It is left to Kareena to salvage the show, which she does to an extent. In the end, the burden of a boring script is too overwhelming for her to leave an impact. Tooh hoots – sorry, two stars – for all of it, what else.

If you can take an overdose of violence without much logic, this is your film.

The first one worked for its bizarre novelty. Kick-Ass 2 tries banking on those unique traits. The film also had ready material to encash (it is based on a hit comic book series of the same name). Yet it doesn’t quite get the mood of the franchise right. What you have here is a formulaic rehash that never quite captures the maverick madness of the first film.

The film latches onto the 3D fad for obvious reasons, but the impact is lost out because lot of the action seems choppy and predictable.

I couldn’t help notice how the few good jokes here actually have nothing to do with the story. For an action comedy, that’s not funny.

Wholly catering to the little ones, The Smurfs 2 does a neat enough job blending real action with animation. The Paris visuals are a treat, too. But the film is low on original gags. While Gosnell’s trademark slapstick is in place, it lacks the gentle humour of the original Belgian series it is based on.

The Smurfs 2 is just not ‘smurf’ enough.

Not much the cast can do to salvage this one. Bajatey Raho would be your option this weekend only if you consider there is no other major Hindi release.

Fukrey caters the standard package of bromance that has been hot among Bolly buffs. It looked wild in the promos. Not the same can be said of the film itself. Fukrey would have worked better if the screenplay revealed more imagination.

The Deols thunder, the PYTs preen, the action is good and the comedy lame. Two extras in orangutan suits get to shake their booty to Sheila ki jawaani. The next level of Bollywood item dancing obviously, after Sunny Leone.

It is neither a spectacular mainstream adventure nor the genre-bender experiment you would expect from Shyamalan. Maybe, M. Night should forget boys who fight baboons and go back to boys who see dead people.

It was almost as if Preity Zinta had made the film in her heydays – the last decade – and brought it out of cold storage only now.