De Dana Dan (2009)

To me, this movie is perfection.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Blistering performances.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Most people say this is stupid movie making with no story and a rubbish movie, that is simply not true. This movie does have a story, a smart one at that also. Most people say it doesn't, what were you people doing when the movie was playing its a simple story and a different from all the other comedies we've been seeing.The songs were pretty good even thought they were just chucked in but its PRIYADARSHAN so we know stupid stuff will be happeningPriyadarshan does a good job at directing. There are so many characters in one hotel about 26 and he manages to make them all have a fair part in the movie.The performances were awesome Akshay was fantastic his face expressions to the way he talks is hilarious. Suneil does very good too and makes us laugh. Everybody else does a great job to making it more hilariousIn the end de dana dan is a slapstick comedy that does make you laugh. I don't know what people were expecting that made it a let down. Of course it not 3 idiots but as far as slapstick's go it is funny unlike a lot coming out recently like Rascals. So leave your brains behind and go watch this crazy and hilarious comedy.

De Dana Dan directed by Priyadarshan is awful! This Comedy movie turns out to be a horror one.Seriously! You actually tend to cry not because of the jokes but because you have wasted your time and money on this movie.The only thing that made me smile in this movie was Johnny Lever.He simply is mind-blowing! Talking about the story,was there supposed to be a story? Screenplay is penned very bad.The music is below average Performances-Johnny Lever is the star of the show!Akshay Kumar is okay.Suniel Shetty is average,Katrina Kaif is fair.Sameera Reddy is bad. Asrani is plain.Chunky Pandey is decent.Paresh Rawal,Vikram Gokhale,Rajpal Yadav,Aditi Govitrikar,Shakti Kapoor,Neha Dhupia,Tinnu Anand,Manoj Joshi,Sharat Saxena and Archana Puran Singh ham.On the whole,De Dana Dan is a letdown.

Lets start off with the actors. The Hera Pheri trio (Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal)all performed well with great comic timing as usual. Sameera Reddy and Katrina Kaif were also good. They starred opposite Akshay and Suniel (bet you can guess who was opposite to who) and did a half-decent job of it.Others such as Rajpal Yadav,Manoj Joshi and Chunkey Pandey also did well. The music is also good. The tracks 'Baamulaiza' and 'Rishte Naate' are, in my opinion, the best two of the bunch. It is a film that, when you watch, you shouldn't bother about how good the story is (it is OK). Instead, you should be looking for some comedy. Believe me, this has more than some comedy in it. Verdict: Mindless entertainment. Watch it - 8.5/10

Film by film, the stories and the comedies of Priyadarshan are getting complicated but still looks similar. Especially, in the endings when all the actors in the movie end up being at one place and it becomes all harakiri.The level of comedy movies has gone drastically down this year. All the Best was well below par and so is this one, probably a little better than All The Best. I just can't seem to comprehend after seeing some of the comments made by the users that they laughed for 2 hours 45 minutes. If someone can laugh on Sunil Shetty's and Sameera Reddy's scenes, then they seem to be brothers with Navjot Singh Sidhu.The movie actually had a very good script and a good screen play but it lacked good comedy in most of the scenes. It was getting to predictable. After a long time, Johnny Lever has delivered to his potential. Akshay Kumar was good but not amazing and moreover he was kept out of the movie for almost an hour because of the script. Paresh Rawal had a good role but then again, monotonous.All in All, its a 5-6/10 movie...