Mr Joe B. Carvalho

JBC is an over-the-top and loud slapstick comedy that you have to be in a large group and a really giggly mood to enjoy. It's often - by design - occasionally so crass and silly that it knowingly goes for the "it's so bad it's good" brand of humour.

...has few moments that stay with you, but a weak second half plays the spoilsport.

Debut director Samir Tewari's Mr. Joe B. Carvalho is not as funny as its title. It's impossible to endure a below-par film for just a couple of funny moments. Too bad, really. It would have been wonderful to begin the New Year with a crackling comedy.

What could have been a genuinely funny film with spoofs ends up being a nonsensical slapstick comedy.

With very little entertainment offered at the price of its ticket, Mr Joe B Carvalho is a feeble attempt that fails to provide any comic relief.

Watch this movie only if for you anything passes in the name of 'comedy'. The film deserves the one star it got for the bravery the makers of this film showed while making it.

If bad films could kill, this review would have reached out from beyond the graves to you. I haven't had such a terrible time at the movies in a while. The horrible mishmash of ridiculous dialogues, inane script and naive acting couldn't take this film anywhere. I am going with a 0.5/5 for the film and request you to refrain from watching it even when premiered on television.

There have been some bizarre, irreverent films that were also great fun. But those films have had some brilliant thinking gone into it. This one is surely not it. Avoid it.

...despite having actors like Arshad Warsi, Jaaved Jaffrey and Soha Ali Khan Mr Joe B Carvalho fails miserably and is devoid of any reason for one to watch this film. Best avoided.

...that annoying friend who won't stop forcing those unbearable PJs on you as you try to laugh politely while one eye seeks an emergency exit. At the end of the film, you slip off your seat, onto your knees and beg Mr Joe B Carvalho — please ab maar daalo.

Styled as somewhat of a surreal comedy, Tewari's film has some bizarre situations that are impossible to make sense of or make us laugh.

There is one truly bright spark in the film. Jaffrey's performance brings back memories of the time he turned a VJing gig into a variety show with Timex Timepass.