Disgusting and insulting money-making crap

Rating: 3/10 (15 July 2009)

During the whole movie, I was already very annoyed at seeing how what is the actual everyday struggle of hundreds of children in India, was treated as a mere video-clip devoid of all genuine emotional involvement, as a colorful and Hollywood-esquire fantasy for rich and fat westerners who see India as a huge larger-than-life zoo.
At the end of the movie, when the old "love conquers all" tired cliché oh-so-nicely closes this mushy and soulless frantic mess, the annoyance turned into nausea. People really still buy this crap? Well, I don't.
The children are presented as mere pets. What the movie makers do with this movie, is exactly what the thugs do with the children in the movie: exploiting their cuteness with a such a cynicism that it ends up in pure irresponsible cruelty. Anything for the money. All ethics out.
This is morally revolting.
Danny Boyle once again celebrates (frantic, flashy, noisy, trendy, soulless) style over substance, at the expense of his soul: exploiting human misery as a mere prop, a tool to cash on moviegoers. With high praise at that. What sad, sad times we are living in.