hackneyed, unoriginal, cliched, trite, rote, melodramatic, bland, unimaginative, sappy, cheesy, hokey, overfamiliar, simplistic, maudlin, banal, mawkish, predictable, uninteresting, corny, unentertaining, vapid, slapdash, overlong, uninventive, repetitious, monotonous, saccharine, pulpier, schlocky, stagy, boring, overwrought, cloying, preachy, uninspired, treacly, pretentious, stagey, unchallenging, overdetermined, stale, unfunny, vacuous, stilted, insipid, escapist, uncreative, schmaltzy, repetitive, cookie cutter, scripted, turgid, dull, shopworn, unmemorable, didactic, reductive, unsatisfying, pedantic, unadventurous, draggy, unaffecting, talky, perfunctory, campy, unamusing, convoluted, formalistic, tedious, expository, tiresome, crass, hacky, scattershot, superficial, cutesy, artless, overproduced, unexciting, glib, lowbrow, obtuse, lunkheaded, leaden, slapstick, facile, mindless, jokey, unenjoyable, puerile, catchy, tricksy, dopier, silly, wearisome, sophomoric, ponderous, brainless, bathetic, amateurish, romcom, soppy, imagistic, aphoristic, gnomic, hymnic, allusive, novelistic, stereotyped, narrative, ungrammatical, metaphorical, figurative, declarative, paratactic, simple, comprehensible, cryptic, enigmatic, ideographic

stereotype

conventional