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The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert De Niro plays Walt Koontz, an almost parodistically macho security guard, who is felled by a stroke as he tries to prevent a robbery in his New York City apartment building.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people who dance attendance on him are all parodistically based on people who surrounded Coward when he was at the height of his fame in prewar London.

From Time Magazine Archive