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Also known as "reviewer-speak", these are cliche phrases that media critics use to describe works. Coming up with original ways to describe multiple things within one same month/week/issue can be hard. On top of that, reviews need to be interesting in addition to informative. That's why critics of all types tend to have an arsenal full of stock terms they can pull out to summarize how they feel about the subject. These could range from pretty basic descriptors to flat out sensationalism. Either way, you can expect to see these phrases uttered more than a few times if you read enough reviews or entertainment-related news reports. Some examples of this are "X on crack" ,"X Meets Y", "best X of the year", "fun for the whole family!" These cliches are often parodied. Reviewer Standard Comparisons is a Sub-Trope. See also Review Ironic Echo, when reviewers can't resist making an obvious Pun on the title or a line from the work to make fun of it. Examples |
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As a book aggregate site, plays this trope straight in its user reviews, except it adopts an entirely different and unique set of cliches due to its web-based format and Millennial-dominated userbase. These show up most often in the negative reviews, and/or reviews for Young Adult (YA) books. The most egregious? "I wanted to like this book. I really did! But..." | |
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Many upcoming artists (in all mediums) are often called "[Place]'s answer to [Similar, but much more famous person or band.]" For example, "Paris, Texas's answer to Metallica." | |
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Those Lacking Spines lampoons the word in literature, in which for about two paragraphs, every incidence of where the word "dark" would be was replaced with outrageous colors, such as "crimson", "sunshine yellow", and "chartreuse". | |
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"I laughed. I cried. It was better than Cats!" Fun fact: This is a Memetic Mutation paraphrased from a 1980s Saturday Night Live skit, in which a hypnotist entranced his audience to recommend his show to others. | |
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"''The Lovely Bones is lovely, and no bones about it!" | |
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In the same vein, if it has anthropomorphic woodland creatures, especially if they're mice, it'll be "perfect for fans of Redwall." This appears to be why later installments in the Warrior Cats series don't even have reviews on the back covers. | |
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Chrontendo, wary of the phrases chronogamers use all too often, made this video, in which he is playing those clichés for laughs. | |
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Dutch example: if a James Bond movie is coming out, expect to read "James maakt het bond."note "Het bont maken" is a Dutch expression loosely meaning "To raise a ruckus". | |
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The game Dark Souls itself has been used so often that bringing it up as a comparison at all is considered a cliche. If a game has a facet of difficulty through learning, backtracking, a dark and disgusting atmosphere, being just plain hard, or any other element from Dark Souls, it will elicit this comparison, followed quickly by groans in the audience. Especially if it's just because of the difficulty: the phrase truly started hitting Discredited Meme status after IGN compared the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, of all things, to Dark Souls solely for being challenging. | |
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Filling reviews with Tumblr gifs. | |
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If the game is lower octane with a focus on campaign, then expect comparisons to Half-Life 2. This is often a compliment. | |
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If it's aimed at young adults and has even the slightest element of fantasy, it'll be perfect for Harry Potter fans, regardless of any actual similarities. Even if it isn't, it's still open to comparison these days. See certain editions of Dragonriders of Pern books, and how for a while every The Dresden Files book had "...as another wizard named Harry" on the front or back (or both). Not as painful since later books came out, but it still leads to misunderstandings. In the same vein, if it has anthropomorphic woodland creatures, especially if they're mice, it'll be "perfect for fans of Redwall." This appears to be why later installments in the Warrior Cats series don't even have reviews on the back covers. |
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Dilbert mocks this when Dogbert starts a film reviewing business, providing the review the filmmaker wants for a price. One man asks what the price is for "Best movie so far this year" for a film coming out in January. | |
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The Dresden Files has also had the same Entertainment Weekly quote on every book in the series, dating back to the very first: | |
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Discworld: The Truth, about the Disc's first newspaper, played with this trope. Albeit about news reporting, not reviews per se. For example, the words rumpus and fracas only appear in certain newspapers, the same way beverages only appear on certain menus. Equal Rites had a foreword reading "This book is not wacky. Only dumb redheads in Fifties sitcoms are wacky. It isn't zany, either." |
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Film reviews of blockbusters often feature "This Year's X": "Star Trek (2009) is this year's Iron Man", for example. "The Next X" is similar, also for people who can't comprehend that something can stand on its own without being compared to something else. | |
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Foamy The Squirrel railed against this during one of his famous rants. | |
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The Batman: Arkham Series was rather infamous for having almost every single review of the games talk about how they "make you feel like Batman". And then, when Spider-Man (PS4) (essentially the Marvel response to the Arkham games) came out, reviewers immediately broke out the exact same wording again to talk about it, to everyone's hilarity. | |
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The "It's Die Hard On An X" line that's popped up in reviews for the past 22 years. | |
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Gross-out and outrageous comedy cartoons featuring two protagonists after 1991 were usually compared (sometimes unfavorably) to The Ren & Stimpy Show. | |
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Equal Rites had a foreword reading "This book is not wacky. Only dumb redheads in Fifties sitcoms are wacky. It isn't zany, either." | |
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"It's a spectacle to see, and you need spectacles to see it...and there's pandemonium on Pandora" for "Avatar''. | |
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The posters for Dumb and Dumber parodied this with fictitious review quotes such as, "It's a movie experience for anyone who goes to see it" and "I laughed til I stopped." | |
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30 Rock: One episode has Pete use the stock acting description to say that Tracy Morgan is phoning it in. Then clarifies that this is Not Hyperbole, he's doing the scene over the phone from his dressing room. In other episodes, Jack provides a quote for the back of Lemon's book: "Lemon numbers among my employees." Liz is also pleased when a magazine describes TGS as "still on." |
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The word "shambolic" is used to describe The Rolling Stones, bands that sound like the Stones, and nothing else in the universe. | |
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If the reviewers find out a bad/average game was backed by Kickstarter or any other similar crowdfunding sites, the game is now "a Kickstarter disaster" regardless of what was going on behind the scenes. | |
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Any film attempting a relatively realistic portrayal of space travel will be compared to Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff (this also often applies to nonfiction books about the early space program.) | |
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The Truth, about the Disc's first newspaper, played with this trope. Albeit about news reporting, not reviews per se. For example, the words rumpus and fracas only appear in certain newspapers, the same way beverages only appear on certain menus. | |
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Many reviewers have taken after Roger Ebert's 'two thumbs up' signature. Sometimes something else will be substituted depending on the movie, ie two paws for Cats & Dogs, or some such. Thankfully, the "two thumbs up" concept is copyrighted, so the current generation won't have to see terrible local critics use it themselves. | |
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One episode of Spin City had Paul assigned to write a review of the Mayor's book. Paul's review ends up consisting entirely of stock phrases he stole from movie reviews, calling the book "a fast-paced thrill ride" and "a spectacle the whole family can enjoy", as well as the line "Stallone is pure adrenaline". | |
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ENN had a segment about a robotic game reviewer that judged everything "compelling", which later became a tagline for the show. | |
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Car magazines, British ones in particular, are fond of praising models with particularly good space utilization by comparing them to the TARDIS. The phrase "fuel-sipping" must always appear somewhere in a write-up of a hybrid or efficient model. |
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If the game has traditional cutscenes and a strong multiplayer element, then expect comparisons to Call of Duty. This is often an insult. | |
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The Wire was so often praised for its "dickensian" storytelling that by the fifth season, they were lampshading it in dialogue among clueless journalists. | |
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"When it comes to oddball titles, The Men Who Stare at Goats is certainly hard to bleat." | |
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If the novel accurately captures a teen's voice, expect the phrase "like Holden Caulfield" to pop up somewhere. | |
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League of Legends developers Riot Games invented the term Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) to describe their game because they were sick and tired of everyone referring to the genre as a DotA Clone. | |
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"Quirky RPG" is a phrase often found in the company of Mother inspired games, usually either referring to an outlandish way of handling RPG Elements or equally as outlandish characters. | |
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"It's like South Park in/on/with X" was and still is very popular to describe any very "mature" bit of western animation that includes loads of swearing or adult situations. It used to be that any very "mature" show that was Vulgar Humor or Refuge in Audacity was compared to The Simpsons, but this has been phased out with the advent of much more outrageous cartoon shows. Adding onto this, any adult cartoon without gratuitous swearing, sex, or violence will be lauded as a breath of fresh air. |
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Even if it isn't, it's still open to comparison these days. See certain editions of Dragonriders of Pern books, and how for a while every The Dresden Files book had "...as another wizard named Harry" on the front or back (or both). Not as painful since later books came out, but it still leads to misunderstandings. | |
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Historians/biographers, and even the man himself, have noticed that starting with 1993's Black Tie White Noise, his first solo album of The '90s, critics love to use some variant on the phrase "his best album since Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" when reviewing his newest release. The follow-up to Scary Monsters, Let's Dance, was a massive commercial success but a huge Contested Sequel, the two albums after it were also successful but are widely considered Bowie's worst albums (even by Bowie himself), and the two albums he made with Tin Machine are very divisive. Consequently, Scary Monsters was held up as Bowie's last great album for many years. | |
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Pick a cartoon made after 2012 with supernatural and/or mystery elements. Now see how many reviews of that cartoon compare it to Gravity Falls. | |
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