Word: insipid
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...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...
Thus, such lines, one imagines, would strike most Jews as simply insipid...
...people behind this show, Executive Producer Bruce Paltrow and a squad of four writer-producer-directors, want to tap into the vein of familiar everyday crisis that fuels all melodrama. What often sends them wide of the mark is a penchant for insipid shock value (a make-out scene in a morgue) and a sentimental streak as wide as an emergency ward. When James Coco and Doris Roberts appeared last week as two street derelicts, they seemed to bring everything in their ragtag baggage but a violin and a cup. Roberts, facing the amputation of both feet because her frozen...
...successful writer: sticking with his old and reliable topics. His career has been built upon an insightful and humorous look at the oddities of American families and relationships, and this has become a comfortable niche to wallow in After a while, however, it makes for a rather boring and insipid film experience...
Newman has greater success with his portrayal of Gallagher, somehow creating a believable, sympathetic character out of a tough-but-sensitive, intelligent longshoreman, the honest son of a Mafia biggie. Blue eyes flashing, he powers the otherwise insipid film through the inevitable plot twists and romantic interludes. If he is unable to give the movie a focus, at least he gives us something to watch...