Their collaboration was wildly successful, but would prove to be the last stand for the director-driven, high-concept comedy.

Writing in The Times, Vincent Canby called this film "a high-concept comedy with a terminally low laugh content."

Even with a good track record, a producer would have to do a lot of dancing to sell" a high-concept comedy.

The only guaranteed return on an investment in the movie business is special-effects movies or high-concept comedies.

- but that the plot suggests high-concept comedy: a former SS officer (the titular spud) is captured by the owner of a Queens hair salon.

This is a high-concept comedy, though, and none of the jokes are forced, which makes "Meet the Parents" a singular achievement.

"HELLO AGAIN" is a high-concept comedy with a terminally low laugh content.

Joe Leydon of Variety called it "a provocative, complex and surprisingly anti-nostalgic parable wrapped in the beguiling guise of a commercial high-concept comedy."

But then an Immigration and Naturalization Service investigation forces the couple actually to live together and act married, cause enough for "airy, high-concept comedy" (Janet Maslin).

Eddie Murphy had been trapped in a series of stultifying high-concept comedies...now there he was, farting his way through the hugely successful Nutty Professor.