Sentences with phrase «hokey plot»

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Amy Irving stars as a widowed English teacher wooed by a suave lawyer (Antonio Fagundes), and there are other lovelorns all loose ly connected by friendships who figure in the plot's stubbornly hokey romantic turns.

Masters of the Universe is, by and large, a weak fantasy / action film, full of leaden plotting, bad acting, and hokey characterizations that will most likely please no one but the most forgiving fans of the He - Man mythos.

The backstory is so unnecessary in Rodriguez» mind that there's a hilarious gag involving a missing reel that happens at the climax of an appropriately hokey sex scene and bypasses key plot points.

The acting still reeks, the visual design is hokey, and the plot drags.

However, I found it to be mildly entertaining despite the hokey sentimentality and contrived plot devices.

All of these efforts are nearly undone by comic book - style writing, with hokey one - dimensional characters and cliché after cliché in the plot.

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.

Sure, it sounds hokey, but it does pave the way for one of the movie's best qualities: James Woods again lends voice to a Disney villain as Benedict, the leader of the enigmatic evil plot.

The plot here — Geena Davis's amnesiac housewife discovers that she used to be a CIA assassin — may be hokey, but when the one - liners are this perfect, it matters not.