Comedy@Housefull 5: The more the painful
Fardeen Khan, Johnny Lever, Chunky Panday, Shreyas Talpade, Dino Morea, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff and, later in second half, Nana Patekar all join in on the shenanigans. However, the more crowded the field gets, the more tedious it is for Tarun Mansukhani to keep the narrative afloat.Gags, familiar and dated, come every now and then, as do far too many songs, which all sound and look the same. It's doesn't take long to figure that not just the ship but even the story is at sea. The body count piles up but the humour quotient is consistently low.By the time Housefull turns to let's-find-the-killer plot with Patekar's dhoti-clad, tilak-wearing Interpol cop from London at the helm, the film is beyond redemption. Kumar is the most bearable of the lot, keeping the histrionics under check for most part while Deshmukh and Bachchan aren't give much material here to cast an impression.Sense and sensibility is not why you watch the Housefull series, but this instalment is neither a 'killer' comedy nor a scary comedy.Subscribe to India Today Magazine
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