Someone cracks wise about Mayor John V. Lindsay's presidential ambition.
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Steve cracks wise about how Diana doesn't follow customs about sex and marriage.
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Michelle prompts Malia to answer the reporter's questions; Barack cracks wise and Sasha seems appalled.
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Deadpool cracks wise, breaks the fourth wall, and disparages the franchise culture that has consumed Hollywood.
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Whales swim by, a dragon grouses, Dolittle's zoo scurries and cracks wise, and so does Downey.
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Even its opening credits self-referentially mock superhero films, and throughout, Reynolds cracks wise about the tropes and plot points so prevalent in the genre.
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Briley jokes around, cracks wise at certain mistakes, and even sings along with the pre-show D.J. set, but he's not an especially intrusive voice.
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He teaches and reminds Diana about her own humanity, cracks wise, and eventually falls in love: Steve is essentially Diana's superhero girlfriend — a superhero girlfriend who just about sneaks off with the entire movie.
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In "The World Has Many Butterflies," that type of young woman — the kind who cracks wise from a crouched position — is now a suburban Houston housewife who has fallen into a world of aspirational child rearing.
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After "Green Lantern," his 113 DC Comics dud, Ryan Reynolds goes in for career rehab as Wade Wilson, a mercenary supervillain who suits up as a superhero and then paints the screen red as he cracks wise as Deadpool.
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The first (and best) in what would become a successful franchise, "The Thin Man" (1934) is Hollywood screwball comedy at its most sophisticated: Everybody looks great in evening wear, cracks wise, and downs staggering amounts of alcohol while keeping their wits about them.
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Reviews were mostly favourable. The New York Timess Christopher Lehmann-Haupt said of Disclosure that it is: > an elaborate provocation of rage in which a thousand fragments of revenge > finally fall into place, like acid rain on wildfire. Meanwhile, Mr. Crichton > also irrelevantly entertains us with a complex vision of the digital future, > complete with cellular phones the size of credit cards, CD-ROM players that > can store 600 books and database environments you can virtually walk around > in with the guidance of a helpful angel who cracks wise. In a review comparing the novel with the film adaptation, Nathan Rabin expressed a negative view: he described Disclosure as "loathsome" and "borderline-unreadable", and inferior to its film version.
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