Housefull 5A Movie Review: Makes no sense; makes you laugh?

Housefull 5AUA Comedy thrillerDir Tarun MansukhaniCast Akshay Kumar Abhishek Bachchan Riteish DeshmukhRating 25Must a movie make sense while it makes you laugh too NopeHence this film that you cannot judgebegrudge so long as it makes you laugh And until when it doesnrsquot and then you look around for the entire second half here wondering what do we nowAs it is the only review the filmmakers mdash in their proverbial wish for lsquolaughing all the way to the bankrsquo mdash must hope for is the title itselfThat is a housefull sic board for the fifth instalment of a franchise that mustrsquove served audiences well enough to make it thus farThe last one travelled back in time 600 years to the song lsquoBala shaitaan ka saalarsquo over half a decade agoFirstly with several showtimingsscreenings at a multiplex I doubt therersquos such a thing as a houseful board anymore mdash even for singlescreen cinemas most of which donrsquot exist in cities like Mumbai anywayWhat have all these Housefull flicks been about In the desi tradition of labelling sequels for no reason theyrsquore entirely unrelated with a couple of constants perhapsThe genre an ensemble cast madcap comedy Maybe with three actors in common all through really Akshay Kumar Riteish Deshmukh and Chunky Panday for lsquoAakhri PastarsquoThis onersquos a murdermystery opening like a slasher flick with a doctor getting knifed on a cruise The five for Housefull 5 shows up as a khoonipanja bloodied palm on the big screen Itrsquos a smart start alrightThe altogether indoor setting thereafter remains the cruise liner Which means not much to spend on otherwise Therefore the only reason the producers can afford the most stellar lineup for a middleaged Bollywood multistarrer that followsStarring besides Akshay Riteish Chunky Abhishek Bachchan Sanjay Dutt Jackie Shroff Nana Patekar Johnny Lever along with a bevvy of bikinis Jacqueline Fernandez Nargis Fakhri Chitrangda Singh and othersYou could earn a doctorate by convincingly deciphering how each character is related to the other Whatrsquos enough to understand is that all these actorscharacters step in and out of the screen at will carrying on with their personal plots in groups without ever bumping into the other lotThis is hard to imagine Even if the cruise ship is the size of a villageBut who asked you to imagine much in a movie about a dead body being flung around that disappears and appears without causing much fuss either That bit is probably an ode to Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro 1983Let alone Nana Patekarrsquos dhoti flying like Marilyn Monroersquos skirt from Some Like It Hot 1959 Or the interrogation scene with cops Jackie Sanjay and Akshayrsquos Jolly thatrsquos homage to The Usual Suspects 1995There are three Jollys in this juvenility Any one of them could be the heir to a rich old man whose dead body is mentioned above Veteran villain Ranjeet plays this rich old dude reprising his stock expression ldquoAiyeinrdquo since Housefull 2I know 50s is the 40s 60s are the new 50s etc Ranjeet is supposed to be 100 years old Hersquos willed his jaidaadproperty to a longlost son named Jolly Which explains three sufficiently shady Jollys ie Akshay Abhishek Riteish whorsquove shown up eyeing that inheritanceThe actors look selfaware enough suitably pulling off this deliberate pointlessness Johnny Lever brings credibility to this comedyJust watching him come out frozen from a fridge landing right on top of a frying pan takes us back to rsquo90s comfort comedy some of us grew up onIn parts the film also fits right into that decade when we simply laughed at the screen if we felt like itIncluding casually cheesy sexism mdash busty secy collecting papers from the floor while boys zoom in on her mdash and random anatomical references They were just jokes hardly to be judgedI think even in Hollywood the last such franchise was perhaps Hangover Housefull 5 references it alright with a night of debaucherydrunkenness getting retraced the following morningAs did the first Housefull that you also watch a few glimpses of as flashback mdash Akshay in a slapping match with a monkey from A Night At A Museum or using vacuum cleaner that sucks up a pet rosellaItrsquos guiltfree stuff As in if you donrsquot burden pleasure with guilt anyway To be honest Irsquod been with this lsquoso bad that itrsquos goodrsquo kinda flick all along What did I expectUntil the film fizzles out jokes dry up like the handsome Fardeen Khanrsquos sunken face and the gag order is no more in motion The gags pretty much stop segueing instead into a series of unfunny item songsYou figure the filmmakers had the scriptstamina to only last up till the interval So what do you wait for as an audience then To solve a murder mystery with nonsensical clues and nonexistent alibiIn case you donrsquot follow entertainment newsnuggets mdash be my friend mdash Housefull 5 has two versions 5A and 5B No literally like picking airline seatsThe film has two endings I chose to watch Housefull 5A which means 5B will reveal a different murdererIf I had massive donations to be at your service I could go and report from Housefull 5B Which will involve sitting until the end all over again If I donrsquot survive it at least yoursquoll know who murdered me

Housefull 5A Movie Review: Makes no sense; makes you laugh?

Housefull 5A
U/A: Comedy, thriller
Dir: Tarun Mansukhani
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh
Rating 2/5

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Housefull 5A Movie Review: Makes no sense; makes you laugh?

Housefull 5AU/A: Comedy, thrillerDir: Tarun MansukhaniCast: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh Rating 2/5

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Housefull 5A
U/A: Comedy, thriller
Dir: Tarun Mansukhani
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh
Rating 2/5