Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...empty stomach, stuffed with a vast array of reheated gimmicks from other movies but still lacking a satisfying main course. This latest Hollywood release stars Dudley Moore as another New York psychiatrist who falls in love with his lovely neurotic patient (Elizabeth McGovern) to the accompaniment of innumerable cute gimmicky scenes. In both content and style, the material proves merely a rehash of past comedies, romantic comedies, and comedies about psychiatry...
...spirit is fun; the combination of some devastatingly arch lyrics and beautiful instrumentials recommends itself as music for repeated listening. Studying to its insistently noticeable backdrop is less likely Red All Over has some interesting questions to ask, and its purpose is not to disappoint with quick, cute answers...
...when Reynolds trades in his speedboats 'n'-shotguns for those Modern Relationships with Jill Clayburgh and company that his cuteness undermines him. His easygoing charm works fine when crashing through state trooper roadblocks, but in the already cute genre of romantic comedy, it becomes superfluous and cloying. And with the addition of Goldie Hawn's aggressive cuddlyness. Best Friends is positively overloaded...
...embark upon an uncomfortable honeymoon train rides to visit their parents back East. The audience is served up a platter of cute little vignettes of the trip (most of which are featured in the previews). This fluff is washed down by the soundtrack's particularly insipid cocktail of tinkling piano chords that bob around like ice cubes in a wash of syrupy strings...
...others wish, let them march in infinitely complex (but usually boring) formations. Let others continue to allow the one hundred odd musicians to languish on the field while someone on the PA system, in a nauseatingly self-satisfied tone of voice, makes what are supposedly 'cute' remarks but are in fact a series of solid lead balloons, so tiresome that soon no one listens at all. You have a great opportunity to revivify the whole scene and provoke once again the comment in the New Yorker 'the best in the business.' All it takes is two qualities supposedly often present...