It’s unpretentious comedy time with Housefull 3 this week.
Housefull 3 It started out in 2010 with Housefull and continued through Housefull 2 two years later. The premise has remained the same – a series of gags strung together into something resembling a story thread – but the director has changed. Sajid Khan has given way to the dialogue writers Sajid-Farhad, who made their debut with Entertainment in 2014. Akshay Kumar and Ritesh Deshmukh have been the constants in the series, as has Chunky Pandey as Aakhri Pasta, owner of an Italian hotel in the first film and a marriage counsellor in the second. In the third chapter, Kumar and Deshmukh are joined by Abhishek Bachchan in playing the suitors of the three leggy daughters (Jacqueline Fernandez, Lisa Haydon and Nargis Fakhri) of Batuk Patel (Boman Irani). Prevented from marrying their girlfriends, the men resort to extreme measures – they all pretend to be disabled.The Nice Guys Shane Black’s comedy stars Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as private detectives who investigate the suspicious suicide of a porn star called Misty Mountains. Set in 1970s Los Angeles, the movie explores the events that unfold when Misty Mountains’ aunt claims that she is alive. The aunt hires Holland (Gosling), who realises that there is another missing woman involved (Margaret Qualley), who has in turn hired Jackson (Russell Crowe) to keep Holland away from her. Also starring Kim Basinger and Matt Bomer.
Me Before You Jojo Moyes’s bestselling novel Me Before You is the basis of a new three-hankie weepie starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke (better known as Daenerys Targaryen from the Game of Thrones television series). In Thea Sharrock’s adaptation, Claflin plays a wealthy quadriplegic who gets entangled with the woman (Clarke) hired to care for him.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows The sequel to the 2014 movie features the further adventures of the turtles who can talk and are named after Renaissance artists. We quote this synopsis from Wikipedia to disprove allegations that tentpole films are often mindless: “The Turtles come into conflict with T.C.R.I. scientist Dr Baxter Stockman and the return of their enemy, The Shredder, who has hired Stockman to create mutants of his own in the form of Bebop and Rocksteady to even the score, during which the Turtles discover a Retro-Mutagen in hopes they can become humans following an extraterrestrial invasion above New York City led by the Dimension X inhabitant known as Krang.”
