The facts, whatever they may be, have been beaten into a formulaic, feel-good movie, riddled with plot holes, that has the shape of a ready-made musical.

Sify noted "Simha is out and out a formulaic movie.

Most of his movies have a female protagonist; a breakaway style from the formulaic movies that relegate female lead characters to song and dance numbers.

PLUSES - The formulaic movie is more entertaining than it deserves to be.

The critical consensus was "An attractive Jessica Alba and energetic dance numbers provide some lift to this corny and formulaic movie".

The flow of formulaic movies and assembly-line soundtracks rolled on.

"We Are Marshall" is the kind of crassly formulaic movie in which everything hinges on a single play in the final seconds of a big football game.

"This is not your ordinary, formulaic movie," he points out, unnecessarily.

He had been frustrated creatively by the formulaic movies and the conventional soundtrack music he recorded for them.

Binder argued that the special was an opportunity to re-establish the singer's reputation after years of formulaic movies and recordings of variable quality.