Entertainment (2014)

i must have seen a different film!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Once again an Akshay Kumar comedy which is pathetic from the word go. Frankly, he is a very good comic actor but year on year, he comes up with comic duds. It Entertainment is the same.What angered me off was that there is a gr8 plot in this film. Akshay's father in his will gives the property to his dog. Akshay wants to kill the dog but fails. When the dog saves his life, he realizes his mistake and leaves. But the property is taken away by two scheming uncles called Karan Arjun. So Akshay is back to redeem himself.Sounds good. But the writing and directing is so lame that I lost my senses. There was so much potential to make a fabulous comedy but its so juvenile and nothing made me laugh. The only good track was the two brothers Karan Arjun remembering their mother during each fight.Everyone from Akshay Kumar to Prakash Raj to Johnny Lever is wasted and most of them just ham their way through and overact.The dog..poor guy has nothing to do except a few stunt sequences. I pity the dog after watching the film.

In comparison to Hollywood, Bollywood has had about a dozen movies where an animal has played a significant and important role, such as the internationally acclaimed movie Life of PI (tiger), the disaster Ajay Devgan movie Himmatwala (tiger), one of the biggest hit movies of that year Teri Meherebaniya (moti the dog), the hit movie Aankhen (monkey), Betaaj Badshah(cheetah), Doodh Ka Karz(a snake), Maa (dooby the dog), Coolie (Eagle), the blockbuster Nagina (snake), the blockbuster Hum Aapke Hai Koon(tuffy the dog), super-hit Maine Pyar Kiya (kabutar the dove), and of course the super-hit Haathi Meri Saathi(Ramu the elephant).So in 2014 we have Junior the dog in Entertainment. There is a famous saying: A DOG IS A MAN'S BEST FRIEND. This is well demonstrated and proved in this movie. Hope people of the east would take this to heart as in the western world in majority of cases domestic animals are well looked after in comparison to other parts of the world. Well acted by Junior the dog who truly deserves an award in comparison to the other characters in the movie. OK movie for the kids though some comedy may take time to digest. Hope in future Bollywood has more movies with animals playing important roles as evident the movies mentioned above and in majority of case have done well at the box-office.

Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 0.5/5 starsDreadful, banal, trite, and a total waste of time - this has got to be Akshay Kumar's worst movie bar none. The jokes are unbearably bad and fall completely flat - the humor is not just cringe-worthy, it's blatantly forced and absolutely mind-numbing. Sample few of these lines – "I Rajni-can't", "Jaisi bharni waisi Mamta Kulkarni", "Tere to Jacq- ueline lag gaye", "Yeh Sonakshi- seena tan ke kaha ja rahe ho".The plot and narration are not just non-existent, they reach the point where you actually question your decision of falling for the whole ruse of leaving your brains elsewhere and watching the film - something such films and filmmakers pride themselves on these days; whatever is their reasoning I wouldn't even dare to comprehend it. You regret your decision to the point where realization grabs a hold of you - and you don't have to wait for too long into the movie for this realization to dawn upon you – that this is where you should have drawn the line of falling for the whole "leave your brains behind" ho-hum. You now understand the difference between not using your brains while watching a simple, entertaining movie (read analyzing every single scene of a movie just meant to entertain you), and wantonly repressing your commonsense to be blindly follow the tide. More was expected from Director-writer duo, Sajid-Farhad, as they have delivered decent efforts in the past such as "All The Best", "Housefull 2", " Bol Bachchan", and "Chennai Express". Guess, this highlights the need of a competent Director to handle a script (Rohit Shetty has directed most of their erstwhile screenplays).Barring Akshay Kumar and Johnny Lever, every other actor on screen completely hashes their parts, which may again be in part due to the Director duo's briefing of their roles. Alas, despite Kumar and Lever bringing all their experience to the fore and somehow managing to salvage their weakly scripted parts, they can't do enough to salvage the deplorable proceedings on film. Krsihna Abhishek is the worst of the lot. He isn't just over-the-top - which is necessary for some characterizations – he completely over-the-hill and comes across as jarring and garish. Goes to show that every stand-up comedian isn't automatically suited for big-screen comedic roles. Making people laugh on stage with a stand-up act and performing before the camera are two very disparate things. Prakash Raj and Sonu Sood are completely wasted, while Tamannaah Bhatia still can't act to save her life– which isn't half as bad cause she at least delivers what we expect from her, something that can't be said for anything else unfolding on screen. Mithun Chakraborty is given the most poorly written role and hackneyed dialogs of his career, and he hams it up to the point that you forget this is after all a 3-time National Award winning and 2-time Filmfare winning actor.If "Entertainment" could be summed up in one sentence, then this statement would do it justice: "Avoid at all cost if you possess even a semblance of commonsense and value its existence as part of what helps you think as a rational human being."

It's Entertainment brings together the team of Akshay Kumar, Tamannah Bhatia, Mithun, Johnny Lever, Krishna, Sonu Sood, and Prakash Raj. Each and every actor has done a fine job for their respective roles. The hilarious one liners and effective corny humor manages to make you laugh throughout the movie. There are a few patches where the film does drag, but the first half is full of fun and the later part of the second half picks the film back up. Of them all, it is surely Akshay who stands tall with his wonderful comic timing, with an impeccable ability to make a variety of expressions. This is his comfort zone and he surely excels! Tamannah is there for glamour and surely is pleasant to the eyes. The dog is quite cute and the dog's antics are sure to make kids very happy. The movie is a complete family entertainer. The film's title surely lives up to its name. It promises does of entertainment!