Joker Movie Reviews

Joker' is a film that has been designed for the kids which means one can't be expected to sit down and hunt for much logic in the proceedings. A fair entertainer that does lead to some good laughs if you have a taste for some quirky humour, 'Joker' does have some lose moments in the middle of the second half but that can still be ignored in the overall scheme of things where you do stay on to be engaged. Though it doesn't quite fetch a 'must watch' tag for itself

Like a joker, the film makes a complete fool of itself. However it fails to make you laugh. The circus clown is funnier!

Straight up - Joker arouses extreme passions. You'll love it or hate it. It's a totally off-the-wall entertainer powered by corny jokes, OTT filmi characters and tongue-in-cheek sequences. If you like that sort of thing, you'll laugh out loud. If you don't, it's not for you. Joker starts with scientist Agastya (Kumar) who's developing 'the world's most sophisticated radio' to contact aliens, urgently summoned from America to his desi village

Joker is a joke, a gag pulled on all manner of films about aliens — it pisses on films about humans searching for aliens, on green and brown aliens giving us darshan, on films about humans (read filmy Americans) being abducted by aliens, and on aliens themselves. Whoever thought that aliens were higher beings made of finer cerebral matter needs to see the last scene of Joker. Whatever Hollywood may have us believe, according to Bollywood, aliens are not just dullards

JOKER is an alien concept. It is an attempt to get the eyeballs of the powers to this long-forgotten state called Paglapur, which now boasts of a scientist (Akshay Kumar) who is working on a project with NASA in the US of A to establish contact with Aliens. This state is full of lunatics. How Akshay managed to flee this mad house after Std III and set base in America is another story. Akshay is conned into visiting his village after many years by his brother and father

As a one-line idea Joker might have appeared as an interesting concept. But when the one line is sketched (rather stretched) into a full-length film, you realize that it was better restricted till the one-line only. Now Jaan-e-mann isn't a film that anyone would want to take forward but Shirish Kunder gifts Akshay Kumar with the same name, profession (and a lackluster film). So Agastya is a NASA scientist who keeps sending signals in space to see if koi mil gaya. With his ladylove

It's not every day that a sci-fi aficionado gets to site the example of Plan 9 From Outerspace. It's that "blue moon" moment (which serendipitously falls tonight) when you get to hark back to the genius of Ed Wood Jr. FYI, Ed Wood made some of Hollywood’s silliest but cult sci-fi films back when theatres were monochrome and alien suits weren’t rendered in HD but made out of ABS plastic. Well, Shirish Kunder's Joker is every bit as silly and fun

As bland as the title of the film may sound, Joker does not disappoint. In a bit of an out-of-world way, the small village of Pagalpur is overlooked when India’s map is being charted during independence. After the inmates of the mental asylum in the village break loose, all the other inhabitants flee the place. Surrounded by his crackling machines, Agastya (Akshay Kumar) is a scientist in the US searching for signs of life beyond the earth. When he has nothing more than static

With a baseline that sounded interesting enough, I was hoping for a more entertaining and enjoyable fare. Although really not that bad as some are making it out to be, there is no doubt that this Joker could have been funnier.

In Joker, directed by Shirish Kunder, Akshay Kumar is cast as a committed NASA scientist. You can laugh now. Very likely it’s the only time you’ll laugh during this disappointing film. Stripped down to its basics, there’s an interesting premise at the heart of Joker, but Kunder fails spectacularly in exploiting its potential. In a sequence parodying Swades, US-based Agastya (Kumar) returns home to Paglapur, an obscure village in North India that doesn’t even have access

"Don't fly our jokes." Early on in Joker, one of the many oddballs populating the film, one who literally translates Hindi into English -- as if we've never seen that before -- indignantly says this while subtitling the words "Humaara mazaak mat udaao." Director Shirish Kunder, perhaps in obeisance to legendary comic Asrani being the one mouthing the line, appears to take it as gospel. He fills the film with gags flatter than a glass of day-old cola

Halfway into the film, a guy on screen took his sunglasses off to vent: “Sweet Mother of God, what the hell is going on.” It gave the audience the chills. Did one person from the audience actually cross over and get INTO the film? Like the opposite of The Purple Rose of Cairo coming to life in movie halls around the country? That’s the 3D technology Shirish Kunder was boasting about then? Very few realise that Joker has thus become the first Bollywood film

Does Joker hold up, then, as a children’s film? Not a chance. It’s clean, sure, bereft of swearing or innuendo (yet with a sultry item song) but it’s also daft.

Joker testifies to the power of the star in Bollywood. It is staggeringly inept. I can't imagine that it was persuasive even as a concept. Yet it got made, in all likelihood because Akshay Kumar said yes. (Curiously, after making it, he disengaged from the project and didn't do any promotion). Joker has Akshay playing a NASA researcher named Agastya working on a machine that will communicate with aliens. He's struggling to make the one-million-dollar contraption work

We have always been fascinated by the power of the unknown. Movie makers too appear smitten by its influence. Though Hollywood has portrayed [and continues to do so with brilliance] UFOs, aliens and ETs in several path-breaking movies, Rakesh Roshan took the initiative of projecting an alien in a Hindi movie first. And did so very convincingly and triumphantly. Now Shirish Kunder makes an attempt...From the looks of it, JOKER reminds one of SIGNS

The best thing I can say about Joker is that it’s better than Tees Maar Khan. That gem — the benchmark of all that is mind-numbingly terrible about Hindi films — was written, edited, given music to and produced by Shirish Kunder but directed by wife Farah Khan, who had two blockbusters to her name before she took on the onus of executing her husband’s vision, and which resulted in a humongous flop. Kunder, then, takes matters in his own hands

Well, the answer is no. It is actually an okay film. It has a reasonable, albeit fanciful concept, a simplistic plot and some nice quirky moments. Tees Maar Khan was made for three year-olds, Joker is made for eight year-olds. Though there are some who emerged from the theatre with their heads reeling, and it would be a great exaggeration to call this film fantastic, it is really not as bad as we were expecting

It is easy to see why lead actor Akshay Kumar has reportedly disowned this film despite the fact that his own production banner, Hari Om Entertainment, has lent its name to it. Joker is a crude joke of a film that will leave you in tears unless you have a stomach strong enough to digest such unmitigated junk. Occasionally, trash does have its uses in the domain of entertainment. But when it decomposes and turns into putrid garbage, it stinks

Taking the audience for granted is unforgiveable for any filmmaker. Shirish Kunder does that and more by treating viewers as downright unintelligent. What he calls a film is beyond unpardonable this time around. ‘Yeh toh bus shuruat hai..,’ says an amused Agastya (Akshay Kumar) to his friend Diwa (Sonakshi Sinha) as they fly down from America to Paglapur, a town with the biggest mental asylum in an undiscovered part of India. In Kunder’s brain

At one point, a character in ‘Joker’ says : sweet mother of god, what the hell is going on? In my humble opinion, he leaves it too late. I tried saying much the same as soon as the film opens, but I couldn’t get it passed my dropped jaw. Within a couple of minutes, the films establishes that it will connect the dots between a NASA scientist in search of aliens, and a village that fell off the map somewhere in the middle of India, and a bunch of ‘mad’ people

The idea of an alien movie set in India isn’t half-bad. An alien spoof movie set in India: sure, that’s even better. A movie about a village of madmen that doesn’t exist on the map: that’s a perfectly good idea, too (especially if we don’t think too hard about the fact that the germ of it almost certainly came from Manto’s genius story ‘Toba Tek Singh’). So Shirish Kunder’s Joker isn’t short on starting premises. But a film that hopes to fly all these kites

Akshay Kumar, wearing an outrageous hat, is dancing with a long-haired, ash-smeared, nearly naked holy man perched on his shoulders. At times, Kumar pats the man’s stomach even as the “baba” waves a “We Love Aliens” placard. No one will blame you if you ask — What exactly is going on here? But hold your breath, for such moments will be too many to count and by the time you see an alien dancing to an item number, your brain will be numb and nothing in life will make sense

Can kids watch this, I asked myself as I watched this all-over-the-place faradiddle. And then I dismissed it. Because even children, especially children, need a story that holds, and characters that engage.

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If we don’t have any extraterrestrials ever bothering to visit us, we know who to blame now. Shirish Kunder’s ‘Joker’ can be watched on TV sets with small picture tubes but not by those with a narrow imagination. After all, films featuring aliens enjoy unlimited creative liberty to design beings who defy form and feature for one simple reason: no one knows how they look. But regrettably, ‘Joker’ uses this great power with great irresponsibility and provides us with actors