Sentence examples for formulaic plot from inspiring English sources

Smaller children get the "Madagascar" movies, in which urbane penguins drop pop-culture jokes into formulaic plot.

The film, writes Stephen Holden, "gives character development a distant back seat" to the "mechanics of its formulaic plot".

More arresting than the generally formulaic plot are the grimly poetic images scattered throughout, like flashes of submerged lives that are never quite reeled in.

There's nothing like a little divine intervention at the right moment to re-energize a weary prizefighter and make the gears of a formulaic plot click into place.

Mankiewicz was then assigned to direct Somewhere in the Night (1946), a passable film noir that suffered somewhat from uncharismatic leads John Hodiak and Nancy Guild and from its complicated but formulaic plot.

As much as these wonderful actors invest their performances with psychological nuance, their efforts go mostly for naught in a movie that gives character development a distant back seat to the grinding mechanics of its formulaic plot.

As the seasons have passed, its lapses into preachiness and formulaic plotting have increased.

Formulaic plots + effective cast "dynamic" + sassenach-friendly depiction of That Scotland = The McBill.

It's easier to start with what it probably isn't, and that's the formulaic plots.

She starred primarily in musicals with formulaic plots that embraced her wholesome, good-natured screen image and featured athletic dance numbers which showed off her shapely legs.

He also eschews easy answers and formulaic plotting; where a hundred other writers would have Starlight triumph over her enemies, her victories are on a more profound and personal level, and not without tragedy.