Just entertaining - nothing special

Rating: 4/10 (1 February 2010)

I did not have high hopes for the movie in the first place given the way in which Amir Khan's last movie Ghazini (another over hyped movie) disappointed to the extent of giving a headache with unnecessary violence and loud sound effects (not to mention the copied storyline). 3 idiots disappointed too...! It has all the ingredients of an entertaining cinema, however it just goes overboard with so many clichés that by the time you are 30 minutes into the movie, you can predict the next turn of events that will happen. Heck! you could even predict the jokes! The most annoying parts were the supposedly funny moments - something which you have seen hundreds of time previously. Many of them seems to have been taken from email forwards that we regularly receive (remember the scene with mixing the examination papers, then pencil-pen astronaut scene, etc etc). Talk of originality .. !(the Five point someone controversy) The movie goes to extremes with emotions - why can't the story be slightly subtle? Everything had to be so loud, including the funny scenes - we are not in the Johnny-Lever/Govinda era anymore. Remember Khosla ka Ghosla anyone - that is funny and original.
"All izz Well" seems just an extension of "Jadu ki Jhappi" - no originality here as well..! Hirani must have thought if something worked so well earlier why not reuse it. Boman Irani disappoints too with a very a very annoying accent which I suppose the filmmakers thought it would add to the film's humor. Why couldn't we have some "fresh" face - choice of Boman as the professor was obvious.
Only good and refreshing was Omi's role as Chatur's - he did really well. Amir did pass off doing a 20 something college student - however his antics to play an overtly honest guy was really overdone in most parts.
Just an overall average movie - how it managed to do such business, I will never understand ! May be the hype helped. Again.