The snappy dialogue is there, but the story is full of huge gaps and campy scenes that come out of left field to up the comedic ante. |
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Certainly the Evil Dead movies are campy horror, but kind of a macho camp, if there is such a thing. |
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The dialogue is frenetic and noirish, the action punctuated by a string of jarring, campy song-and-dance numbers. |
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There's so much macho posturing in this book that it would be campy if there were any humour. |
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His campy gay stereotype act is hilarious, especially since he drops it with a roll of his eyes whenever the smitten guards aren't watching. |
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In this respect, the piece is operatic and, like opera, is sometimes exaggerated and campy. |
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Nevertheless, with its campy sword and sorcery adventures, The Barbarian was right at home at the fringe. |
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She'd been sitting quietly up until this point, but decided to have a great old yak in protest while Lee does this really appalling campy dance. |
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The team ownership was spectacular, and while many of the promotions were campy as all get out, they never did anything halfway. |
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The way he escapes capture is amusingly campy and clever, and the fight scene is dizzying with an unexpected twist. |
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Both the books and the films are artful and entertaining, but also more than a little bit campy, like zoot suits and swing dancing. |
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The main weakness of the tradition is an attitude of campy superiority, one that can quickly become self-congratulatory. |
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As the cabal's infiltrant, Dolores Umbridge, Staunton is pitch-perfect in her twinkle-eyed, campy villainousness. |
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Riffing on campy styles ranging from karaoke to '80s rock videos, the tunes are both catchy and hilarious. |
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And while the plot makes the film sound like a campy thriller, it never falls into that trap. |
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Historical fiction varies from campy romance to character studies with imaginative insights more exact than fact. |
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The kooky comedy may have had 'em rolling in the aisles forty years ago, but today the humor feels a trifle campy and seriously dated. |
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Liam Neeson is a stylish and real villain, choosing to inject his character with humanity instead of campy theatrics. |
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Both were meant to show cutting-edge technology, but now they are extremely campy, outdated relics of yesteryear and just a plum bad idea. |
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The film plays like a live-action cartoon, with deliberately flat backdrops, oversized props, and campy, exaggerated action. |
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Viewed as a campy parody of the genre, the movie fares better, although it's neither funny enough nor enjoyable enough to be considered watchable. |
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The chorus shimmies, writhes, whirls, frugs, and electric-slides from one end of the stage to the other in the campy choreography of debauched hippies. |
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If their campy, defanged delivery is too much for you, and you like your rock sweaty and sincere, there's still more than a couple songs with wider appeal. |
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Once a refuge for brahmins looking to blow off steam, today the group is known for its campy puns and campier costumes. |
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A campy sendup of nun movies, the show is at SoHo Playhouse through January 2nd. |
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Sporting fluorescent lederhosen and long blond braids, she coos coquettishly about the lump on her wrist while cranking campy 60s garage riffs out of an amped-up keyboard. |
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Are there any more sexy, campy, sci-fi fantasy movies like this out there? |
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In the air is a Fear and loathing in Las Vegas vibe, a little campy, a little naughty and a lot raw. |
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Thus the campy prose style and the author photo in trench coat and fedora. |
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Some critics would argue that that is seven campy, poorly made, arguable offensive films too many. |
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And it's not exactly because Lifetime's version isn't nearly as campy or fun as many viewers might have been expecting. |
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The dynamic duo delivers a campy performance that encapsulates everything there is to love about this show. |
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The folks at the White House had better understand how quickly a campy horror movie can get ugly. |
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You gotta love them for their originality, even if the movies featured in this collection are a mixed bag of campy flicks, classic genre rip-offs, and foreign titles. |
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While these campy interludes are good for a few laughs, after the first one they quickly become interminable and stop the film dead in its tracks. |
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As you can see, it gets perilously dense, but never indigestibly campy. |
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The short entries range from campy, insidery quips to trenchant cultural observations. |
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But some have described his work as misogynistic, campy and gaudy. |
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One day I had unsupervised access to the family PC and, for reasons forgotten, an urge to hear the campy orchestral number from the film Austin Powers. |
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As, in an increasingly visual and non-oral culture, linguistic elegancies fade, their revival and preservation seem worth the effort, even at the cost of a certain campy, parodic note. |
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What is the test called that Lior invented to identify the campy? |
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Over the past few seasons, punk Style has transcended from campy to cool. |
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She was a wonderfully campy, vampy siren, and her double fouettes in the coda were breathtaking. |
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Was it a campy comedy or a serious action film? |
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Oh this happened, and Williams sold it in all of its campy glory. |
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Realizing that the first was a sleeper hit, Raimi put out a sequel in 1987 that featured rawer violence balanced with an injection of campy humor. |
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Composed in the 1920s, when Erik Satie and Dadaist ideas about art were much in vogue, the opera lives on the borderline between childhood fantasy and campy surrealism. |
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For the campy, operettic purposes of Little Mary Sunshine indubitably. |
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