Review Declined as "Badly Formatted" Why? What?

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My review was declined for the reason that it was "Badly Formatted," with the further supposed explanation, "Your contribution has been declined.Your contribution did not meet our formatting standards. Please review our submission guides."

So, I don't know what that's about. I see other posts on here regarding formatting for data other than reviews, but this is the first I've seen of it for a review.  I entered the review the same way I've posted hundreds of others on IMDb before--by copy and paste from a notepad or word program without any html, brackets or other things I'm aware of that are proscribed.

Here's the number for it: #190804-192816-618804

I suppose, at least, a "reason" was provided for the rejection this time.  I had another review for which my edit of it was initially declined for the reason of "Other."  I resubmitted it, and it went through.  Should I do the same again for this one?  Thanks.
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Hi IMDbmember,

Thanks for your post.

I've reviewed the review and can see this was likely rejected due to the inclusion of apparent offensive terms - such as: 

"The oddest aspect of this adaptation is the focus on the cane of Gaylord"

However, I can see this is simply the name of the character from one of the characters in the title.

Please re-submit this user review and our editors can re-check this for you and approve it to the database - if you have further issues, please don't hesitate to let me know. 

Cheers,

Joel