"trite plot" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a narrative or storyline that has been used many times before and as such, is unoriginal and boring. For example, "The movie was forgettable—it had a trite plot and terrible dialogue."
While the cool kids were out smoking cigarettes and tongue kissing, I was in front of the TV, with a sleeve of Oreos, absorbed in trite plots of short-lived sitcoms.
Apart from the implied slap in the face to those Ocean's 11 films, for which he surely received close to $15m, his ungracious remark ignores some basic tenets of Old Hollywood: that the true star was always bigger than the picture; that, no matter how trite the plot, audiences went to see the star anyway, and that's what made him/her worth $15m to the studios.
The plot was trite, more an extended greeting card than a story.
The plot seems trite today, and Diaghilev, an anti-Communist, recast the ballet, Dr. Morrison said, changing Prokofiev's original intent.
That, and Lee's unfortunate weakness for trite bromides and pat plot resolutions.
Some praised her characterization of the couple, applauding their emotional depth; others criticized her writing style as melodramatic and the plot as emotionally trite.
Holly has a conventional voice that tends to point up the more trite and facile elements of the plot, but Jack's wisely naïve insights give the story a fairy-tale charm.
They further stated that while the game's characters seemed unlikable and that the plot felt "predictable or trite", they felt the game was still more sophisticated than most games at the time, giving the game a score of 8.5.
Today, 191 years after its premiere, its plot is less trendy than trite.
Critics blasted "Step Up" for being a "trite teen romance" that had "too little plot and not enough dancing".
