Tom Meek from "Film Threat" described the film as "Insipid, maudlin mush". "Walghe" means "tasteless", "insipid", or "sickly", and "voghel" means "bird". Rita Kempley of "The Washington Post" called it "insipid, tiresome and full of gross kids". Gordon marries a girl named Sylvia, whom Claudia finds insipid and boring. Weiss described the graphics as blocky and insipid, the sound as repetitive and derivative. Singaporeans are characterized as consumerists of insipid taste. Though the fruit is edible, it is rather insipid when eaten raw. Dan Jolin at "Empire" panned "Walking with Dinosaurs" as "insipid, bloodless, pseudo-educational and offensively anthropomorphised". The taste is described as sweet but rather "insipid". "Hyphen" wrote that Whitlock had "reinforced the insipid and insidious 'small Asian penis' stereotype". He found the composition to be uncoordinated, and the Victorian statuary "poor and insipid". As a result, sometimes some very insipid comedy films hit the screen. Early critics declared the design "insipid". Its main flaw, in his view, was the "blank and insipid" acting of Kylie Minogue. Joyce and Toby found the film inspiring, and Harvey found it insipid.