Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal Characterised by
slapstick .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word slapsticky.
Examples
-
Ideally, such as slapsticky duo as Joshua and ER would seem like logical candidates to attempt to move a piano up a long flight of stairs, but unfortunately they remain stuck in the elevator and rehash the messy business that brought them to their state of inane violence.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2003
-
Even though the humor gets a bit too lowbrow and slapsticky at times, this was a very funny movie with an excellent cast.
-
His best friends are also dads, and their interaction feels like a more slapsticky version of Men of a Certain Age, minus the heart.
-
From Michael and Holly's slapsticky inter-office PDAs, to Pam and Jim's completely out-of-character liquid lunch, to the alarmingly cartoon-ish behavior of characters who used to feel like actual people, the whole thing was — in the words of Darryl — a little too much.
-
Whether it's the travesties of Tyler Perry or something as seemingly mainstream as last year's Our Family Wedding, these films tend to be cartoonish, broad or grossly slapsticky.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Jumping the Broom Marshall Fine 2011
-
If it's not funny, it becomes lugubrious; if it's too broad, like the slapsticky version that Boston's Huntington Theatre Company mounted four years ago, the results can swing perilously near vulgarity.
The End Of the Line Terry Teachout 2011
-
Even though the humor gets a bit too lowbrow and slapsticky at times, this was a very funny movie with an excellent cast.
-
Furthermore, Shyamalan said, I took away a little bit of the slapsticky stuff that was there for the little little kids, the fart jokes and things like that ...
-
Hopper's sensitive and slapsticky production largely gets it right.
Olney Theatre's 'Triumph of Love' has great comedy, performances and music 2010
-
The humor is broad, slapsticky and unmemorable -- there isn't one joke or line that leaps to mind as especially witty -- but Carell and Rudd make it work, eliciting steady laughs through the sheer lightness of their beings.
Upwardly mobile: Steve Carell rises above the material in 'Dinner for Schmucks' 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.