over-hyped senseless mess

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2009)

I hated 'The English Patient', hated 'Benjamin Button', and I advise the director to take his Oscar and do what Jamal did when he was locked in that toilet as a kid... then ask your mommy to wash it all off.
This is a disturbing film, definitely not for kids. The torture scene... well, why would someone playing WWTBAM be tortured by electric shock? He throws up blood, is beaten, etc. And then, all seems well, as he is served coffee and has no scars. huh? Did I say HUH?
Yes, the real India is shown. It is indeed mostly slums. But you know vat boyz & girlz?! So is most of Mexico, Brazil, Africa, China, Romania, Albania, etc. Watch a PBS documentary on the world's slums instead. Overpopulation is to blame, specifically in South America, Africa, Asia, especially in China and India.
Now how is it that ugly dark kids turn out to be tall handsome bleached personages? Oh ye, and they do speak English quiet well, don't they?
Where did Salim get the gun to shoot Maman? Why did he shoot the gangster in the end and throw all that $$$ in the tub, and where did the $$$ come from?
How in the wide world of alien cattle mutilations did Jamal end up on the show in the first place? What imbecile doesn't know the 3rd Musketeer was Aramis?
What's with the dancing in the end? Is it supposed to signify something? Oh yes, Jamal and Latika walk off into the sunset to live out their lives in bliss and happiness. Got it.