Spoon-fed Millionaire

Rating: 3/10 (21 June 2009)

Is there anyone else that this self-serving schlock missed so badly with? It seems obvious to me that Mr. Boyle, having missed every time with western audiences thought that he could cash in with the Bollywood crowd and score himself some Rupees for his overdue retirement party. To make such an unrealistic, manipulative film and simply label it a "fairy tale" is an insult to every well-written fairy tale ever penned and to use (and I emphasize the word "use") the residents of these slums in such a manner that undermines their abject poverty is boo worthy. Danny Boyle should be booed for having tried to manipulate so many people's emotions with such flaccid trash. Stop bandwagoning this miserable piece of sub-art, Slumdog apologists and cultivate yourself an objective opinion. The emperor is wearing no clothes, ladies and gentlemen and his name is Danny Boyle.