maudlin, melodramatic, treacly, sappy, saccharine, cloying, schmaltzy, tearjerking, bathetic, overwrought, hackneyed, trite, cliched, soppy, twee, lachrymose, unaffecting, overlong, overfamiliar, stagey, melancholy, formulaic, weepy, banal, elegiac, syrupy, poignant, pretentious, hokey, preachy, corny, cheesy, leaden, stagy, lugubrious, histrionic, drippy, sententious, cringeworthy, melancholic, revelatory, sentimental, parodic, pedantic, cutesy, turgid, overdetermined, talky, dolorous, wistful, gushy, hagiographic, unamusing, didactic, unenlightening, artless, droll, unheroic, slapstick, amusing, tragicomic, reductive, florid, mordant, morose, solipsistic, lunkheaded, platitudinous, jingoistic, endearing, vacuous, poetic, heartrending, rebarbative, ponderous, overdramatic, portentous, hitchcockian, incantatory, reverential, campy, risible, crass, exhortatory, nabokovian, puerile, tragi, pantomimic, glib, unfunny, heartfelt, unpoetic, unentertaining, mournful, comical, insipid, plangent, grandiloquent, authorial, vapid, filmic, hummable, funny, humorous, lighthearted, mirthful, sweeter, bawdy, folksy, pamby, pathetic, tenderest, bittersweet

drippily, mawkishly

emotional, mushy, schmalzy, slushy