Sentences with phrase «vapid shell of its former self»

The game's barebones content and poorly - executed controls were the epitome of what the long - running Nintendo series had become over the last few years: a shiny but vapid shell of its former self.

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Creator Doug Ellin (1998's «Kissing a Fool») writes and directs this big - screen continuation but has turned it into an unironically vapid, self - indulgent, wheel - spinning shell of its former self with nothing more to tell and with nowhere left to go with these characters, at least not here.