1.   But the show grinds to a halt whenever the cardboard characters speak.

2.   Dunst and Hernandez are both smart actors who come at what could have been cardboard characters from unexpected angles.

3.   In contrast, Connery drowns his every pronouncement in Scottish bluster, reducing his cardboard character to a single note.

4.   No one should ever expect Charlie Kaufman to write simple, easily digestible movies with cardboard characters and hackneyed story lines.

5.   So as its central figure, it has only Henry Burton, the cardboard character dreamed up by the author to disguise his identity.

6.   The disappointing blockbuster is undone by an obvious story, cardboard characters and cliche-ridden dialogue.

7.   The movie is a visual stunner whose dreamscape images almost make up for its cardboard characters and B-movie dialogue.

8.   The pilgrims are appropriately defined by their religion, but they were not the drab, humorless cardboard characters that are part of our national myth.

9.   When you consider the second-rate dialogue and the cardboard characters, it was no wonder so many visitors to Bear Valley ended up leaping off stone cliffs.

10.   Where others saw cardboard characters of the urban morality play, Kempton saw complex figures and the frailties behind sometimes fearsome reputations.