It’s been a while since a movie maintained a huge grin on my face from start to end, and I suspect you’ll experience something similar. This is the movie that ushers in the next generation of movies, the movie that creates a whole new legion of geeks, the movie that will be embalmed in pop culture for decades. This is truly something special, and hopefully just the first in a franchise.

Ranbir, Anushka’s sizzling chemisty can’t save boring second half…However, make of it what you will, but for all its weaknesses, what Bombay Velvet lacks in complexity, it ultimately makes up for with its sheer beauty.

Piku glides over all of these heavy-duty themes with breezy lightness and consistent, well-timed comedy. This is a road trip movie after all, and it’s got hysterical, rapid-fire montage of cuts of the back and forth between the trio of Piku, Bhaskkor and Rana. The teeny bit of melodrama is handled beautifully by shuffling laughs and tears together like a pack of cards, making Piku one of the more emotionally honest films to have come from the industry.

The lack of good jokes are attempted to be padded on by very loud noises, both from the stars and the ensuing action they get embroiled in, and it becomes more irritating than fun. It’s a train wreck from start to end, and it’s not the least bit enjoyable.

They know that it’s the familiar stuff that makes kids tick, and they’ve struck a fine balance between delivering all that we love and adore about SpongeBob, and the ‘newness’ that he suddenly finds himself in. As always the voice work is adorable, as is the soundtrack. There’s really nothing much to complain about, aside from the fact that this film will probably go under the radar. So take your kids to the theatre, and have fun.

The stunningly clichéd script is brought to life by debutant Justin Reardon’s flashy direction in which we are ‘swept into’ Me’s life with quirky camerawork. The film cuts to different time zones, and even different countries, and Me even becomes Oriental for a while – it’s all showy work but it seems more like a director’s advertising showreel rather than a completely piece of cinema. With a better script, and a better production that guarantees him a solid release, Reardon can surely make a good movie, this one ultimately is a very boring and forgettable one.

Akshay Kumar remakes a Telegu version of a Tamil film and it’s a disaster. The only ray of light in this rumbling assault of stupidity is that the film is only two hours and ten minutes long, short enough to return home and assuage your grief by browsing Vijaykanth’s resplendent clips on YouTube.

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts have never been so likeable, nor have Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. They’re all perfectly cast and perfectly convincing, complemented by crackerjack dialogue. The film has released in limited screens in India, if you find a theater playing this movie I highly recommend you catch it as soon as possible.

To its credit, Jai Ho Democracy doesn’t have the grating melodrama of similarly themed films like Kya Dilli Kya Lahore and the only thing that changes in the narrative is the outlandishness of the plot and characters. It’s a pity that the film opted to choose over-the-top buffoonery over well-conceived satire. Its a missed opportunity.

While ‘Age of Ultron’ has all the ingredients of a good superhero movie, it’s sheer scale is its undoing. There are too many characters to be explored properly and the action is ‘unfeeling’.