Word: triteness
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Lampy's recent reprint issue shows clearly that the main faults of his present writing have been present for a good many years: the humor is mostly situational and the situations are all trite...
...idle Harvard undergraduates to take callow pen in hand and produce--Look, Everybody!--a Treatise. Students with serious qualms about the furtherance of Joint Instruction might do better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about so trivial a matter produced the same effect...
...plot, however, is trite; it would be almost impossible to have original sequences in such a shopworn framework. You know perfectly well what will happen when the family buys a dog that Gilbreth disapproves of, and what the cute little remarks are going to be when mother has her twelfth baby. You can easily sense each time the "cheaper by the dozen" gag is coming up. Only Gilbreth's time studies redeem the movie from being completely hackneyed, and they aren't enough to make it really amusing. "Cheaper by the Dozen" is just a quantitative variation on the "Life...
...story is too trite to be redeemed by a psychological perspective. The narration of the psychiatrist's downfall, "the final triumph of matter over mind," is generally handled with restraint and conviction by Mr. Coward, but too many people in the cast do and say the expected things at the expected time...
This unabashedly tearful and trite film is the work of several talented people. It is based on a New Yorker short story entitled "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." ("Poor, little Uncle Wiggily," says Miss Hayward, speaking of herself, "always trying to be helpful and always getting hurt.") The director is Mark Robson who directed "Champion" and "Home of the Brave." Miss Hayward, as well as Robert Keith, who plays her weary-wise father, are quite satisfactory in their roles. I doubt that Miss Hayward is deserving of an "Oscar" for this film, but as unwed mothers and alcoholies have won over...