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Example sentences for: campy

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No, worse than awful: desperate" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Instead of going for the tongue-in-cheek, campy horror style so popular of late, director Jan De Bont ( Speed ) relies on old-fashioned things-that-go-bump-in-the-night scares.
Another campy teen horror flick.
Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.
Some critics bemoan Starship 's grotesque violence and glorification of a "happily fascist world" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Others consider it a witty sendup of action movies, with fabulous special effects and campy characters: "a cheerfully lobotomized, always watchable experience" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the official Starship Troopers site.)
South Park abounds in screamingly campy parodies, from the opening ensemble to Terrance and Phillip's peppy rap duet "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle-Fucker" to the principal's exhortation to substitute "bum," "poo," and the phlegmatic "M'kay" for, respectively, "ass," "shit," and "fuck" while leading a Busby Berkeley-ish dance line.