Word: trite
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...dazzling, Technicolored earth. But it bites off too big a hunk and insists on chewing it all. In a clumsy flirtation with the U.S. box office, its makers threw in some boring heavenly discourses on Anglo-American relations (with Canadian-born Raymond Massey as the U.S. spokesman) and some trite philosophizing on everything from the hereafter to the British Empire. These "intellectual" flourishes finally grind even the inoffensive little love story to movie mush...
...Weber Ravel, Strauss, and Brahms is simply too great a dose of Romanticism to be swallowed comfortably in one sitting. Following close on the heels of the "Oberon" Overture, and Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Infanta," the usually brilliant "Till Eulenspiegel" was not setoff effectively and seemed trite rather than amusing. This unintended effect was partially realized by Dr. Koussevitzky's insistence upon attacking the Weber with the bombast and brilliance usually reserved for Wagnor's "Rienzi" or "Die Meistersinger." "Oberon's" poetry and lyricism were largely overlooked. The Strauss was simply more of the same, and while...
...combination of biography and backstage musical, the picture demonstrates conclusively that box-office silk can be made out of dog-eared formulas. It is loud, costly ($2½ million), overlong, occasionally trite, lushly sentimental and pretty as new brass. More important than anything else, it is uncommonly entertaining...
Except for a few realistic, mildly funny bookmaking and gaming-table scenes, all events leading up to the final clinch are trite and tortured. Gamblers will note with satisfaction that the scriptwriters did not give the betting habit too rough a beating. The movie's only discoverable moral: never bet against love...
...Sunday the Herald modestly followed up with a 440-page issue. Bow-tied Publisher Choate was too smart to clutter it with trite messages of congratulation, carried only one-from Harry Truman. The "Boost New England" theme made the kind of Chamber-of-Commerce play that brought in more than enough ads to pay for the jumbo issue...