broad comedy

Sure, it’s broad comedy, but that shouldn’t preclude sharpening the characters to better sweep us along on their nutty journey.

I wondered about the suitability of McDonald’s vocal style and questioned her comfort level with broad comedy.

Gleefully undoing the happily ever after of the series and, in turn, adding a complicated relationship between Betty and her fashion designer-in-the-making daughter, this return to the hallways of Ecomoda keeps the broad comedy of the OG series intact while ushering in Betty into the brave new feminist world of the 21st century.

Highlighting her dramatic chops against broad comedy, “Palm Royale’s” tricky tone allowed Wiig to take big swings, something she did co-writing and starring in “Bridesmaids,” and something she does in life.

He shines a similarly flattering spotlight on Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively here, though with a surprising genre shift, eschewing the broad comedy of his earlier work for this stylish, semi-Sapphic neo-noir thriller.