Golmaal 3: a hilarious fitting sequel
Monday, November 08, 2010 | Author: Joseph Thankachan
With Golmaal 3 Rohit Shetty manages successfully to tickle those bones which were dead after watching this year's horrible zombie comedies like Khatta Meetha. Relying heavily on the chemistry of its ensemble cast with a virtually non-existent script the movie is a real treat to watch. If the first ten minutes is left to the fore gang led by Ajay Devgn, the last ten minutes proves why Johnny Lever is still the king of comedy. Adorned by PJs, brainless dialogues and some really funny scenes the movie scores in the first 15 minutes itself. Ajay Devgn is good as a short tempered man who has his lid off when he sees someone pointing a finger, he s accompanied by his brother Shreyas Talpade, who has a stammer. This family is headed by their single mom whose love for Mithun reinvigorates after meeting him since long. Mithun plays a bus driver character a single father who has adopted Arshad, Kunal and Tusshar the mute. Kareena plays the character in helping the love interests but the bigger trouble is to merge the 2 sets of siblings which sparks of a series of hilarious events. But this is the latter half which apparently is bogged down with an emotional scene in between which literally kills the fun part (a big mistake), else the first part is really funny when Ajay and Shreyas along with Kareena try to sabotage Kunal, Arshad and Tusshar's business and vice versa. In between are really funny scenes of Johnny Lever and his gang ie Vrajesh and Sanjay Mishra. Johnny has this character of a don who suffers from amnesia like Ghajini and his transition into different persona are out of the world. Meanwhile Mukesh Tiwari reprises his role of Vasooli bhai and gets cheated around as usual. The movie is absolute fun in the first half but gets a sudden break with a not so required emotional scene. The ending could have been more boring had Johnny Lever not shown his antics. Mithun packs a punch in his role, is funny in short bursts but good ones, one of his dialogues or rather spate of killer dialogues with Prem Chopra (as his love interest's rich dad) is as follows "jiske ghar seeshe ke hote hain woh basement main jaakar kapde change karte hain". Another scene worth mentioning is a mock/mute enacting of pushing up various stuffs up the other sibling gangs arse. Rohit's direction is good because of the fact he had no script weight, he was able to get some really good scenes, including a retro altercation scene of the wannabe husband and a rich dad with the music of those times.
Overall the movie is a total brainless must watch with a gang of friends.
Due Date: lacks the killer punch that Hangover had
Friday, November 05, 2010 | Author: Joseph Thankachan

After watching this movie I couldn't believe that this came from the same team who got the absolutely amazing hilarious movie The Hangover. The movie is an ok watch but does it leave the impression that Hangover left you with? Nay, the movie doesn't even come close to the epic predecessor. Although it borrows a lot of scenes from its predecessor like the scene of jerking, getting high on drugs, the gang is replaced by the border police and the kid replaced by a dog here.
The movie is hilarious in bouts and some scenes does tickle laughs but overall its an okay ride. The movie seems like heavily inspired from a Steve Martin classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles which shows a road trip of a man eager to reach his home and who meets a nerd on the way and a series of hilarious unfortunate events. Many scenes look like inspired by this movie. For e.g. the latter movie starts with protagonists meeting on the plane, ending their journey on the automobiles, the automobile getting destroyed totally, and before that the one of the characters searching for the rented automobile in the stop. While Steve Martin plays the sophisticated sort of smart fellow in planes, trains and automobiles, which here is played by Robert Downey, the role of an irritant ass played by John here is done by Zach. The movie has few memorable totally laughable scenes which include Zach and his dog jerking off, Zach Downey and Jamie drinking the ashes of Zach's father as coffee, Zach impersonating Marlon Brando as GodFather and Zach is given a series of roles to play by Downey who believes he is shit as an actor. Apart from these the movie is forgettable and atleast for me doesn't figure as my personal fav. The movie has got average ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and good ratings on imdb which is bound to come down as the more ratings come.
As actors the movie is completed Zach's pudding. He pulls off a really good role as a irritating stupid aspiring actor who plans to make it big in Hollywood. He does total justice to his character and his character overshadows everyone. He has a bigger role than what he had in Hangover and is good. Robert Downey seems a misfit, is unable to do justice to his part and is nowhere compared to Steve Martin's frustrated, tormented soul in P,T&A. Jamie Foxx comes as shadow and leaves as one.
Not a great watch but yes definitely a try for Zach's show.
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