Sentence examples for a flimsy plot from inspiring English sources

But the play is simply too long, its score too weighty for such thin characters and a flimsy plot.

Meryl Streep is a revelation as the hotel owner with a rock'n'roll past who, with soon-to-be-wed daughter Amanda Seyfried, tries to figure out which of her three exes (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard) is the girl's father: a flimsy plot, but the name of the game is the succession of Abba hits that the stars throw themselves into: a stellar karaoke session, really.

When "Footloose" originally came out in 1984, it was a dance movie with a flimsy plot about a town that bans public dancing and the young rebels that see a cause to resist.

Even aside from the obvious continuations – Ecto-1 the car, Slimer, the cameos from the original's stars – the former film's structure is all but cut and pasted into the new version, but with a flimsier plot.

This is a pretty flimsy plot for a motion picture, but flimsy plots were a central feature in new wave films.

The Roman flagship store plays a prominent role in the film (I won't ruin the flimsy plot), and the label's menswear frequently flurries into the flamboyance a peacock such as Mr Zoolander craves.

Flimsy plot, but the name of the game is the succession of Abba hits that the stars throw themselves into.

Although clearly not intended to be taken entirely seriously, the lofty opening premise collapses under the flimsy plot that follows.

This extremely flimsy plot turn allows Mitch to stay in his house, and lets the stars party as if it were 1999.

To chart the differences between "Transporter 3" and its two predecessors is as pointless as trying to parse its flimsy plot.

"'SR P2' tried to clear up this flimsy plot point from 'P1' during the opening 'Bond villain' like speech from Drake," the Cinema Blend writer iterated, "where he proclaims in a Thank You For Smoking esque throwaway line that Lana was the perfect and only candidate for the project".