Hidden somewhere deep in these two gushy hours of melodrama lie the makings of a vaguely watchable film. |
Both films are based on the juxtaposition of farce and melodrama and the comedy that arises from role-playing and role-switching. |
By giving her a love interest, the movie fits into more traditional representations of women in the filmic genre of the woman's melodrama. |
Instinctive, impulsive melodies meet melancholia and melodrama in gay tales of arch commentary and frank observation. |
It invites us to join the melodrama, keying our responses to the silly excess of the movie itself. |
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. |