Word: trite
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...love story, it is trite. There are two husband-wife relationships and one boy-girl combination which eventually ripens into marriage. None of them boasts any new twists, but they are well-executed repetitions of the standard formula, if you go for that sort of stuff...
...measurement of a successful publication is its approximation to the true and the good . . . and a publication which . . . caricatures truth by pretending all truths are not really complex but simple and simply digested ... is only effective in spreading the trite and the superficial...
Winchell is a member of a minority group, and therefore shouldn't sound off about being the "foremost champion of human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims...
...other stars--Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor, and Audrey Totter--perform their bit parts adequately and usually evoke additional pathos. But the only tears really worth shedding are for Wald and Krasna, who wasted so much talent on such an incredibly trite plot...
Even when Guinness is not occupying the center of the screen, there is virtually no letdown. There is no need to mention names, but the supporting players are all excellent. The situation is a trite one basically, but the decorations are what counts, and they are embellished to perfection. There is a police car chase in the best manner of W.C. Fields, a well-executed double-take ending, and a wealth of subtle English mannerisms that are consistently delightful...