But after 90 minutes of cursing and predictable scenarios that try so hard to be outrageous, we end up with precisely
the sappy ending we expect.
But
the sappy ending doesn't fit with what we've witnessed for most of the previous hour and 45 minutes, and shatters any lasting impact this story may have provided.
Not exact matches
The person who cared enough to scroll all the way to the
end of my
sappy, rambling post.
A romantic side story,
sappy backgrounds for everyone on the mission, carnivorous creatures, an unambiguous
ending; exactly what about this movie do critics and early - viewers think is so incredibly high above us that only 1 % will be able to grasp it?
The roll call of perversions and adolescent sex gags are more creepy than kooky and the sudden shift to triumphant romantic sincerity at the climax rings as false as this film's
sappy (sorry, happy)
ending.
Credit goes to Padilha for preventing this standard happy -
ending - friendly hero arc from getting too overly
sappy in execution, but try as he might to mask it, the movie is clearly striving for a sentimental ideal.
But the score, much like the film, has this kind of old Hollywood movie making feel to it, and though it gets a bit
sappy near the
end, it's still filled with a lot of tension.
For a few minutes toward the
end of the second act, Grudge Match starts to get a little
sappy.
The film gets a little too
sappy near the
end with Bruce trying to win back Grace and coming to have a grand revelation.
The
ending was also too
sappy.
I'm the type of person who has an extremely hard shell, but man do I love romance, a happy
ending and those
sappy love lines like «You complete me.»
As it is, screen legend Eva Marie Saint — one of Hitchcock's «icy» blonds — makes a stunning appearance near the film's
end, only to be stranded in its dead,
sappy finale and tundra of miscalculations; these include a math - challenged chronology which would make her character about 107 years old.
We totally buy the charming snake oil salesman elements of Flo's character, and even when the movie turns
sappy at the
end, he lends the piece a sense of dignity.
Combining warmth and genuine pain without resorting to a
sappy or contrived
ending is no longer anything new in the independent film scene but it is always welcome to see it done as well as it is done in Little Miss Sunshine.
Like many a past family sitcom, this one is not afraid to throw a moral in the
end and get a little
sappy.
Instead the film is a bit to
sappy in the
end.