Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

*ing:  Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Rated : 8/10 The gorilla is back — this time as an albino with blue eyes, huge, more than ever before; funny more than ever before; buddy types more than ever before. And thus, interesting, more than ever before! Helming the gorilla in shape, size and humour is an equally big (by human standards) Dwayne Johnson and his amicable animal instincts. As the primatologist maintaining an animal sanctuary of mostly rescued primates, life is fun for him without the girls and the parties. All he wants is a bond with the gorilla families and their well-being and life takes care of itself. Till, of course, a genetic remodelling experiment falls straight from space and infects his animals into becoming big, fierce, destructive, unreasonable and regenerative monsters on a rampage. The film is fun, fast paced and, above all, smashingly humorous.  The crude and sexist humour between the gorilla (...

Casting : Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Bobby Cannavale Rated : 7/10 Jumanji has been synonymous with Robin Williams, the brilliant actor who is no more. But the 2017 version of this adventure board game reinvents itself beautifully to catch your attention with a whole lot of jungle adventure yes, but also a hilarious dose of humour, fun and frolic that is engaging and enervating all at the same time. Centred around the antics of four detention students tasked to unstaple thousands of papers for recycling stumble across a gaming console which sucks them into a trickle jungle affair where a possessed man from 1996, a giant jaguar who has lost his magic jewel, a whole lot of trappings and suicidal runs lord over a jungle game which the four school detentioners are compelled to play. Besides, of course, the adrenaline that flows through the well choreographed, graphic and well-paced sequences of the jungle game, it is the characterisatio...

Cast:  Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Alexandra Daddario, David Hasselhoff, Cody Martin Rated : 4/10 Wasn’t  Baywatch  always about certain portions of the woman anatomy than about any kind of crime and chase thrillers? That’s the way it should have remained because more the world matures, more it moves back into serenading, well, woman anatomy on the big screen, especially when it is localed around a beach, sea and some Sunday fun in the summers. The latest edition of  Baywatch , hijacked from the now aged David Hasselhoff by none other than muscle rippling Rock, is a muddle much like the beach and sea conditions during monsoons. It does not show enough of anything, not even skin as a true blood  Baywatch  franchise should have, and gets rather too complicated with fallen heroes, drugs, corruption and jurisdiction issues that are too commonplace for a  Baywatch  title to get stuck into. Come to think of it, the film i...