Satirize

In their attempt to satirize teen horrors (which they do superbly), director and the rest of the crew actually make one of the sub-genre’s most effective features.

With some of the most creatively violent choreographed fight scenes in film history, an array of larger-than-life characters, and the ability to satirize and subvert classic tropes, the film breathed new life into a seemingly tired genre.

In the course of its knotty, ultimately pointless plot, this underrated film managed to satirize gentrification whilst parodying ghost movies, werewolf films, and cop flicks—an impressive feat by any measure.

Colbert is an executive producer for a new CBS All Access series, “Tooning Out the News,” in which animated characters satirize the news.

Intended to satirize the sublimated yet overwhelming Aryanness of He-Man, it's how I learned that there are people on the internet making light of things who get in touch with you to make heavy plans if they think you're one of them.

It's worth noting that Guest himself dislikes the term, given he doesn’t want to ‘mock’ his eccentric subjects so much as gently satirize extreme sub-cultures and communities.

And it doesn’t mean you can’t satirize.

To the extent that the movie’s almost comically decadent style is an attempt to satirize these privileges, such efforts are undermined by its script.

Had Feig used his comedic skills to satirize the tropes and make fun of their predictability, the plot twists would probably feel more palatable.

Fredric Brown employed this subgenre to satirize the science fiction pulps and their adolescent readers—and fears of foreign invasion—in the classic What Mad Universe (1949).

However, Bernini was a devout Catholic and was not attempting to satirize the experience of a chaste nun.

It is stated again and again that he wrote it in order to satirize the chivalric romance and to challenge the popularity of a form of literature that had been a favourite of the general public for more than a century.

Later, the location of most of the action moved to Dilbert's workplace and the strip started to satirize technology, workplace, and company issues.

Numerous writers have used the Judge System to satirize contemporary politics.

The celebration highlight is a parade of creatively decorated streetcars that satirize society and politics.

The Cobhams It is not clear, however, if Shakespeare characterized Falstaff as he did for dramatic purposes, or because of a specific desire to satirize Oldcastle or the Cobhams.

The former focused on insulting Møller's integrity while the latter was a directed assault on The Corsair, in which Kierkegaard, after criticizing the journalistic quality and reputation of the paper, openly asked The Corsair to satirize him.

The odd result is that the English “satire” comes from the Latin satura; but "satirize", "satiric", etc., are of Greek origin.