Sentences with phrase «too hokey»

I don't know if Type - 0's source material was too hokey to begin with or if there just wasn't enough time to make it all sound natural, but the dialogue that builds its narrative is beset by its off - kilter delivery (though the original Japanese language voice track is available).

It's perhaps a commentary on the lengths to which a teenager will go to feel some sense of normalcy in high school, but the screenplay's depiction of those concerns feels far too hokey for it to have any impact (Her dad, played by Ryan Phillippe, embarrasses her in his self - employed garbage - hoarding, and the there's not a single interaction among the teenage characters that comes across as legitimate).

Not exact matches

Today, too many of us roll our eyes at evangelism strategies, calling them hokey and ineffective, and, instead of coming up with other evangelism strategies, we just don't evangelize.

The show is too diffuse, hokey and self - consciously portentous to suggest suspenseful possibility.

Mr Johnson is so hokey here too, of course he's not meant to be anything else really but Jesus!

If that sounds too brittle a dramatic core, Berg tempers the spartan ideal with some pretty hokey but probably authentic touches: the soldiers quote Ron Burgundy, bellyache about domestic chores back home, Skype their families and, in a scene that is later echoed darkly, argue over whether to shave off a comrade's eyebrows as a forfeit.

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.

Previously, it was a few too - hokey moments that detracted, while here, it's that the story feels just a little too forced.

Alfred Molina plays a far dopier role as an Afghan politician somewhat obsessed with Fey's character, but that whole storyline is so jokey (and hokey) it's hard to take it too seriously.

Sure, it's not an award - winning story by any means, but provided you don't take it too seriously, which the slightly hokey voice acting helps to ensure, then you shouldn't have a problem with it.

There are several proxies, used in almost every reconstruction, that have been demonstrated to be highly suspect, but can't be removed without making the handle of the hokey stick look too much like the blade.