Word: triteness
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...form and style of Bean are remarkably generic and trite. However, Atkinson's antics, though truncated, make it barely watchable. When he is by himself and allowed to perform up to his usual levels, the audience can almost forgive the staleness of his vehicle. Scenes including those wherein he monkeys in front of mirrors, goes on secret undercover missions of silliness and gets himself arrested in an airport simply for being Beanish are the film's only redeeming moments. Unfortunately, the contrived sappiness of the plot takes what should have been divinely inspired idiocy and makes it merely dumb...
...Trite or touching, lang's message wasn't lost on her audience members, who left decidedly more mellow than when they had entered. lang's metaphors had also come full circle by the conclusion of the evening, and no longer evoked the same images of mystery and innuendo. In one of her last songs of the evening, "The Air that I Breathe," she instead described the gentleness of a longer relationship...
Unfortunately, a little less innovation on the technical side and more musical craft would go a long way. In fact, any number of improvements would--less inane lyrics, for example. Knox not only commits the traditional (and acceptable) pop crime of writing terrible, trite lyrics, he structures his songs (all 14 of them) such as to place special emphasis on his meager voice and lyrics. The spare arrangements simply highlight the artist's severe limitations as a vocalist and lyricist...
...like lamb skin imported from the Persia/follow my excursion until you feelin' the new revised version." Simultaneously silly and ferocious, Busta takes lyrical risks unlike many rappers today. Only on "Get High Tonight," another tired rap ode to marijuana, does Busta the lyricist fall flat. His rhymes are so trite and delivery so weak that not even a chorus built on K.C. and the Sunshine Band's "Get Down Tonight" can save...
...Shlemiel the First" is in fact meant to be novelty, and little else. Wives battle their husbands; men cross-dress; pickles and common Yiddish expressions are tossed around as stage gags. The trite phrases and cliched idioms that dominate prove poor substitutes for content. The company is forced to play out their roles with over-enthusiastic and sometimes spastic fervency...