Toonpur Ka Superrhero Movie Reviews

First things first. Indian animation comes of age and how! The film which is being billed as India's first animation feature does actually live up to its reputation. For not only is the animation artistic and classy, a living breathing Ajay Devgn too manages to be in perfect sync with the paper and pen characters. His adventures in Toon land with his cartoon friends -- Bolly, Big Ben and the rest -- turn out to have more power and punch

Animation is still an unexplored genre in India. Perhaps that's because it hasn't yet turned commercially appealing. But of recent, we've witnessed a certain amount of quality coming into the field. The graphics are much better, sometimes even matching up to international standards. When director Kireet Khurana attempted something like Toonpur Ka Superrhero, he knew he was treading into a new terrain. An amalgamation of animation and live characters

Frankly speaking, there's zilch hype for TOONPUR KA SUPERRHERO. Even though its principal stars, Ajay Devgn and Kajol, have gone out of their way to promote their new film, even though Eros has left no stone unturned to promote the film, for some strange, inexplicable reason, the film isn't on the 'must watch' list of die-hard movie addicts. Sure, there's awareness for the film, but not the type that would compel you to watch it first day, first show.

Here is a hero who doesn’t perform his own stunts, and feels a barb go through his chest when his son Kabeer (Pandya) calls him a fake hero. Somewhere filmstar Aditya (Devgn) also knows the stuntmen are more real than his on-screen histrionics. He feels that no fan following will ever match up to the respect he longs for from his own children. Cut to Toonpur. The evil Jagaaro has wreaked havoc in the town by deceitfully taking over the throne

How far will a father go to prove to he can be a hero in his children's eyes? It's a pertinent question that's answered with popcorn-light frolic in Toonpur Ka Superrhero. After all, the film, which takes obvious inspiration from Hollywood's Space Jam is aimed at a really, really young audience. Only instead of Michael Jordan endorsing Looney Tunes to ward off Monstars in a game of basketball, you have Ajay Devgn, playing a Bollywood hero

Children evidently make for cinema’s best audiences. For one, they never buy less than three tickets at one go. While they’re harder to please, once they do love a film, they express the sentiment better with their parent’s money: merchandise sales instantly pick up, video games flood mall-stores, franchises are easy to roll out. Hollywood’s built a multi-million dollar empire based on this logical premise. The Mumbai producers here realise this

Over the last decade, animation films have become big business worldwide, and it’s a trend that is expected to only grow. Kids need to be entertained, so that’s an immediate audience. Plus animation films make a lot of sense for producers, for they need no stars. Unfortunately, most animation films in India have stuck to the safe mythological genre, while the level of animation is still very poor. Finally, Toonpur ka Superhero gets its animation

A reel-life superhero turns into a real-life superhero. That’s the thrust of animated feature ‘Toonpur Ka Superrhero’, which plonks Aditya ( Devgn) into a cartoon city, and has him duel with bad toons to save good toons. The charm of a film which has real life characters interacting with cartoon characters lies in just how real it all feels ( remember the sublime ‘Who Killed Roger Rabbit?’) . And this is where the film manages to confuse

An incomprehensible voice-over by Sanjay Dutt in the opening sequence of 'Toonpur Ka Superrhero' is meant to introduce us to the key characters of this dull live action-meets-animation film. Ajay Devgan is a movie-star named Aditya who is kidnapped and transported into the cartoon world, where he must help the good toons, or the Devtoons, overthrow the evil ones, called the Toonasurs. Aditya, for his part, sees this as an opportunity

Toonpur Ka Superrhero, touted as India's first live action-animation film, is the singularly charmless adventure of a Bollywood star, Aditya played by Ajay Devgn, who gets sucked into the land of cartoons called Toonpur and then must help the good toons called Devtoons fight the bad ones called Toonasurs. The story is vaguely similar to the 1996 film Space Jam, in which superstar basketball player Michael Jordan is sucked into a cartoon world

It's an average entertainer but its chances at the box-office aren't too bright.