A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.

一段灰暗而感伤的情节慢慢展开，最后是一个不可避免的幼稚可笑的结局。

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Beneath the sentimental psychobabble, there's a likable movie trying to get out.

在多愁善感的心理呓语背后，有个可爱的电影试图破茧而出。

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Whenever famous actresses get together to make a "woman's film" you can bet on an overload of sentimental mush.

无论什么时候，只要著名女演员们聚在一起演绎一部“女性题材电影”，那毫无疑问里面准是一堆多愁善感的故事。

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In fact,director Mike Mitchell acknowledges that the 1946 sentimental classic "It's A Wonderful Life" is a main inspiration for "Shrek Forever After."

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Ads made it look more like a sentimental film a la The Bucket List than a comedy.

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The prize for the earliest picture goes to Benjamin West's "The Golden Age" (1776), a sentimental portrait of a mother and her sleeping child.

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This is a sentimental wallow of a picture, a glossy swan song that finds New York's perennial good-time gals in danger of turning into the ladies who lunch.

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