The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

3/5

It has it's moments, it's great moments, and a nice moral to think about. But most of the humor is lost in stiffness of performance, and most of the seriousness is lost in the lost humor. Sadly, no one's performances were really powerful enough to me to live up to the great cast. Bill Nighy and Dev Patel were the exceptions, Dev Patel in particular giving me hope that his career wasn't completely lost from The Last Airbender. Still, these performances were held back by an obvious moral, one of those morals that was introduced within the first 10 minutes of the film. So obvious, in fact, that it actually ruined the ending a bit for me. Tension was gone, and any suspense that anything might not be fixed was wiped away very quickly. Still, it had me smile and had me entertained. It's an alright movie.