Entertainment: Doggy doggy, no baba

Entertainment
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Tamannaah Bhatia, Mithun Chakraborty, Johnny Lever, Sonu Sood
Rated: 5/10
Let’s get one or two things straight at the very beginning here. This is a dog starrer, not really an Akshay Kumar starrer. It is an attempted comedy, not a real one. The main hero of the film, the dog, does not get a single dialogue here and very few wuffs at that. Akshay plays the rich pet’s man Friday and just to let you know, his make-up is as retarded as some of the film’s funny dialogues.
The attempted humour gets so repetitive and tedious at times that even the poor dog has a dazed expression all throughout, almost as if he would prefer a lonely lamp post to put his leg up rather than spend time in the posh environs of a deserted villa in Bangkok.
Entertainment is the dog’s name and you feel really bad with Krushna who extends the laughter challenge to 70 mm when he says cheesily — and oh-so-expectedly — that ‘Entertainment kitni kutti cheez hai’! Such ones and many more, some with an unexplained Ekta Kapoor hangup, fly around in a film that blatantly felt no need for hitherto essential conformities like a storyline, some meaningful dialogues and, of course, impactful humour!
Mithun Chakraborty as the heroine’s money crazy father tries his best but fails to savour moments in the film; Sonu Sood and Prakash Raj as the villainous sidekicks also try hard but fail flat with their limp bad deeds and lumpier jokes. Both, otherwise potent actors in their own right, come across as defective elements from the loony bin; And all that the veteran comedy maker Johnny Lever is allowed to do is be stiff as starch and, as Habibullah, be constantly enraged by the mispronunciation of his name — other than paying poker-faced obeisance to a confused dog.
Returning to the dog, one must turn to canine movies from Hollywood for inspiration where, if the dog is the centrepoint, then he is the main character and is given a lot of flesh to play the role that is either moving or endearing. Here, the poor dog gets all the money but no fun.
Even dog lovers would have liked that this pet was given his due by the director. As for Akshay fans, well... Entertainment badi kutti cheez hai”! 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 10 August, 2014

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