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Crappy film

A lot of fun.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The sequel lacks the charm of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with a plot that seems to be cobbled up together like it is a greatest hits package and Sonny (Dev Patel) the wide eyed hotel entrepreneur being even more irritating.Luckily Jaipur is picture pretty, the British pensioners from the first movie are still alive and joined by others.The main interest is between Douglas (Bill Nighy) who is a local tour guide and his blossoming relationship with Evelyn (Judi Dench) who works as fabric buyer. Things threaten to take a turn for the worse when Douglas's bitter wife turns up and asks for a divorce.Muriel (Maggie Smith) is now the co manager of the hotel and she and Sonny are looking for investors for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Sonny also has his wedding to prepare for and a rival who purchases the property he is interested in.Even worse, a writer arrives at the hotel Guy Chambers (Richard Gere) who Sonny is convinced is the hotel inspector sent from the USA, Chambers takes an unhealthy interest in his mother.The film was just a bit too long and lacked the resonance and emotion of the first film. At least it ends on a Bollywood note.

Considering how great the first film was, 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' had a lot to live up to. Despite the mixed reviews, the cast are such a talented one and it did look interesting. Did also question the point initially and, considering that sequels with a few exceptions rarely are as good or better than their predecessors, expectations were sort of mixed.Finally seeing 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', it was moderately enjoyable but with a fair share of faults so was a disappointment compared to its predecessor. Not as bad as some reviewers have made out, but it could have been much better and the complaints/criticisms are understandable and legitimate from personal opinion.Starting with 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel's' faults, it does get off to a slow start with the first half an hour taking too long to get going. There are also too many subplots, some of them not developed enough, slow the film down and are a little too contrived-ly written.Not all the cast work this time either. Dev Patel and Tamsin Grieg are annoying, but worst of all is an out of place Richard Gere who is very wooden as a character that was better left out. A little too heavy on the clichés too, with not enough done to make them interesting.However, 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' looks absolutely splendid. It's gorgeously filmed and the scenery is to die for. As is the lovely and authentic in flavour music.Parts of the script do work well, though the first film achieved a better balance of funny comedy and heartfelt drama. There are some heart-warming life lessons, some funny witty moments, uplifting warmth and cosy charm. The story is problematic, being a bit slow going in places and bloated, but does boast enough heart and charm, the ending is very touching.Of the talented cast, the standouts are the always good Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. Bill Nighy is a lot of fun too as is Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup similarly charms. One does miss Tom Wilkinson however.In summary, second best but not second rate. 6/10 Bethany Cox

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the sequel to the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Once more we meet the British pensioners, now permanently living at the hotel. Each one of them occupies themselves with different kinds of work and also helping out at the hotel. Everything seems to work out great, but problems lies just around the corner for everyone. Sonny the Indian, who runs the hotel, wants to expand and invest in another property but at the same time he is heading for the altar with his girlfriend Sunaina. The whole thing naturally goes very wrong and on top of it all, they are expecting an undercover hotel inspector for the eventual expand.The Second Best Exotic Marigod Hotel is like the first film, incredibly beautiful to watch. Many scenes are shot out on the streets of India, and we experience the crowd and the colors of the country. The film is actually a very good commercial film for India as a nation, and I myself would very much like to visit the country after watching these two films. Almost the entire cast from the first film returns. The list of actors is long with names like Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilton. Also Richard Gere takes part in the cast as an American visiting the hotel.The film is very pleasant to watch and works well against the culture of India in the background. All the different characters have different relations to each other, some being romantically and others just on friendly terms. This is at the same time the weak spot of the film. It does become quite messy after a while to keep track on all the stories and at the same time follow Sonny with his hotel. I also think it's a pity that the British actors very rarely interact with each other. They all have their own stories on the side and they rarely cross paths. With such a heavy list of actors I did hope for more encounters and intrigues between the main characters. Now instead, they are having them with other people barely involved with the main story.Another problem is that it feels as if the director wanted to let all the characters take up more room in this film. This leads us to not really getting close to anyone. I thought they handled this better in the first film because they focused the story more on a few of the characters and let the others be sort of a supporting cast.The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is still watchable if you liked the first film and you shouldn't watch this if you haven't seen that one. To see all these fantastic British actors together are a delight, but as the title of the film also insinuates, this installment is only second best compared to the first one.David Lindahl - www.filmografen.se

Maggie Smith is all wrinkled up and she represents a light ending in India as a co-manager of a rather successful hotel whose proprietor, Dev Patel, really laying on his thick Indian accent, attempts to expand but apparently to no avail.Richard Gere is the supposed writer who visits and is writing a book on getting older. Of course, Gere isn't what he is supposed to be and is soon found to be a hotel evaluator as is the case with another guest. At the same time, he woos Patel's mother and finally recuse himself from evaluation for obvious reasons.Both the Smith and Dench characters are commonly giving advice. While Smith represents life ending, Dench is still going strong working now for a company buying up all sorts of fabrics.In the end at his marriage ceremony, Patel dances away as he did in the final scene of his hit the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire."