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12. Karate Kid (4/10)
When Jaden Smith moves to China with her mom, he is bullied by local students and he is now scared. He somehow meets Jackie Chan, a former Kung Fu master who no remains drunk having some family history of his own. Together they both teach other different meaning of life and finally Jaden overcomes his fears. Strictly alright.

11. Sex And The City 2 (6.5/10)
Embarrassed to admit but I actually liked the film. It was cheesy, sp cheesy but funny at the same time. I saw it on the flight to India, but found myself laughing at a lot of scenes. Story wise there was nothing. As the name suggests, it was all about fashion and sex. You might hate it but hat the hell, I liked it.

10. The Perfect Murder (India/English) (5.5/10)
This 80s Merchant Ivory movie was probably a very novel idea in those days specially a movie made in Bombay in English. The story was interesting and the movie was funny in parts but it was so funny to listen to English dialogues which were clearly written in Hindi and then translated into English. Naseeruddin, Amjad Khan etc were in form. It is very interesting when you see the film as to why it is called so.

9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Swedish) (7.5/10)
A very very impressive must watch film. It is a little shocking and depressing but the mystery is so profound that it instantly hooks you on. When Harriet disappears an dno one can tell how and why that happened, 40 years later, her uncle wants to try to find the reaosn one last time before he dies. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. Must Watch !

8. Strictly Ballroom (Australia) (3/10)
A crazy old ballroom dancer wants her son to be the champion and will go to any length to make this happen and a convince dance committee that is determined that "there are no new steps!" The dancing is enjoyable, yet not overwhelming, and the movie strives hard not to take itself too seriously. I was not impressed with the movie. Neither humor nor dance. Surprising since it is from Baz Lurhrmann

7. We Are Family (Hindi) (5/10)
I have not seen Stepmom , so I cannot compare but then this movie in itself was quite boring. I mean there ws nothing in this movie that could hold my attention. This kind of family dramas are big on TV these days and no one wants to see this on big screen , not even when you have a Kajol and Kareena involved. And music? SEL have been disappointing so much of late.

6. The Film Emotional Atyachar (Hindi) (2.5/10)
Small indie Hindi films have always raised my expectations specially because few of them earlier were big good surprises. Not this one. A huge disappointment in every department specially since the actors involved are all well known for doing off beat good films. The plot is simple but made unnecessary complex. Completely avoidable.

5. Lafangey Parindey (Hindi) (4/10)
Lafangey Parindey movie is a love story set in the gritty streets of Mumbai. The film is about bike gangs in Mumbai. Neil Nitin Mukesh plays the character of One Shot Nandu, a fighter who pummels his opponents in the ring blindfolded. Deepika Padukone plays Pinky Palkar, a dancer who is blind but ambitious and dances with roller skates on her feet. Neil and Deepika both did not suit their characters. They are classic case of misfit actors. Neil does not look rough street fighter whereas Deepika looks too polished to be a chawl wali Maharashtrian girl. Film could have been much better with better actors.

4. MacGruber (2/10)
A 90 second small kit on SNL hs been blown up for th ebig screen. This itself is a big feat. The film take a 80s plot where MacGruber is the only person who can fight the bad guy (Van Kilmer). MacGruber may not set the world on fire, but the insanely committed Forte, like MacGruber, will do anything, no matter how obscene, to complete his mission. You will get the humor and scenes if you watch it on SNL. But even then it does not tickle your funny bone since it is not a skit anymore, it is a full length feature film.

3. Housefull (Hindi) (3/10)
I still don't understand why was everyone so gung-ho about this movie. This was the biggest disappointment for me. Barring one single scene, I did not laugh at ll in the entire movie. The chunky Pandey sequence that everyone liked, was such a big yawn and very very irritating. Sajid Khan, I expected much more from you specially when you publicize your own movie so much and then make a crap. Akshay was again a big bore

2. Phoonk 2 (Hindi) (1/10)
A very bad follow up to the first one whih had some moments of scare. This one just had long camera angles with no specific scary moments. The worse part is that the film ends just randomly without any explanation of what happened and whether is spirit is alive or dead or what. And please, spare us from part 3. This torture cannot go on.

1. Back-Up Plan (1.5/10)
Since Jennifer Lopez has not found her dream man, she still wants to become a single mom and gets inseminated. Bang when she finds she is pregnant, she fonds her dream man and now she doesn't know how to tell him about the back-up plan of kid that she had. Supposedly romantic comedy of course ends up with initial fight and the guy finally accepting the reality. I like candy flosses, but this was a really bad movie.