21. Maureen O'Hara is a joy as she overacts her way through this wisp of a movie. 22. Ryan, who always seems to have a saintly aureole of light around her, overacts in spades. 23. Stern overacts , and the proceedings are routinely artificially manipulated so that the result is ostensibly hilarious cacophony. 24. A " ham " is " an ineffective or overemphatic actor, one who rants or overacts ". 25. But they overact _ for instance when they laugh it is exaggerated and corny and goes on too long. 26. Larry Miller, as the IRS agent who imagines himself as Clint Eastwood, is made to overact voraciously. 27. Everybody overacts , shrilly screeching at each other, and the laughable dialogue doesn't help their cause. 28. Moreover, his subtle gestures and a refusal to overact suggest that he may have found his metier in this repertory. 29. Kline overacts physically and emotionally, Flockhart is entertaining in a broad manner, and Pfeiffer renders a strenuously theatrical performance. 30. The cast overacts , and much of the plot is worthy of a " Hogan's Heroes " episode.
