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I found it overly sentimental and the acting was below par.
If schmaltzy, sentimental, and "cute" appeal to you, you'll love it.
I rented this film to see what might be a bloody, non stop action movie and got this overly sentimental and super cheap low budget action-drama that makes Kickboxer look like Die Hard.
The acting is horrid and the music is some overly sentimental Frank Stallone sounding song that would make you sick.
With this argument, the somehow Amelie-like atmosphere and the sentimental music, I didn't expect but a moralistic disgusting movie.
The story is completely unbelievable of course, and did not succeed to convince me either in the comic or in the sentimental register.
Over-simplified drama verging on soap opera, with a role for MacLaine that is by turns overly 'colorful' and embarrassingly sentimental (her drunken belting on "After You've Gone" is however the film's highlight, and is expertly handled).
Rewriting a movie as bland and sentimental as "Heaven Can Wait" only shows that Rock's eye was on the box-office (this was strictly a corporate move organized by the most mercenary of Hollywood players).
The Land of Plenty seals the coffin, I'm afraid, by being a vastly unimaginative, obviously sentimental and cliché'd film.
The main problem seems to be the irreconcilable difference between Garry Marshall's sentimental direction and Mark Andrus' dark, rather confusing screenplay.
I know how sentimental I sound and I promise I'm not usually like that.
But the rest of us, who love a good sentimental and emotional story that is a lock to get you crying..enjoy!
I liked the way the filmmaker approached this woman's life, never sentimental, never too much - just enough to hook us in, but not enough to bog down.
"Holly" is an issue-driven film, but it is neither manipulative nor overly sentimental.
A sentimental story with a sentimental sound track.
I enjoyed the relationship between the leads, not overly sentimental but romantic enough to keep the interest going.
Before Sunrise is certainly not the typical sentimental 'Hollywood romance', which is another aspect that puts this film leagues ahead of the pretenders.
It will break your heart not because it's over sentimental but because you will truly feel every emotion these characters go through.
Nostalgic in the fact that it looks back at the darker corner of yesteryear Hollywood, sentimental in its treatment of the director (down to the haunting music), this documentary is an absolute must-see for anyone who loves the director who so failed in his day.
The art is totally amazing and the soundtrack, which is reused many times after this, (im not sure if this was the first time i heard it) and evokes in me the most emotional sentimental response of any movie soundtrack.
This is a wonderful film -- deeply moving without being sentimental.
It would be very easy to write it off as being too sentimental, but that is the sentiments this type of a movie is trying to achieve.
It's worth watching for kids and even sentimental adults like myself.
The plot is a bit predictable and a bit too sentimental for me but well worth the time to view for the heroism, humanity, and history portrayed.
A person, against all of the odds, won't give up until they accomplish their goals that they set for some sentimental reason many years ago.
Yes, I'm sentimental & schmaltzy!!
The old gent was not sentimental and rarely watched his own films, but in 1972 he was persuaded to attend a Los Angeles museum screening of SHOW PEOPLE, the late silent feature in which he co-starred with Marion Davies.
All in all, I love this movie; it's perfect for a gooey, sentimental girls' night.
These twenty episodes made me relive the impressions I had collected in Paris in a heart-warming manner without drifting off into kitsch or sentimental schmaltz.
This seminal work captures underground and underclass (i.e."underserved) black and Latin gay culture and community like no other work before or since, including all the sentimental Harlem Rennaissance gay retrospectives and renderings.
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