 and, after a two-year sojourn in Greensboro, N.C., moved them here in 1999.
And he has nice help in his amusing backup team, which is divided between parading peacocks (Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio and Mr. Sarsgaard) and slinking foxes (Ethan Hawke, Lee Byung-hun and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Garcia-Rulfognawho-off bitsteal pieces of the movie.
The big tough boys on the team thought it was amusing to have a preacher coaching them until, showing them how to tackle, he cheerfully knocked the amusement out of them.
