Sentences with phrase «mawkishness in»

There's no place for mawkishness in a film like this; such elements might have worked had the movie claimed to be a realistic portrayal of young adults, but when you have a character as outrageous as Stifler, that's clearly not the case.

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But the fragmented storytelling and oozing mawkishness so wildly out of place in a movie about monsters eating people signals the death rattle for the project.

It's a little reactionary in a kind of «Forrest Gump» - y sort of way — the moral runs that it's better to be decent than brilliant, happy than successful — but the film is well - meaning and the performances from a stellar cast (Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley's accent, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen, Laura Linney, William H Macy all show up) mostly walk the right side of mawkishness.

Worse than that is when McCarten tries for mawkishness, as in a sequence of Churchill communing with the common man.

while the overt emotionality of an episode such as Vincent and the Doctor (in which the Doctor meets up with Vincent van Gogh to battle a space monster) may tie into the show's larger mythos however veers into mawkishness.

It jokes (thankfully without mocking, although it's a fine line) and condescends, with a finale that is inevitable in its mawkishness and bad taste.

It's endearing in its mawkishness, and the storybook nature of its narrative is of the same quality you'd find on a child's bedside table, but it isn't a satisfying game to play despite the contrivances it makes in an attempt to fool you into thinking it is.