After giving us Waqt (I still shudder at the memory), Namastey London (Katrina Kaif speaking out of a snorkel), London Dreams (Ajay the star”rocking” London), he throws at us his most recent offering – Action Replayy. I will not debate the issue of heavy “inspiration” from Back To The Future, because thinking of these two films together is nothing short of sacrilege. Nor will I debate the logic of the Time-machine in the living room, the motherless boy and fatherless girl, and the young guy with the Afro. To do that would require deep thoughts, and Jack Handey is on vacation today. Does Vipul know the basics of film-making?
1. The biggest audience draw, the hero, is shown with buck teeth and scraggly hair throughout. Putting Akshay Kumar in an ugly persona to make it seem like he is acting well – that did not work.
2. The leading lady is decked out in LOUD faux-70s costumes and she flounces in and out of scenes as if there is no other actor sharing screen space with her.
3. The 70s were not ugly and loud – nor did they look like bad film sets. Not one part of this film is real in look.
4. A series of gags and funny one-liners (and there were precious few of those) cannot be strung together into a film. OK – it worked once in Singh Is Kingg (who knows why), but it will not work again (fingers crossed).
5. Songs should be planned and should spring from some vision that integrates them into the film. Every song was picturized as though the director woke up to the fact that there would be a song that day and somehow cobbled it together. No song had any need or meaning within the context of the film.
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Try your hands on Hot tub time machine (I think the movie was more closer in concept). It is a gross but entertaining movie.
ReplyDeleteAR was a boring movie. I can not classify it as bad (I have seen much worse) but it is neither good. I thought both Aish and Akshay were too old for all the pranks. Micheal J fox was integerated very nicely in BTTF plot here the guy goes in time and half of time he is standing there and laughing , clapping and no one asking him about his identity.
Agree Khanabadosh - the film was deadly dull. A film can be crass or class and work or not, but if it is dull then it will surely tank. I have never been so bored in a long time.
ReplyDelete"AR was a boring movie. I can not classify it as bad (I have seen much worse) but it is neither good. I thought both Aish and Akshay were too old for all the pranks. Micheal J fox was integerated very nicely in BTTF plot here the guy goes in time and half of time he is standing there and laughing , clapping and no one asking him about his identity. "
ReplyDeleteAgree completely. I watched 40 minutes of it - it was so boring and I just turned the volume down and did not care what was going on in the movie. Have not seen BTTF but the guy standing there and laughing , clapping and running was all ridiculous.
and it becomes more ridiculous if you buy ticket (even for a 5 year kid), popcorn, Soda and gas.
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