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Culturebox's first thought on reading Diana: In Search of Herself , Sally Bedell Smith's deliriously mean-spirited (though boringly written) catalog of all the ways the late fairy-tale princess turns out to have been troubled, trite, and exasperating, is that the British public didn't get its money's worth from the girl.
Critics complain about the trite story line--Roberts plays a young woman who has a habit of leaving her grooms waiting at the altar--and the lack of chemistry between the stars.
Disappointed reviewers rate the Spielberg-Katzenberg-Geffen studio's debut just "a notch better than the average predictable action thriller" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Stars George Clooney and Nicole Kidman are said to be perfectly likable but utterly humorless, and the nuclear-terrorism story line is called suspenseful but trite.
In the New Republic , James Wood calls Toni Morrison's Paradise trite and sentimental: "It forces magic and pure rhapsodies on its characters like a demented anesthetist bullying patients with laughing gas."
The actors are unable to compensate for one-dimensional characters, trite dialogue, and an overabundance of explosions.