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I am stunned to see the vast majority of commentators describe this great film as "typical," "sentimental," and "melodramatic."
With such sentimental authors like Dickens it is difficult to know when you are criticising the director and when the author, and I find it almost impossible to keep them apart in my evaluation of this mini.
A plastic conflict, created merely for moral purpose, a sentimental, naive way of raising theological and philosophical questions and an easy one dimensional solution at last.
No sentimental drivel to wilt audience interest either.
It is not as sentimental, but very real.
Hollywood is known for churning out a lot of sentimental mush that's supposed to pass for romance.
The script is very funny and director Howard has a wonderful eye for the sentimental and satiric.
Like most sentimental films, they sometimes annoyingly tug at your hart strings.
We were supposed to believe that the little "bot" had some real sentimental value: perhaps true for the crew, but nothing was included in the movie to get the audience to the same place.
This musical-fantasy-nursery-rhyme concoction seems to be a sentimental favourite for lots of people, but it just doesn't stand up.
I personally enjoy watching beautiful love stories and this movie left me feeling mushy and sentimental.
Sad, but sentimental.
A very sentimental, very honest look at adolescence and growing up.
Call me hopelessly sentimental but I actually find this film very touching!
It is so sad and upsetting that some distant relatives could just walk in there and take away everything (furnitures, bird collections with all sentimental meanings) she had shared with her partner for years.
Throw in a few sentimental family scenes, gut-ripping funny back and forth Dialogue between Levy and Jackson, the stereotypical foreign bad guys and a police boss out of save one of her own and you've basically got the entire film.
This coming-of-age, romance, baseball story has every smaltzy, sentimental, semi-mental, feel bad, feel good cliche that ever graced a 50's big studio or Disney flick.
After a variety of sketchy farcical/romantic complications, the movie settles for a sentimental epilogue, and remains unsurprisingly dull.
But it's also witty, well-written and not overly sentimental.
Given its middle aged focus and explicit sexual content, "Never Again" will play best with more mature audiences who can handle vulgar language, absurd comic relief, and still appreciate the sentimental and poignant moments without rationalization.
And while Graham Linehan's sentimental sitcom leanings roped in his surrealist writing partner, Arthur Mathews, to make Father Ted a genuine classic, without Mathews, Linehan is free to indulge in the sub-FRIENDS/Seinfeld sitcom he was always in danger of making.
And since, the world has never forgotten this disgustingly sentimental heap of molly-wash.
A better version of all those other syrupy, sentimental inside music movies.
Otherwise, too long, too sentimental, too unselfconsciously overplayed.
Bill Henderson plays the sentimental and lovable Uncle Clive (whom Jordan described as the "Yoda of Love" at the screening) whose memories of his own true love help Chris make decisions about his own life.
This is an overly sentimental piece of drivel that was made purely to cash in on a traditionally easy theme to make money on.
It's refreshing to see a movie that has very little sentimental value, but where the villains get exactly what they deserve.
And, while Steinbeck was not one to let a sentimental moment pass by, e.g, Lennie's Christ-like innocence, inappropriate super-human strength which inadvertently wreaks havoc resulting in his euthanasia with the same instrument as used for Curley's dog, these scenes are never maudlin.
The movie begins realistically enough but quickly goes downhill with lots of the dialog feeling forced and overly sentimental.
I find it absolutely amazing that the writers always manage to avoid the trap of becoming sentimental or moralizing but always keep a healthy distance.
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