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* One of major criticisms put towards ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' was that the story just rehashes the basic plot formula seen in the show's adventure arcs with more typical fantasy adventure cliches. A villain appears in Equestria who easily defeats the ruling princesses and forces Twilight and her friends to search for a way to defeat them while meeting stock character archetypes in standard fantasy settings, like a cynical rogue with a hidden heart of gold in WretchedHive, a [[ShelteredAristocrat sheltered princess]] in a HiddenElfVillage, and a villainous second-in-command with a tragic past.
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* The two animated ''Pelle Politibil'' movies; from a baby bird seperated from his mother the heroes decide to take care of to bad guys trying to destroy a dam the heroes are later framed for 'helping'. See also the Live-Action Film entry below.
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* The 2002 ''Pelle Politibil'' movie. The titular character arriving by a wish from a kid wishing for a miracle, for ''starters''. So is anything written by Arthur Johansen.
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** Despite ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'' being made for the company’s 100th anniversary, is just your average 90s styled Disney film, except with a new and sleeker animation style. Not helping is that [[WhatCouldHaveBeen they were going to have a cool concept, but they were scrapped.]]
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** It's somewhat hard to believe nowadays, since the movie itself has been [[OnceOriginalNowOverdone so heavily copied]], but the first ''Star Wars'' movie, ''Film/ANewHope'', was intentionally written as a checklist of HighFantasy clichés given clichéd--although [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome absolutely gorgeous]]--SpaceOpera window dressing. In this case, the frisson between the two genres (as well as the {{Spectacle}}) [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste is entirely the point]].
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** It's somewhat hard to believe nowadays, since the movie itself has been [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny so heavily copied]], but the first ''Star Wars'' movie, ''Film/ANewHope'', was intentionally written as a checklist of HighFantasy clichés given clichéd--although [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome absolutely gorgeous]]--SpaceOpera window dressing. In this case, the frisson between the two genres (as well as the {{Spectacle}}) [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste is entirely the point]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is often regarded as this, considering it stars a RebelliousPrincess (all too common in Disney films) and struggled a bit to distinguish itself from previous movies such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. To its credit, though, it did take a more subversive take on the worn formula it operated on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega''. Entire movie in a nutshell: Male falls in love with female. Male realizes he can't be with female because their love is forbidden due to them being different. Male and female get captured, wake up in a new location, and have to find their way home. Then throw in a bunch of kiddie humor during their adventure. Male and female finally arrive home, but the female dies. [[DisneyDeath Oh, she didn't actually die]]. Male and female, despite their differences, fall in love, and live HappilyEverAfter. The end. '''''AND''''' there's a direct-to-video series where they have [[BabiesEverAfter 3 children]].
* While it was largely well-received, a number of critics have noted that ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'' is pretty by-the-book in regards to both animated family film tropes and heist movie tropes; there's a VillainProtagonist who undergoes a HeelFaceTurn after discovering that GoodFeelsGood, his idealist mentor [[spoiler:turns out to have been EvilAllAlong and frames him for a heist, forcing the protagonist and his friends to ClearTheirName]], and the climactic heist involves using [[ReplacedWithReplica the old switcheroo]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is often regarded as this, considering it stars a RebelliousPrincess (all too common in Disney films) and struggled a bit to distinguish itself from previous movies such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. To its credit, though, it did take a more subversive take on the worn formula it operated on.
* ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' is considered to be the first of these from Creator/{{Pixar}}. It's easy to imagine a little counter in the corner dinging whenever you see a Pixar cliché. Stranger in a community or group; brooding moment from a side character; wacky sidekick who forms a comedic duo with the main character; said group full of wacky members with their own quirks; all of the development threatens to go downhill when something happens to separate or alienate the stranger, until they all decide they like this new stranger and want him back in the group; The stranger decides that s/he really is a member of the group. It doesn't help it's a beat-for-beat RecycledScript of ''Film/DocHollywood''.
** One of the major complaints about [[WesternAnimation/Cars2 the sequel]] is the fact that the Cliché Storm element is taken to nigh painful extremes. The clichés were even ''more'' evident in ''Cars 2'' because they were using action-movie clichés too, more notable than simple Pixar clichés.
** The SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'', which is ''not'' made by Pixar, is just the typical "underdog overcomes the odds and wins in the end" story, except the characters are planes and cars. It even includes one of the worst rival clichés ever - the "the rival is actually a dirty cheater behind the scenes" cliché.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Charming}}'': A prince is cursed and must go on a standard fantasy quest to lift the curse before the arbitrary time limit. He's joined by a thief who's presented as being NotLikeOtherGirls, and while they bicker at first they eventually fall in love and hook up (after the obligatory NotWhatItLooksLike moment where they believe the other doesn't return their feelings). Several fairy tales get lampooned along the way, in manners that have already been done to death by other FracturedFairyTale stories (e.g. Sleeping Beauty having narcolepsy).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': You've seen this movie before. Kid with dreams that his family doesn't approve of, ParentalAbandonment, talent show the protagonist wants to enter, revered hero revealed as {{Jerkass}} BrokenPedestal, etc. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that it's a bad thing.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'': a [[GratuitousPrincess beautiful princess]] [[StarCrossedLovers falls in love with]] TheHero, who has to unite their FeudingFamilies and fight the EvilChancellor. All that, just gleaned from the trailer. Add in the annoying sidekick, who is just [[TheLoad so useless]] until the end when he "saves" the hero, except he gets attacked by some flying frog things as a result... Considering how it had the worst opening weekend for a wide-release movie in history...
** One comment on a Mogulus stream channel chat summed it up thusly: "[[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife It's like they got their script from TV Tropes]]!"
* Every Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon DirectToVideo sequel by Creator/DisneytoonStudios.
** Although, some ''have'' thought that ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'' was somewhat deconstructive, and it also lampshaded several tropes played in the original fairy tale (e.g., the king asking why the prince is so in love with someone over their choice in footwear, characters seemingly being very suspicious about choice of love).
** ''WesternAnimation/BambiII'' also plays around with several parts of the first film, even if its WellDoneSonGuy plot is still relatively much more formulaic, given the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' had [[ToughActToFollow one of the most nuanced and original forms of storytelling]] in the entire Disney filmography.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' is ''infamous'' for this. One of the film's biggest criticisms is that it is an unashamed mishmash of animated movie clichés from its era, as highlighted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmUvW4egbNQ this video]] comparing it (or more, merely its ''trailer'') to the [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie many]], ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut many]]'' [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph works]] that it is derivative of. People had even begun ([[IKnewIt correctly]]) predicting the plot beats, characters, and the ending for this film since ''before the posters were even released'': The [[TheGenericGuy generic protagonist]] who [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer doesn't fit in]] and [[IJustWantToBeNormal goes on an adventure seeking to conform.]] Along the way, he meets an [[PluckyComicRelief obnoxious comic relief]] and a [[RealWomenDontWearDresses generic tough girl]] who [[spoiler:[[RebelliousPrincess happens to be a princess dreaming of more]]]] while being hunted down by an [[ControlFreak order obsessed villain.]] She is defeated, which results in [[DancePartyEnding a giant dance party.]] We also get a message about [[BeYourself being yourself]] when the movie itself [[{{Irony}} lacks an identity.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'': [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/Epic-animated-2013 In the words of reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz]]:
-->"There's a protagonist grieving over [[MissingMom her mother's recent death]], and [[GeniusDitz a brilliant but scatterbrained]] [[BumblingDad father who loves his child but isn't the strong parental figure she desperately needs]]. There's a hidden world akin to Alice's Wonderland that the inquisitive heroine explores. There are beleaguered good guys that she joins in a war against bad guys that represent chaos and decay; their leader is a funny despot with a European accent. There's a mythology that will be fulfilled when good guys take a fragile pod on a journey toward a prophesied end. There's a young warrior with whom the heroine forms a flirtatious friendship. There's a tough older warrior who mentors the younger warrior. There are comic sidekicks, and a beautiful forest queen who utters platitudes about the cycles of life [[spoiler:and then dies]]."
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' uses many of the tropes from the game series (monsters appearing out of nowhere, romance side-plot, adventure to discover the truth behind supernatural events etc.) and there have been a dozen games. Naturally, this is the result.
* The animated ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' falls into this trap ''hard''. While its [[Theatre/TheKingAndI source material]] was a standard Disneyesque boy-meets-girl PeriodPiece, the animated version takes this a step further by adding an EvilChancellor, some {{Gratuitous Animal Sidekick}}s, an action-packed climax and an EverybodyLives[=/=]DisneyDeath ending.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' has a lot of clichés par the course for your standard action blockbuster, including TheEveryman who rises to become TheHero; the villain who wants to destroy the world; the ActionGirlfriend with a {{Jerkass}} RomanticFalseLead who's also Franchise/{{Batman}}; the old MentorArchetype who's the only one with any faith in TheHero; etc. Of course, this being a self-aware ''LEGO'' film, it's relentlessly [[ParodiedTrope parodied.]] [[spoiler:In a clever PlotTwist, the third act [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the clichéd storyline by revealing it's all being played out in the imagination of an eight-year-old boy trying to cope with his ControlFreak father who won't let him play with LEGO the way he wants]].
* One of major criticisms put towards ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' was that the story just rehashes the basic plot formula seen in the show's adventure arcs with more typical fantasy adventure cliches. A villain appears in Equestria who easily defeats the ruling princesses and forces Twilight and her friends to search for a way to defeat them while meeting stock character archetypes in standard fantasy settings, like a cynical rogue with a hidden heart of gold in WretchedHive, a [[ShelteredAristocrat sheltered princess]] in a HiddenElfVillage, and a villainous second-in-command with a tragic past.
* One of the most common criticisms of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' is that it played out like a laundry list of Disney Renaissance clichés (a RebelliousPrincess who wants "something more" out of life, a [[HelicopterParents disapproving parent]] who wants her to marry someone she doesn't love, {{Non Human Sidekick}}s who serve no real purpose to the plot other than to sell toys...) at a time when the Disney formula was starting to feel a bit stale.
** The other theatrical films get accused of this also, especially around the TurnOfTheMillennium when it was becoming clear that Disney's AnimatedMusical formula was becoming overused, repetitive, and increasingly copied: sappy [[IWantSong "I Want" songs]], wisecracking sidekicks, charismatic villains who may or may not suffer a DisneyVillainDeath, [[RebelliousPrincess rebellious princesses.]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' got hit with this more than the others, since it not only exhibited just about ''every'' 1990s animated movie cliché, but did so in a movie {{Very Loosely Based on a|True Story}} [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie Dubious Historical Account]].
* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' was also widely criticized for being essentially a laundry-list of contemporary animated movie cliches. David Kronke of the ''Los Angeles Times'' even called it out as such in his review, saying it was "A nearly perfect reflection of troubling trends in animated features.''
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 Ratchet & Clank]]'' film revolves around an orphan who lives on a quiet backwater planet and is also TheLastOfHisKind. Said orphan idolizes a hero and dreams of becoming one, gains a small sidekick, and undergoes training. The hero grows jealous of the protagonist for stealing his spotlight [[spoiler: and later betrays his team because of it. The protagonist gives up on his dream after a failed mission, but later comes back and convinces the hero who betrayed him [[HeelRealization to realize what he did was wrong]], then they both team up and save the galaxy]]. Also, the villain has a planet-destroying weapon, [[spoiler:is later usurped by a [[TheStarscream lesser antagonist]] who suffers a DisneyVillainDeath, but is revealed to have survived in TheStinger and became [[WeCanRebuildHim roboticized.]]]] It even got to a point where the SequelHook stated "[[LampshadeHanging Oh, like you didn't see this coming.]]"
* The movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' is a compilation of every trope common to kids movies in the 2000s, especially [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation Dreamworks]] movies. Creator/JesseEisenberg (whose acting and voice makes him qualify as a sort-of Creator/MichaelCera clone) plays a LastOfHisKind Blue Bird who [[AcrophobicBird doesn't know]] [[HowDoIShotWeb how to fly]] and tries to woo another just-discovered bird of his species, this one a {{hot blooded}} {{action girl}} played by Creator/AnneHathaway. Rounding out the cast are a [[IWasQuiteALooker vain]], [[SmugSnake egocentric]], and FauxAffablyEvil villain bird played by a Creator/TimCurry soundalike (in this case, Creator/JemaineClement), a goofy comic relief duo in the form of a cardinal voiced by Will.I.Am and a canary voiced by Jamie Foxx, and a {{happily married}} HenpeckedHusband [[TheMentor Mentor]] Toucan played by Creator/GeorgeLopez. An [[OddCouple quirky odd couple type romance]] followed by [[DieOrFly learning how to fly]] {{just in time}} (with the help of {{the power of love}}) scene are both bound to happen. The sequel takes it a step further, with [[BabiesEverAfter sequel offspring]], VillainDecay, and a plot that's ''very'' predictable.
* The protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' [[IJustWantToBeSpecial dreams of fame,]] [[LiarRevealed lies to everyone about being the hero,]] get involved in a [[ObliviousToLove romantic subplot borne of poor communication]] and because this is a kids movie, [[EasilyForgiven everyone just lets]] [[{{Pun}} him off the hook]].
* The infamous ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' has an ''insane'' list of clichés found in kids' movies (''especially'' Disney ones). Talking animal characters, a bad character with incompetent henchmen, a girl with an [[WickedStepmother evil stepfamily]], LoveAtFirstSight, {{Disneyfication}} gone mad, and more clichés are there to show its notoriety. Go to the article to see the full list of clichés.
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* ''911 Nightmare'', a 2016 LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek starring Fiona Gubelmann as 911 operator Christine [=McCullers=] was in part, a {{parody}} of cliched Lifetime movies, although it was definitely [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and edgy]], with none of the usual comedic parody elements. It didn't do anything particularly original as a PoliceProcedural but it was apparently intended as a parody, according to WordOfSaintPaul.
* Two of Creator/JamesCameron's films, ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and ''Film/Titanic1997'', show that this trope isn't always bad. ''Avatar'' is even ''self-aware'' of its clichés (calling the MineralMacGuffin "{{Unobtanium}}") and Cameron has said "It's just ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace In Space]]". They became very high-grossing films and were well-liked by critics, [[JustHereForGodzilla even despite how many people only saw it to see the pretty technical aspects]] and SceneryPorn.
* ''Film/BattleLosAngeles'': A group of Marines, one about to get married, one trying to gain citizenship, one two days from retirement, one with a baby on the way, one a fresh faced rookie, one struggling to cope, and one who lost his brother, use the power of teamwork and MoreDakka to defend the United States from an AlienInvasion.
* ''Film/BigAssSpider:'' A secret government experiment accidentally creates a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin really big alien-hybrid spider]], which proceeds to go on a rampage in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Fortunately, the film is intentionally humorous.
* Critics dismissed ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' as this because it hits all of the typical beats of a story about a rock band's climb to the top. While this is technically true, it may have ended up this way because the plot takes place over a period of fifteen years and had to be [[PragmaticAdaptation greatly condensed]] in order to fit into a two-hour film. In the end, it made its budget back three times over in four days because it turns out that with a Music/{{Queen}} biopic, plot probably matters less than an actor's ability to transform into Music/FreddieMercury (which Creator/RamiMalek did exceptionally well), SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, and CostumePorn.
* One of the biggest criticisms of ''Film/TheByeByeMan'' is that it borrows heavily from other horror films, but fails to do anything particularly original on its own.
* Intentionally invoked in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', which throws in nearly every horror-movie cliche ever. Justified in that [[spoiler:the cliches are a requirement of The Ancient Ones who must be placated by the ritual.]]
* ''{{Film/Chicago}}'': "The Press Conference Rag" is an example, albeit one which is not apparent to the modern viewer. Roxie's BackStory, as given by Billy (CountryMouse, [[RichPeople rich family]], [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest dead parents]], [[OrphanageOfLove raised in a convent]], VagueAge, ShotgunWedding) was the Back Story of every young woman who wanted to get into showbiz in TheRoaringTwenties. By 1927 (when the play Chicago is based on was written) it was such an obvious sob story that, had the author attempted to sell it as anything other than an {{Amoral Attorney}}'s attempt to stir up sympathy for his client, the audience would have rolled their eyes and said "AndImTheQueenOfSheba".
* Referenced in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' where retired spy/country gentleman Sir James Bond (David Niven) [[RefusalOfTheCall turns down]] the entreaties of the secret service heads of the superpowers, telling them "If I may interrupt this flow of cliche, it is now that time of day that I set apart for [playing] Debussy."
* ''Film/DantesPeak''. Protagonist lost his spouse in the same disaster many years ago and is still hung up about it; jaded superior who insists that they need proof only for him to be, of course, wrong, and subsequently die a KarmicDeath; most annoying character who refused to come down from the mountain and thus endangered the lives of the others dies while the dog survives; big final blow-you-out-of-your-seat special effects sequence, and even a TokenRomance... And yet, for all that, it still manages to be good.
* In a SoBadItsGood way, both ''Darktown Strutters'' and ''Order of the Black Eagle''. These movies aren't related at all, they just fit together when run matinee style due to using exactly half of all available tropes ever created prior to the 80s. The combination effect induces what can only be described as an effect similar to a caffeine rush without the coffee.
%%* ''Film/{{Daylight}}''; it's every disaster movie since 1972.
* ''Film/{{Deathlands}}'': A cocktail of every sci-fi movie you've ever seen, thrown together on a budget equal to the price of a bus ticket.
* Cheap Creator/SylvesterStallone vehicle ''Film/DTox''. Stallone plays a cop who, after punching a CymbalBangingMonkey, finds out his wife has been killed by his nemesis. He develops a drink problem and is sent to a remote, snowy rehab place. People get killed off one by one. And who's doing the killing? Why, the [[spoiler:EvilBrit]]! As you'd expect from a film populated by alcoholics, you get an {{Anvilicious}} message:
-->"Booze may be a slow-burner, but it's still suicide."
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'''s ''Film/DirtyDancing'' parody spoofed not just the movie, put pointed out the cliche used in the scene they were spoofing in each panel; a display of {{Lampshading}} that would have done Website/TVTropes proud.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'', TheMovie. It's easy to imagine little "DING!" noises and a counter display ratcheting up as each cliché goes by. The film makes for an impressive [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0145.html drinking game]].
* ''Film/TheExpendables'', but that's precisely the point.
** In fact, it hits up more tropes than expected, particularly during the middle section, which unfortunately bores those who knows exactly what the main character's going to decide to do, and just wants him to get on with it.
** ''Film/TheExpendables2'' was even worse, which admittedly made it even more enjoyable. The best example was when [[SacrificialLamb Billy "The Kid" Timmons]], [[TooHappyToLive the young guy who's hopelessly in love]], [[FatalFamilyPhoto showed Barney Ross a picture of his girlfriend]], and told him he wanted to [[{{Retirony}} quit but would finish the month]]. ''Every single person watching knew exactly what his fate was''. Hell, even ''the character he was talking to'' knew what his fate was. [[spoiler: And the movie delivers, on time and as expected, with just about the most [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice wonderfully over-the-top death scene possible.]]]]
* Self-aware in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', where Tom Cruise's character has a throwaway conversation with the local newsstand vendor involving each of them trying to wryly out-cliche the other.
* ''Film/GeminiMan'' is about an elite but aging assassin being chased by his 23-year-old clone. It is often seen as an inferior use of ''{{Film/Looper}}'''s premise. Many perceive it as [[DancingBear prioritizing special effects (and 4K/3D/120fps) over the plot]].
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' is chock-full of every action movie cliche most people have ever seen. If you want an explanation, look no further than [[http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/08/the-movie-non-review-gi-joe-the-rise-of-cobra/69002/ Christopher Orr's review of the movie,]] in which he decides to just let it speak for itself by providing 40 of the lines that sum up the entire plot and all of the typical one-liners and plot points it has. It's really a shame though, considering it had some great actors who did the best they could with the material they were given. Then again, for fans of the movie, this could be exactly what they liked about it.
%%* Ryuhei Kitamura isn't a terrifically subtle director, to say the least. He is, however, terrifically entertaining, which might explain why he was picked to direct ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars''.
%%* Those that dislike ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' consider it to be this; those that do enjoy it, however, consider it to be a decent film that's very [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools campy and doesn't take itself too seriously.]]
* The Hallmark Channel is famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) for heavily exploiting this, especially with their Christmas specials. The ChristmasSpecial usually consists of a woman who doesn't have someone to spend the holidays, later bumps into a guy that she later falls in love with, they solve the conflict of the story (usually consisting of giving the Christmas spirit to a [[TheScrooge holiday-hater]]), and ends with the main cast celebrating Christmas in the protagonist's house. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The writing tends to be cheesy, too.]] Regardless, many a fan consider these specials to be a GuiltyPleasure.
** A word of advice: If your TV's tuned in to Hallmark during Christmastime, ''do '''not''''' play a drinking game with the commercials for said long string of movies. You '''will''' collapse--especially if it involves the narration: "But she ''soon discovers''...that ''nothing'' is so/more X...as/than ''falling in love''." (Almost as frequent: "...as/than ''family''.")
* Done on purpose in ''Film/HardcoreHenry'' to give the movie some excuses for its UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective. The movie is a pretty unique example of this trope because it invokes ''videogame clichés'', not film clichés.
* Subverted in almost every possible way throughout ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', a film in which almost everything you expect in a World War II action film turns out exactly the opposite of what you'd expect.
** Unlike ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''... aside from the Normandy Beach scene, which broke some serious new ground in that genre.
* ''Film/IntoTheStorm2014'': It's a giant-killer-tornado film. A scrappy team of twister-hunters with an Obsessed JerkAss Leader, a slab of NewMeat, a Hot Single Mom Scientist, a [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Guy]] and a CoolCar are thrown together with a strict workaholic widower trying to raise two teenaged boys, and a couple of idiotic thrill-seeking yokels. Amazingly, [[spoiler: the black guy survives]], and the widower apparently ''doesn't'' [[spoiler: hook up with the hot scientist, even after saving her life]].
* ''Film/JupiterAscending''. A RagsToRoyalty PluckyGirl meets a NinjaPirateZombieRobot SuperSoldier and [[TheDulcineaEffect falls in love with him]], while they team up to fight through each member of a [[SiblingRivalry sibling]] [[AristocratsAreEvil villain trio]] who want to [[PeopleFarms destroy humanity]]. In the end, [[spoiler:the AGodAmI NonActionBigBad receives a DisneyVillainDeath, EverybodyLives, and the two protagonists get a RelationshipUpgrade]].
* Many Creator/QuentinTarantino movies are like this, but ''Film/KillBill'' is the poster child. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools And you will love]] [[RefugeInAudacity every last second.]]
%%* Part of the premise of ''Film/LastActionHero''.
* The Creator/AmyAdams flick ''Film/{{Leap Year|2010}}'' is not so much a film as it is the feeding every RomCom and {{Oireland}} cliche imaginable into a blender and making the audience drink the result.
* Creator/RennyHarlin's ''Film/TheLegendOfHercules'' is a perfect storm of AncientGrome clichés, including scenes blatantly ripping off ''Film/ThreeHundred'', ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', and ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}''.
* Parodied in ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' with this exchange:
-->'''Gen. Morters:''' Where's the microfilm, Mike?\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' I don't know, I gave it to York. I thought she was one of your men.\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Act in haste, repent in leisure.\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' But he who hesitates is lost.\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Never judge a book by its cover.\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' What you see is what you get.\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Loose lips, sink ships...\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' [[Music/TheBeatles Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing or fighting, my friend.]]\\
''[Gen. Morters, cornered, looks to Mr. Jigsaw]''\\
''[Mr. Jigsaw consults Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, shakes his head]''\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Sorry Mike, no good.
* ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' has Creator/BrendanFraser delivering cliché one-liners every few seconds.
--> "I really hate mummies!"\\
"Time to go!"\\
"Here we go again!"
* It's nearly impossible to find a review of ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'' that ''doesn't'' point out how similar it is to earlier properties. Most commonly cited were ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', and ''Franchise/StarWars''.
* ''[[Film/NationalLampoon National Lampoon's Senior Trip]]'' is the bad/lazy version of this as the entire [[RagtagBunchofMisfits class]] is just one big checklist of student cliches from the HighSchoolHustler leader to TheStoner sidekick(s) to the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbians]] with special emphasis on [[BigFun Miosky,]] who's trying everything in his power to be the next John Belushi, plus [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero "date a blonde Jap."]] The ''only'' saving graces to this film is Matt Frewer as their [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter teacher,]] [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Kevin]] [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall McDonald]] playing an AxCrazy ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan out to kill them and [[Creator/TaraStrong Carla]] asking guys if they "want to screw."
* A common remark—for good or ill—seems to be that ''Film/Oblivion2013'' is made up out of other SF movies in general.
** A notorious sci-fi cliche was [[spoiler:aliens coming to Earth to steal our water. Though at least the alien is turning it into energy instead.]]
* ''Film/PacificRim'' once again shows us that Administrivia/TropesAreTools. The film manages to work with an absolute Cliché Storm of a plot that almost ''anyone'' who has seen a Kaiju movie can see coming from a mile away... but manages to make it work because Creator/GuillermoDelToro intended it as a Homage.
* ''Film/{{The Princess|2022}}'': '''Good Lord, where do we start?''' Pretty much every single PlotDevice, PlotTwist, RebelliousPrincess story, and even certain lines of dialogue, are either very obvious to the watcher, or based on cliche's that have been heard countless times before in countless other action, medieval, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs medieval-action]] movies. To say the films' story is an ExcusePlot to see some choreographed action is something of an understatement.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''-featured fantasy film ''Film/{{Quest of the Delta Knights}}'' has the BigBad saying things like: "I grow weary of your antics, beggar man!" Ironically, and with no explanation whatever, both the BigBad and the old man were played by David Warner. The movie was a thinly-veiled attempt to do ''Franchise/StarWars'' in a fantasy setting long before ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'' made it cool, and that's how they linked the Darth Vader and Obi-Wan characters. It's not ''much'' of an explanation, but it does seem ''slightly'' less random when you realize that.
* The ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' contains so many cliches from every zombie, sci-fi and buddy action film in the past twenty years before release that it is near impossible to find something original in them. EasyAmnesia, {{Expendable Clone}}s, GunsAkimbo, StuffBlowingUp, BulletTime, and near shot-for-shot copying of scenes from ''Film/TheMatrix''. The films were one [[LukeIAmYourFather long-lost relative]] away from hitting every major cliché in the book... and then the last installment used ''that'' one, too.
* Discussed in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' as the setup for an action punchline:
-->'''The Operative''': "Nothing here is what it seems. He's ''not'' [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the plucky hero]]; the Alliance isn't [[TheEmpire some evil Empire]]; this is ''not'' the grand arena --"
-->'''Inara''': "-- and that's not incense."
-->''BOOM!''
* The biggest criticism of ''Film/ShutIn'' is that it relies too much on traditional horror clichés, such as {{Jump Scare}}s and dream sequences, instead of properly building tension to provide scares. Some reviews even stated that the twist where [[spoiler:Stephen is revealed to have been faking paralysis the whole time]] is easy to predict.
* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}''. It ''is'' a preteen chick flick comedy, but this is ridiculous. It doesn't help that most of the actresses are fresh out of Barbizon and don't even realize how many {{Dead Horse Trope}}s they're playing straight.
* ''Film/SmallSoldiers'': Everything Hazard says is made of this, from the "roll call" when he activates his troops to his combat banter. The best bit is when he gives a hilariously cliché-ridden speech to his "soldiers", in which he actually contradicts himself by the end.
--> "Soldiers, no poor sap ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by being all that he can be. Damn the torpedoes, or give me death! Eternal vigilance is the price of duty. And, to the victors go the spoils. So remember: you are the best of the best of the few and the proud. So ask not what your country can do for you, only regret that you have but one life to live!"
%%* Creator/RogerEbert's review of ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' was [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19941028/REVIEWS/410280308/1023 one long checklist of the cliches involved.]]
* The three ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' movies. These movies are all about irony, producers claim. [[ParodyRetcon Whether or not that works for you is your call.]] The first and [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder third movies]] are intentional satire, [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation the second movie]] is closer to this, with some heavy-handed satire.
* The portions we hear of the speech the Federation President gives at Khitomer in ''Film/{{Star Trek VI|The Undiscovered Country}}'' are a political/diplomatic speech cliché storm.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** It's somewhat hard to believe nowadays, since the movie itself has been [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny so heavily copied]], but the first ''Star Wars'' movie, ''Film/ANewHope'', was intentionally written as a checklist of HighFantasy clichés given clichéd--although [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome absolutely gorgeous]]--SpaceOpera window dressing. In this case, the frisson between the two genres (as well as the {{Spectacle}}) [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste is entirely the point]].
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' reuses many of the most memorable plot devices and tropes of ''A New Hope'' (an orphaned protagonist on a desert planet, a PlanetDestroyer super-weapon, and a villain who is a blatant {{Expy}} of Darth Vader, to name only three). However, the next movie in the new trilogy, ''Film/TheLastJedi'', managed to avoid being a Cliche Storm and created an identity of its own. [[BrokenBase As for whether that was a good thing...]]
** One of the common criticisms of ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' was how formulaic it is (it's been speculated the creators intentionally played it safe due to the controversy over ''The Last Jedi''). By the end of the first act, it's easy to predict how the film will play out, especially since it's similar to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi.'' The hero is [[LukeIAmYourFather related to a bad guy]] who wants them to join the dark side. The mentor [[MentorOccupationalHazard dies]] heroically partway through to raise the stakes. The heroes make a {{last stand}} against the bad guys who are equipped with planet-destroying weaponry, a bunch of extras/side characters get whacked, but they prevail at the last minute by blowing up the bad guy's main ship and getting an [[TheCavalry unexpected cavalry arrival]].[[note]] unexpected for the ''characters'', rather than the audience [[/note]] The hero goes to confront the BigBad alone where they're tempted one last time to join the dark side, [[spoiler:and they are saved by the sacrifice of [[RedemptionEqualsDeath a redeemed villain]]]].
* ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi'' has a terribly huge number of action movie clichés, even (perhaps especially) ones which contradict the canon and tone of the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series.
** So did [[Film/StreetFighter the original movie]], but unlike ''Legend of Chun Li'', [[SoBadItsGood it didn't suck as hard]].
* The 2007 hard sci-fi epic ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' borrows heavily from both ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'', along with a host of other influences in the serious science fiction family of movies. The movie works though, mostly because you don't see its type very often anymore.
* ''Limit of Love: Umizaru''. Up until the last 10 minutes, you can easily predict not only every single "unexpected twist" but every single line the characters are about to say. Even if we count that last moment where [[spoiler: the ship sinks with the protagonist still on board]], the ending is still the same. Just goes to prove it, you can only make so many movies about a sinking ship.
* ''Film/WhenTimeRanOut''. Most of the Cliches used ''in'' that movie were the ones Irwin Allen himself have been credited with creating. (It's eerily similar to the 1972 film adaptation of ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'', complete with an elderly woman fleeing for an escape dying of a heart attack and the majority of the people who stayed behind dying.)
* The complete filmography of action movie directors Creator/RolandEmmerich, Creator/MichaelBay, and Creator/StephenSommers, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that's not to say they aren't entertaining]].
** Sommers in particular [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this. In his commentary for ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', he notes that if you have a jungle full of ruins, you ''have'' to have {{Shrunken Head}}s.
** He also claims that movie rules require [[ChandlersLaw a pointed gun]] to make sufficient rattling noises--about the level created by a large garbage bag full of cans is a good starting point.
* ''Film/MaidInManhattan'' contains pretty much most RomanticComedy tropes, since it's a Cinderella retelling set in a Manhattan hotel.
* ''Film/StatusUpdate'' has been criticized for basically being a Disney Channel movie that made it to the big screen, due to the trailer including many tired plot beats: an unpopular guy becomes popular through magical means, a LoveTriangle between him, the AlphaBitch and the NiceGirl ensues, he realizes that the popularity isn't what he wanted and resolves to get his old life back.
* ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'': SETH's speech, which is both bombastic and awesome and hilarious for sounding like every other speech given by an AIIsACrapshoot villain ever. At the end he even basically [[AGodAmI declares himself God]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega''. Entire movie in a nutshell: Male falls in love with female. Male realizes he can't be with female because their love is forbidden due to them being different. Male and female get captured, wake up in a new location, and have to find their way home. Then throw in a bunch of kiddie humor during their adventure. Male and female finally arrive home, but the female dies. [[DisneyDeath Oh, she didn't actually die]]. Male and female, despite their differences, fall in love, and live HappilyEverAfter. The end. '''''AND''''' there's a direct-to-video series where they have [[BabiesEverAfter 3 children]].
* While it was largely well-received, a number of critics have noted that ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'' is pretty by-the-book in regards to both animated family film tropes and heist movie tropes; there's a VillainProtagonist who undergoes a HeelFaceTurn after discovering that GoodFeelsGood, his idealist mentor [[spoiler:turns out to have been EvilAllAlong and frames him for a heist, forcing the protagonist and his friends to ClearTheirName]], and the climactic heist involves using [[ReplacedWithReplica the old switcheroo]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is often regarded as this, considering it stars a RebelliousPrincess (all too common in Disney films) and struggled a bit to distinguish itself from previous movies such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. To its credit, though, it did take a more subversive take on the worn formula it operated on.
* ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' is considered to be the first of these from Creator/{{Pixar}}. It's easy to imagine a little counter in the corner dinging whenever you see a Pixar cliché. Stranger in a community or group; brooding moment from a side character; wacky sidekick who forms a comedic duo with the main character; said group full of wacky members with their own quirks; all of the development threatens to go downhill when something happens to separate or alienate the stranger, until they all decide they like this new stranger and want him back in the group; The stranger decides that s/he really is a member of the group. It doesn't help it's a beat-for-beat RecycledScript of ''Film/DocHollywood''.
** One of the major complaints about [[WesternAnimation/Cars2 the sequel]] is the fact that the Cliché Storm element is taken to nigh painful extremes. The clichés were even ''more'' evident in ''Cars 2'' because they were using action-movie clichés too, more notable than simple Pixar clichés.
** The SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'', which is ''not'' made by Pixar, is just the typical "underdog overcomes the odds and wins in the end" story, except the characters are planes and cars. It even includes one of the worst rival clichés ever - the "the rival is actually a dirty cheater behind the scenes" cliché.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Charming}}'': A prince is cursed and must go on a standard fantasy quest to lift the curse before the arbitrary time limit. He's joined by a thief who's presented as being NotLikeOtherGirls, and while they bicker at first they eventually fall in love and hook up (after the obligatory NotWhatItLooksLike moment where they believe the other doesn't return their feelings). Several fairy tales get lampooned along the way, in manners that have already been done to death by other FracturedFairyTale stories (e.g. Sleeping Beauty having narcolepsy).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': You've seen this movie before. Kid with dreams that his family doesn't approve of, ParentalAbandonment, talent show the protagonist wants to enter, revered hero revealed as {{Jerkass}} BrokenPedestal, etc. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that it's a bad thing.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'': a [[GratuitousPrincess beautiful princess]] [[StarCrossedLovers falls in love with]] TheHero, who has to unite their FeudingFamilies and fight the EvilChancellor. All that, just gleaned from the trailer. Add in the annoying sidekick, who is just [[TheLoad so useless]] until the end when he "saves" the hero, except he gets attacked by some flying frog things as a result... Considering how it had the worst opening weekend for a wide-release movie in history...
** One comment on a Mogulus stream channel chat summed it up thusly: "[[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife It's like they got their script from TV Tropes]]!"
* Every Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon DirectToVideo sequel by Creator/DisneytoonStudios.
** Although, some ''have'' thought that ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'' was somewhat deconstructive, and it also lampshaded several tropes played in the original fairy tale (e.g., the king asking why the prince is so in love with someone over their choice in footwear, characters seemingly being very suspicious about choice of love).
** ''WesternAnimation/BambiII'' also plays around with several parts of the first film, even if its WellDoneSonGuy plot is still relatively much more formulaic, given the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' had [[ToughActToFollow one of the most nuanced and original forms of storytelling]] in the entire Disney filmography.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' is ''infamous'' for this. One of the film's biggest criticisms is that it is an unashamed mishmash of animated movie clichés from its era, as highlighted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmUvW4egbNQ this video]] comparing it (or more, merely its ''trailer'') to the [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie many]], ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut many]]'' [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph works]] that it is derivative of. People had even begun ([[IKnewIt correctly]]) predicting the plot beats, characters, and the ending for this film since ''before the posters were even released'': The [[TheGenericGuy generic protagonist]] who [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer doesn't fit in]] and [[IJustWantToBeNormal goes on an adventure seeking to conform.]] Along the way, he meets an [[PluckyComicRelief obnoxious comic relief]] and a [[RealWomenDontWearDresses generic tough girl]] who [[spoiler:[[RebelliousPrincess happens to be a princess dreaming of more]]]] while being hunted down by an [[ControlFreak order obsessed villain.]] She is defeated, which results in [[DancePartyEnding a giant dance party.]] We also get a message about [[BeYourself being yourself]] when the movie itself [[{{Irony}} lacks an identity.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'': [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/Epic-animated-2013 In the words of reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz]]:
-->"There's a protagonist grieving over [[MissingMom her mother's recent death]], and [[GeniusDitz a brilliant but scatterbrained]] [[BumblingDad father who loves his child but isn't the strong parental figure she desperately needs]]. There's a hidden world akin to Alice's Wonderland that the inquisitive heroine explores. There are beleaguered good guys that she joins in a war against bad guys that represent chaos and decay; their leader is a funny despot with a European accent. There's a mythology that will be fulfilled when good guys take a fragile pod on a journey toward a prophesied end. There's a young warrior with whom the heroine forms a flirtatious friendship. There's a tough older warrior who mentors the younger warrior. There are comic sidekicks, and a beautiful forest queen who utters platitudes about the cycles of life [[spoiler:and then dies]]."
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' uses many of the tropes from the game series (monsters appearing out of nowhere, romance side-plot, adventure to discover the truth behind supernatural events etc.) and there have been a dozen games. Naturally, this is the result.
* The animated ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' falls into this trap ''hard''. While its [[Theatre/TheKingAndI source material]] was a standard Disneyesque boy-meets-girl PeriodPiece, the animated version takes this a step further by adding an EvilChancellor, some {{Gratuitous Animal Sidekick}}s, an action-packed climax and an EverybodyLives[=/=]DisneyDeath ending.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' has a lot of clichés par the course for your standard action blockbuster, including TheEveryman who rises to become TheHero; the villain who wants to destroy the world; the ActionGirlfriend with a {{Jerkass}} RomanticFalseLead who's also Franchise/{{Batman}}; the old MentorArchetype who's the only one with any faith in TheHero; etc. Of course, this being a self-aware ''LEGO'' film, it's relentlessly [[ParodiedTrope parodied.]] [[spoiler:In a clever PlotTwist, the third act [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the clichéd storyline by revealing it's all being played out in the imagination of an eight-year-old boy trying to cope with his ControlFreak father who won't let him play with LEGO the way he wants]].
* One of major criticisms put towards ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' was that the story just rehashes the basic plot formula seen in the show's adventure arcs with more typical fantasy adventure cliches. A villain appears in Equestria who easily defeats the ruling princesses and forces Twilight and her friends to search for a way to defeat them while meeting stock character archetypes in standard fantasy settings, like a cynical rogue with a hidden heart of gold in WretchedHive, a [[ShelteredAristocrat sheltered princess]] in a HiddenElfVillage, and a villainous second-in-command with a tragic past.
* One of the most common criticisms of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' is that it played out like a laundry list of Disney Renaissance clichés (a RebelliousPrincess who wants "something more" out of life, a [[HelicopterParents disapproving parent]] who wants her to marry someone she doesn't love, {{Non Human Sidekick}}s who serve no real purpose to the plot other than to sell toys...) at a time when the Disney formula was starting to feel a bit stale.
** The other theatrical films get accused of this also, especially around the TurnOfTheMillennium when it was becoming clear that Disney's AnimatedMusical formula was becoming overused, repetitive, and increasingly copied: sappy [[IWantSong "I Want" songs]], wisecracking sidekicks, charismatic villains who may or may not suffer a DisneyVillainDeath, [[RebelliousPrincess rebellious princesses.]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' got hit with this more than the others, since it not only exhibited just about ''every'' 1990s animated movie cliché, but did so in a movie {{Very Loosely Based on a|True Story}} [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie Dubious Historical Account]].
* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' was also widely criticized for being essentially a laundry-list of contemporary animated movie cliches. David Kronke of the ''Los Angeles Times'' even called it out as such in his review, saying it was "A nearly perfect reflection of troubling trends in animated features.''
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 Ratchet & Clank]]'' film revolves around an orphan who lives on a quiet backwater planet and is also TheLastOfHisKind. Said orphan idolizes a hero and dreams of becoming one, gains a small sidekick, and undergoes training. The hero grows jealous of the protagonist for stealing his spotlight [[spoiler: and later betrays his team because of it. The protagonist gives up on his dream after a failed mission, but later comes back and convinces the hero who betrayed him [[HeelRealization to realize what he did was wrong]], then they both team up and save the galaxy]]. Also, the villain has a planet-destroying weapon, [[spoiler:is later usurped by a [[TheStarscream lesser antagonist]] who suffers a DisneyVillainDeath, but is revealed to have survived in TheStinger and became [[WeCanRebuildHim roboticized.]]]] It even got to a point where the SequelHook stated "[[LampshadeHanging Oh, like you didn't see this coming.]]"
* The movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' is a compilation of every trope common to kids movies in the 2000s, especially [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation Dreamworks]] movies. Creator/JesseEisenberg (whose acting and voice makes him qualify as a sort-of Creator/MichaelCera clone) plays a LastOfHisKind Blue Bird who [[AcrophobicBird doesn't know]] [[HowDoIShotWeb how to fly]] and tries to woo another just-discovered bird of his species, this one a {{hot blooded}} {{action girl}} played by Creator/AnneHathaway. Rounding out the cast are a [[IWasQuiteALooker vain]], [[SmugSnake egocentric]], and FauxAffablyEvil villain bird played by a Creator/TimCurry soundalike (in this case, Creator/JemaineClement), a goofy comic relief duo in the form of a cardinal voiced by Will.I.Am and a canary voiced by Jamie Foxx, and a {{happily married}} HenpeckedHusband [[TheMentor Mentor]] Toucan played by Creator/GeorgeLopez. An [[OddCouple quirky odd couple type romance]] followed by [[DieOrFly learning how to fly]] {{just in time}} (with the help of {{the power of love}}) scene are both bound to happen. The sequel takes it a step further, with [[BabiesEverAfter sequel offspring]], VillainDecay, and a plot that's ''very'' predictable.
* The protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' [[IJustWantToBeSpecial dreams of fame,]] [[LiarRevealed lies to everyone about being the hero,]] get involved in a [[ObliviousToLove romantic subplot borne of poor communication]] and because this is a kids movie, [[EasilyForgiven everyone just lets]] [[{{Pun}} him off the hook]].
* The infamous ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' has an ''insane'' list of clichés found in kids' movies (''especially'' Disney ones). Talking animal characters, a bad character with incompetent henchmen, a girl with an [[WickedStepmother evil stepfamily]], LoveAtFirstSight, {{Disneyfication}} gone mad, and more clichés are there to show its notoriety. Go to the article to see the full list of clichés.
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* ''911 Nightmare'', a 2016 LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek starring Fiona Gubelmann as 911 operator Christine [=McCullers=] was in part, a {{parody}} of cliched Lifetime movies, although it was definitely [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and edgy]], with none of the usual comedic parody elements. It didn't do anything particularly original as a PoliceProcedural but it was apparently intended as a parody, according to WordOfSaintPaul.
* Two of Creator/JamesCameron's films, ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and ''Film/Titanic1997'', show that this trope isn't always bad. ''Avatar'' is even ''self-aware'' of its clichés (calling the MineralMacGuffin "{{Unobtanium}}") and Cameron has said "It's just ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace In Space]]". They became very high-grossing films and were well-liked by critics, [[JustHereForGodzilla even despite how many people only saw it to see the pretty technical aspects]] and SceneryPorn.
* ''Film/BattleLosAngeles'': A group of Marines, one about to get married, one trying to gain citizenship, one two days from retirement, one with a baby on the way, one a fresh faced rookie, one struggling to cope, and one who lost his brother, use the power of teamwork and MoreDakka to defend the United States from an AlienInvasion.
* ''Film/BigAssSpider:'' A secret government experiment accidentally creates a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin really big alien-hybrid spider]], which proceeds to go on a rampage in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Fortunately, the film is intentionally humorous.
* Critics dismissed ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' as this because it hits all of the typical beats of a story about a rock band's climb to the top. While this is technically true, it may have ended up this way because the plot takes place over a period of fifteen years and had to be [[PragmaticAdaptation greatly condensed]] in order to fit into a two-hour film. In the end, it made its budget back three times over in four days because it turns out that with a Music/{{Queen}} biopic, plot probably matters less than an actor's ability to transform into Music/FreddieMercury (which Creator/RamiMalek did exceptionally well), SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, and CostumePorn.
* One of the biggest criticisms of ''Film/TheByeByeMan'' is that it borrows heavily from other horror films, but fails to do anything particularly original on its own.
* Intentionally invoked in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', which throws in nearly every horror-movie cliche ever. Justified in that [[spoiler:the cliches are a requirement of The Ancient Ones who must be placated by the ritual.]]
* ''{{Film/Chicago}}'': "The Press Conference Rag" is an example, albeit one which is not apparent to the modern viewer. Roxie's BackStory, as given by Billy (CountryMouse, [[RichPeople rich family]], [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest dead parents]], [[OrphanageOfLove raised in a convent]], VagueAge, ShotgunWedding) was the Back Story of every young woman who wanted to get into showbiz in TheRoaringTwenties. By 1927 (when the play Chicago is based on was written) it was such an obvious sob story that, had the author attempted to sell it as anything other than an {{Amoral Attorney}}'s attempt to stir up sympathy for his client, the audience would have rolled their eyes and said "AndImTheQueenOfSheba".
* Referenced in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' where retired spy/country gentleman Sir James Bond (David Niven) [[RefusalOfTheCall turns down]] the entreaties of the secret service heads of the superpowers, telling them "If I may interrupt this flow of cliche, it is now that time of day that I set apart for [playing] Debussy."
* ''Film/DantesPeak''. Protagonist lost his spouse in the same disaster many years ago and is still hung up about it; jaded superior who insists that they need proof only for him to be, of course, wrong, and subsequently die a KarmicDeath; most annoying character who refused to come down from the mountain and thus endangered the lives of the others dies while the dog survives; big final blow-you-out-of-your-seat special effects sequence, and even a TokenRomance... And yet, for all that, it still manages to be good.
* In a SoBadItsGood way, both ''Darktown Strutters'' and ''Order of the Black Eagle''. These movies aren't related at all, they just fit together when run matinee style due to using exactly half of all available tropes ever created prior to the 80s. The combination effect induces what can only be described as an effect similar to a caffeine rush without the coffee.
%%* ''Film/{{Daylight}}''; it's every disaster movie since 1972.
* ''Film/{{Deathlands}}'': A cocktail of every sci-fi movie you've ever seen, thrown together on a budget equal to the price of a bus ticket.
* Cheap Creator/SylvesterStallone vehicle ''Film/DTox''. Stallone plays a cop who, after punching a CymbalBangingMonkey, finds out his wife has been killed by his nemesis. He develops a drink problem and is sent to a remote, snowy rehab place. People get killed off one by one. And who's doing the killing? Why, the [[spoiler:EvilBrit]]! As you'd expect from a film populated by alcoholics, you get an {{Anvilicious}} message:
-->"Booze may be a slow-burner, but it's still suicide."
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'''s ''Film/DirtyDancing'' parody spoofed not just the movie, put pointed out the cliche used in the scene they were spoofing in each panel; a display of {{Lampshading}} that would have done Website/TVTropes proud.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'', TheMovie. It's easy to imagine little "DING!" noises and a counter display ratcheting up as each cliché goes by. The film makes for an impressive [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0145.html drinking game]].
* ''Film/TheExpendables'', but that's precisely the point.
** In fact, it hits up more tropes than expected, particularly during the middle section, which unfortunately bores those who knows exactly what the main character's going to decide to do, and just wants him to get on with it.
** ''Film/TheExpendables2'' was even worse, which admittedly made it even more enjoyable. The best example was when [[SacrificialLamb Billy "The Kid" Timmons]], [[TooHappyToLive the young guy who's hopelessly in love]], [[FatalFamilyPhoto showed Barney Ross a picture of his girlfriend]], and told him he wanted to [[{{Retirony}} quit but would finish the month]]. ''Every single person watching knew exactly what his fate was''. Hell, even ''the character he was talking to'' knew what his fate was. [[spoiler: And the movie delivers, on time and as expected, with just about the most [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice wonderfully over-the-top death scene possible.]]]]
* Self-aware in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', where Tom Cruise's character has a throwaway conversation with the local newsstand vendor involving each of them trying to wryly out-cliche the other.
* ''Film/GeminiMan'' is about an elite but aging assassin being chased by his 23-year-old clone. It is often seen as an inferior use of ''{{Film/Looper}}'''s premise. Many perceive it as [[DancingBear prioritizing special effects (and 4K/3D/120fps) over the plot]].
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' is chock-full of every action movie cliche most people have ever seen. If you want an explanation, look no further than [[http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/08/the-movie-non-review-gi-joe-the-rise-of-cobra/69002/ Christopher Orr's review of the movie,]] in which he decides to just let it speak for itself by providing 40 of the lines that sum up the entire plot and all of the typical one-liners and plot points it has. It's really a shame though, considering it had some great actors who did the best they could with the material they were given. Then again, for fans of the movie, this could be exactly what they liked about it.
%%* Ryuhei Kitamura isn't a terrifically subtle director, to say the least. He is, however, terrifically entertaining, which might explain why he was picked to direct ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars''.
%%* Those that dislike ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' consider it to be this; those that do enjoy it, however, consider it to be a decent film that's very [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools campy and doesn't take itself too seriously.]]
* The Hallmark Channel is famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) for heavily exploiting this, especially with their Christmas specials. The ChristmasSpecial usually consists of a woman who doesn't have someone to spend the holidays, later bumps into a guy that she later falls in love with, they solve the conflict of the story (usually consisting of giving the Christmas spirit to a [[TheScrooge holiday-hater]]), and ends with the main cast celebrating Christmas in the protagonist's house. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The writing tends to be cheesy, too.]] Regardless, many a fan consider these specials to be a GuiltyPleasure.
** A word of advice: If your TV's tuned in to Hallmark during Christmastime, ''do '''not''''' play a drinking game with the commercials for said long string of movies. You '''will''' collapse--especially if it involves the narration: "But she ''soon discovers''...that ''nothing'' is so/more X...as/than ''falling in love''." (Almost as frequent: "...as/than ''family''.")
* Done on purpose in ''Film/HardcoreHenry'' to give the movie some excuses for its UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective. The movie is a pretty unique example of this trope because it invokes ''videogame clichés'', not film clichés.
* Subverted in almost every possible way throughout ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', a film in which almost everything you expect in a World War II action film turns out exactly the opposite of what you'd expect.
** Unlike ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''... aside from the Normandy Beach scene, which broke some serious new ground in that genre.
* ''Film/IntoTheStorm2014'': It's a giant-killer-tornado film. A scrappy team of twister-hunters with an Obsessed JerkAss Leader, a slab of NewMeat, a Hot Single Mom Scientist, a [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Guy]] and a CoolCar are thrown together with a strict workaholic widower trying to raise two teenaged boys, and a couple of idiotic thrill-seeking yokels. Amazingly, [[spoiler: the black guy survives]], and the widower apparently ''doesn't'' [[spoiler: hook up with the hot scientist, even after saving her life]].
* ''Film/JupiterAscending''. A RagsToRoyalty PluckyGirl meets a NinjaPirateZombieRobot SuperSoldier and [[TheDulcineaEffect falls in love with him]], while they team up to fight through each member of a [[SiblingRivalry sibling]] [[AristocratsAreEvil villain trio]] who want to [[PeopleFarms destroy humanity]]. In the end, [[spoiler:the AGodAmI NonActionBigBad receives a DisneyVillainDeath, EverybodyLives, and the two protagonists get a RelationshipUpgrade]].
* Many Creator/QuentinTarantino movies are like this, but ''Film/KillBill'' is the poster child. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools And you will love]] [[RefugeInAudacity every last second.]]
%%* Part of the premise of ''Film/LastActionHero''.
* The Creator/AmyAdams flick ''Film/{{Leap Year|2010}}'' is not so much a film as it is the feeding every RomCom and {{Oireland}} cliche imaginable into a blender and making the audience drink the result.
* Creator/RennyHarlin's ''Film/TheLegendOfHercules'' is a perfect storm of AncientGrome clichés, including scenes blatantly ripping off ''Film/ThreeHundred'', ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', and ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}''.
* Parodied in ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' with this exchange:
-->'''Gen. Morters:''' Where's the microfilm, Mike?\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' I don't know, I gave it to York. I thought she was one of your men.\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Act in haste, repent in leisure.\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' But he who hesitates is lost.\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Never judge a book by its cover.\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' What you see is what you get.\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Loose lips, sink ships...\\
'''Mike [=McCracken=]:''' [[Music/TheBeatles Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing or fighting, my friend.]]\\
''[Gen. Morters, cornered, looks to Mr. Jigsaw]''\\
''[Mr. Jigsaw consults Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, shakes his head]''\\
'''Gen. Morters:''' Sorry Mike, no good.
* ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' has Creator/BrendanFraser delivering cliché one-liners every few seconds.
--> "I really hate mummies!"\\
"Time to go!"\\
"Here we go again!"
* It's nearly impossible to find a review of ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'' that ''doesn't'' point out how similar it is to earlier properties. Most commonly cited were ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', and ''Franchise/StarWars''.
* ''[[Film/NationalLampoon National Lampoon's Senior Trip]]'' is the bad/lazy version of this as the entire [[RagtagBunchofMisfits class]] is just one big checklist of student cliches from the HighSchoolHustler leader to TheStoner sidekick(s) to the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbians]] with special emphasis on [[BigFun Miosky,]] who's trying everything in his power to be the next John Belushi, plus [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero "date a blonde Jap."]] The ''only'' saving graces to this film is Matt Frewer as their [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter teacher,]] [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Kevin]] [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall McDonald]] playing an AxCrazy ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan out to kill them and [[Creator/TaraStrong Carla]] asking guys if they "want to screw."
* A common remark—for good or ill—seems to be that ''Film/Oblivion2013'' is made up out of other SF movies in general.
** A notorious sci-fi cliche was [[spoiler:aliens coming to Earth to steal our water. Though at least the alien is turning it into energy instead.]]
* ''Film/PacificRim'' once again shows us that Administrivia/TropesAreTools. The film manages to work with an absolute Cliché Storm of a plot that almost ''anyone'' who has seen a Kaiju movie can see coming from a mile away... but manages to make it work because Creator/GuillermoDelToro intended it as a Homage.
* ''Film/{{The Princess|2022}}'': '''Good Lord, where do we start?''' Pretty much every single PlotDevice, PlotTwist, RebelliousPrincess story, and even certain lines of dialogue, are either very obvious to the watcher, or based on cliche's that have been heard countless times before in countless other action, medieval, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs medieval-action]] movies. To say the films' story is an ExcusePlot to see some choreographed action is something of an understatement.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''-featured fantasy film ''Film/{{Quest of the Delta Knights}}'' has the BigBad saying things like: "I grow weary of your antics, beggar man!" Ironically, and with no explanation whatever, both the BigBad and the old man were played by David Warner. The movie was a thinly-veiled attempt to do ''Franchise/StarWars'' in a fantasy setting long before ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'' made it cool, and that's how they linked the Darth Vader and Obi-Wan characters. It's not ''much'' of an explanation, but it does seem ''slightly'' less random when you realize that.
* The ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' contains so many cliches from every zombie, sci-fi and buddy action film in the past twenty years before release that it is near impossible to find something original in them. EasyAmnesia, {{Expendable Clone}}s, GunsAkimbo, StuffBlowingUp, BulletTime, and near shot-for-shot copying of scenes from ''Film/TheMatrix''. The films were one [[LukeIAmYourFather long-lost relative]] away from hitting every major cliché in the book... and then the last installment used ''that'' one, too.
* Discussed in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' as the setup for an action punchline:
-->'''The Operative''': "Nothing here is what it seems. He's ''not'' [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the plucky hero]]; the Alliance isn't [[TheEmpire some evil Empire]]; this is ''not'' the grand arena --"
-->'''Inara''': "-- and that's not incense."
-->''BOOM!''
* The biggest criticism of ''Film/ShutIn'' is that it relies too much on traditional horror clichés, such as {{Jump Scare}}s and dream sequences, instead of properly building tension to provide scares. Some reviews even stated that the twist where [[spoiler:Stephen is revealed to have been faking paralysis the whole time]] is easy to predict.
* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}''. It ''is'' a preteen chick flick comedy, but this is ridiculous. It doesn't help that most of the actresses are fresh out of Barbizon and don't even realize how many {{Dead Horse Trope}}s they're playing straight.
* ''Film/SmallSoldiers'': Everything Hazard says is made of this, from the "roll call" when he activates his troops to his combat banter. The best bit is when he gives a hilariously cliché-ridden speech to his "soldiers", in which he actually contradicts himself by the end.
--> "Soldiers, no poor sap ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by being all that he can be. Damn the torpedoes, or give me death! Eternal vigilance is the price of duty. And, to the victors go the spoils. So remember: you are the best of the best of the few and the proud. So ask not what your country can do for you, only regret that you have but one life to live!"
%%* Creator/RogerEbert's review of ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' was [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19941028/REVIEWS/410280308/1023 one long checklist of the cliches involved.]]
* The three ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' movies. These movies are all about irony, producers claim. [[ParodyRetcon Whether or not that works for you is your call.]] The first and [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder third movies]] are intentional satire, [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation the second movie]] is closer to this, with some heavy-handed satire.
* The portions we hear of the speech the Federation President gives at Khitomer in ''Film/{{Star Trek VI|The Undiscovered Country}}'' are a political/diplomatic speech cliché storm.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** It's somewhat hard to believe nowadays, since the movie itself has been [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny so heavily copied]], but the first ''Star Wars'' movie, ''Film/ANewHope'', was intentionally written as a checklist of HighFantasy clichés given clichéd--although [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome absolutely gorgeous]]--SpaceOpera window dressing. In this case, the frisson between the two genres (as well as the {{Spectacle}}) [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste is entirely the point]].
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' reuses many of the most memorable plot devices and tropes of ''A New Hope'' (an orphaned protagonist on a desert planet, a PlanetDestroyer super-weapon, and a villain who is a blatant {{Expy}} of Darth Vader, to name only three). However, the next movie in the new trilogy, ''Film/TheLastJedi'', managed to avoid being a Cliche Storm and created an identity of its own. [[BrokenBase As for whether that was a good thing...]]
** One of the common criticisms of ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' was how formulaic it is (it's been speculated the creators intentionally played it safe due to the controversy over ''The Last Jedi''). By the end of the first act, it's easy to predict how the film will play out, especially since it's similar to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi.'' The hero is [[LukeIAmYourFather related to a bad guy]] who wants them to join the dark side. The mentor [[MentorOccupationalHazard dies]] heroically partway through to raise the stakes. The heroes make a {{last stand}} against the bad guys who are equipped with planet-destroying weaponry, a bunch of extras/side characters get whacked, but they prevail at the last minute by blowing up the bad guy's main ship and getting an [[TheCavalry unexpected cavalry arrival]].[[note]] unexpected for the ''characters'', rather than the audience [[/note]] The hero goes to confront the BigBad alone where they're tempted one last time to join the dark side, [[spoiler:and they are saved by the sacrifice of [[RedemptionEqualsDeath a redeemed villain]]]].
* ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi'' has a terribly huge number of action movie clichés, even (perhaps especially) ones which contradict the canon and tone of the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series.
** So did [[Film/StreetFighter the original movie]], but unlike ''Legend of Chun Li'', [[SoBadItsGood it didn't suck as hard]].
* The 2007 hard sci-fi epic ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' borrows heavily from both ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'', along with a host of other influences in the serious science fiction family of movies. The movie works though, mostly because you don't see its type very often anymore.
* ''Limit of Love: Umizaru''. Up until the last 10 minutes, you can easily predict not only every single "unexpected twist" but every single line the characters are about to say. Even if we count that last moment where [[spoiler: the ship sinks with the protagonist still on board]], the ending is still the same. Just goes to prove it, you can only make so many movies about a sinking ship.
* ''Film/WhenTimeRanOut''. Most of the Cliches used ''in'' that movie were the ones Irwin Allen himself have been credited with creating. (It's eerily similar to the 1972 film adaptation of ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'', complete with an elderly woman fleeing for an escape dying of a heart attack and the majority of the people who stayed behind dying.)
* The complete filmography of action movie directors Creator/RolandEmmerich, Creator/MichaelBay, and Creator/StephenSommers, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that's not to say they aren't entertaining]].
** Sommers in particular [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this. In his commentary for ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', he notes that if you have a jungle full of ruins, you ''have'' to have {{Shrunken Head}}s.
** He also claims that movie rules require [[ChandlersLaw a pointed gun]] to make sufficient rattling noises--about the level created by a large garbage bag full of cans is a good starting point.
* ''Film/MaidInManhattan'' contains pretty much most RomanticComedy tropes, since it's a Cinderella retelling set in a Manhattan hotel.
* ''Film/StatusUpdate'' has been criticized for basically being a Disney Channel movie that made it to the big screen, due to the trailer including many tired plot beats: an unpopular guy becomes popular through magical means, a LoveTriangle between him, the AlphaBitch and the NiceGirl ensues, he realizes that the popularity isn't what he wanted and resolves to get his old life back.
* ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'': SETH's speech, which is both bombastic and awesome and hilarious for sounding like every other speech given by an AIIsACrapshoot villain ever. At the end he even basically [[AGodAmI declares himself God]].
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