Friday, March 25, 2016

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2015


     In the first Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Sonny realizes his dream of a hotel in India.  Now he is trying to expand to a second hotel with the help of an American investor.  These hotels are for the elderly and beautiful people but he has only one room left at the current hotel.  All the regular residents are full time guests and some have local jobs.  Muriel, one of the residents, accompanied Sonny to America to meet with the investors and she is also the new co-manager of the hotel.
     I thought the first film was better than this sequel.  It has many of the original characters and begins eight to nine months after where the first film ended.  There are a lot of misunderstandings, lack of communication and hurt feelings.  I didn’t feel this way about the first film but this one seems to have too much Bollywood and gives an unreal image of India?  3* (This movie is OK) 

122 min, Comedy directed by John Madden with Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, Dev Patel, Tina Desai, Richard Gere, Fiona Mollison, Shazad Latif, Subhrajyoti Barat.

Note:  Imdb 6.6 out of 10, 63% critic 60% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 1 ½*, Amazon 4.0* out of 5* with 2481 reviews.
Special Note:  Filmed at the Pearl Palace Heritage Guesthouse, Jaipur India, Almeria Spain and London England UK.

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