| Only the writers get the virtual slap on the wrist for artificially inserting too much melodrama into a story that should have been a comic romp. |
| It invites us to join the melodrama, keying our responses to the silly excess of the movie itself. |
| The most important point to make is that the aesthete and intellectual showed not the least reservation with flagrant melodrama. |
| Hidden somewhere deep in these two gushy hours of melodrama lie the makings of a vaguely watchable film. |
| There is a plot, and it is brilliant, with the urgent melodrama that exercises the neglected readerly muscles. |
| She's on SUCH a higher level than everybody else that it's really just melodrama while she MacGyvers another solution to the week's problem. |
