Sentences with phrase «become schmaltzy»

The main characters could've become one - dimensional and the hardships they face could've easily become schmaltzy enterprises that demand tears from the audience.

The main characters could've become one - dimensional and the hardships they face could've easily become schmaltzy enterprises that demand tears from...

The incredibly funny comedy at work in this movie helps the film balance the sweet, preventing it from becoming schmaltzy or inauthentic.

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I agree with your other points and the risk of the people thing becoming crass and schmaltzy.

This show has turned into utter bollocks, the first two seasons were very good and paced really well, but this missing baby storyline is a joke, the characters have become overly sentimental and schmaltzy which is difficult to reconcile with the uncompromising action a show of this nature needs.

Hoffman assembles a classy crew of veteran performers (including Michael Gambon hamming it up as the egotistical, extravagant benefit director) to keep this movie from becoming the clichéd and schmaltzy affair you worry it might become, especially in its cloyingly cute first half.