We Are Family Movie Reviews
3.5
Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com
Okay, WE ARE FAMILY is the official adaptation of Chris Columbus' STEPMOM [1998] and lots of us have already watched this Julia Roberts - Susan Sarandon starrer. Even otherwise, the story of a woman, diagnosed with a terminal illness, entrusting her kids to the 'other woman' before she does the final salute, gives the feeling of deja vu. But WE ARE FAMILY is not a tear-jerker. Sure, it has dollops of emotions, but also integrates the light moments wonderfully in those 12 reels.Read full review3.0
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
First things first. Thank God, it's all above board and legal. Producer Karan Johar displays a professionalism (and takes care of the legalese) by crediting the film to its original, Chris Columbus' Stepmom (1998) which won hearts with it's countless-wet-hankies emotional saga of Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts fighting for the supermom title. So much so, that once you know that, you don't actually mind the fact that the film is a scene by scene lift of the originalRead full review2.5
Anupama Chopra | NDTV Movies
There is really just one scene in We Are Family that has any emotional traction. And that can only be bad news for a professed tearjerker. The scene in question works primarily because of Kajol. As a terminally ill mother lying in a hospital bed, she tells the would-be stepmom of her children (Kareena Kapoor) that she is their past and the latter their future, playing on the word 'kal' (yesterday and tomorrow, jaanewala and aanewala). Sob, sob!Read full review2.0
Mayank Shekhar | Hindustan Times
It’s this thing about soppy chick flicks, or afternoon soppy soap operas, if you will. The male character is destined to severe step-mom treatment. If he’s present at all, he usually has no say in his own destiny. He quietly follows nature’s will. Humour is generally scarce. This fits in well with the female worldview, perhaps (okay, that’s a joke!). It doesn’t help include varied audiences. Arjun Rampal plays that muted, pointless gent in this movie adapted from Chris Columbus’s Stepmom (1998).Read full review2.0
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
If 'We Are Family', starring Kajol and Kareena Kapoor, fails to pack the emotional wallop of 'Stepmom', blame it on the insipid writing. It took five writers and a shamelessly manipulative script to put Stepmom on the screen 12 years ago, and despite its lack of subtlety, that film still delivered at least a few genuine lump-in-your throat moments. The same unfortunately can't be said for director Siddharth Malhotra's 'We Are Family'Read full review2.0
Aniruddha Guha | DNA India
Okay, We Are Family is Stepmom, we all know that. Buying official rights means the makers can unabashedly retain elements, even dialogues, from the original. And they have. Remember ‘stepmom’ Julia Roberts telling ‘mom’ Susan Sarandon about how she will deck up her elder daughter for her wedding years later? This one has our desi Roberts (Kapoor) saying the exact same words to Sarandon aka Kajol, only in Hindi. This is no adaptationRead full review1.5
Minty Tejpal | Mumbai Mirror
Finally, Karan Johar has made a film with a title that bluntly states what the rest of us have suspected all along, that they are family, while we are just the outsiders paying for the tickets. We Are Family is an official remake; thankfully Bollywood is finally giving due credit to the Hollywood film Stepmom, a slightly surprising choice for Indian audiences.Read full review1.0
Preeti Arora | rediff.com
We Are Family begins on a note of confusion. As the film progresses, the sense of confusion increases leaving the viewer disoriented. At the end of two hours, debut director Sidharth Malhotra's film -- which is intended to be a sob story -- did leave the audience in tears. Of boredom. Arjun Rampal is divorced and his kids live with his ex-wife Kajol (Maya). He's been in a relationship with Kareena Kapoor (Shreya) for the last three yearsRead full reviewNR
Komal Nahta | Koimoi
‘We Are Family’ will not work at the box-office except in select multiplexes of the big cities. But that’s j...Read full review
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3.5
Not typical K.Jo/Sooraj Bartajya type sob story..
movielover4, 9 years agoSuper hit movie. I loved everything about this movie. -
2.0
Sob! Sob! (For my tickets money)
thomas.richard, 9 years agoThis is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time. -
2.0
Boring and Boring
movielover4, 9 years agoThis is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time. -
4.0
Wholesome family entertainment
prakashreddy9, 9 years agoSuper hit movie. I loved everything about this movie. -
5.0
family fantastic....minor help needed
prakashreddy9, 9 years agoThis is one of best movie of all time.