Sentences with phrase «hokey qualities»

After six films, I've just learned to embrace the hokey qualities for the sake of the overall adventure, and I become absorbed by the rousing confrontations and fantastic battles between good and evil.

At its best the film has the endearingly hokey qualities of a late Eighties straight - to - video romp.

The acting isn't always the best, nor the behavior of the characters at times, but the two leads are entertaining enough to forgive the hokey qualities of rest of the film.

A rousing — and, in light of recent events, a little bittersweet — story of women conquering patriarchy (for a day, anyway), the film, from Little Miss Sunshine directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, has a righteous kick that excuses a lot of its hokier qualities.

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Again, I don't want to take away from any of the twists, but they were just bizarre enough to have a more science fiction / surreal quality to them than a horrific one, but also hokey enough that the film didn't need to take itself too seriously.

The overall execution of the story and some of the reveals take it to a hokey and silly level, which really bring down the quality of the film.

That it succeeds in capturing the essence of the hokey adventure and horror films of the 1930s, I'll grant you, so long as you grant me the fact that its source material isn't exactly quality filmmaking either.

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.