Excellent adaptation.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Less funny than the first, but just as enjoyable, a duo of films I never expected to relate to and engage with, yet much wisdom appears with the depth of characters that relate to us all. Easy watching, smile filled and great writing!

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the sequel to the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Once more we meet the British pensioners, now permanently living at the hotel. Each one of them occupies themselves with different kinds of work and also helping out at the hotel. Everything seems to work out great, but problems lies just around the corner for everyone. Sonny the Indian, who runs the hotel, wants to expand and invest in another property but at the same time he is heading for the altar with his girlfriend Sunaina. The whole thing naturally goes very wrong and on top of it all, they are expecting an undercover hotel inspector for the eventual expand.The Second Best Exotic Marigod Hotel is like the first film, incredibly beautiful to watch. Many scenes are shot out on the streets of India, and we experience the crowd and the colors of the country. The film is actually a very good commercial film for India as a nation, and I myself would very much like to visit the country after watching these two films. Almost the entire cast from the first film returns. The list of actors is long with names like Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilton. Also Richard Gere takes part in the cast as an American visiting the hotel.The film is very pleasant to watch and works well against the culture of India in the background. All the different characters have different relations to each other, some being romantically and others just on friendly terms. This is at the same time the weak spot of the film. It does become quite messy after a while to keep track on all the stories and at the same time follow Sonny with his hotel. I also think it's a pity that the British actors very rarely interact with each other. They all have their own stories on the side and they rarely cross paths. With such a heavy list of actors I did hope for more encounters and intrigues between the main characters. Now instead, they are having them with other people barely involved with the main story.Another problem is that it feels as if the director wanted to let all the characters take up more room in this film. This leads us to not really getting close to anyone. I thought they handled this better in the first film because they focused the story more on a few of the characters and let the others be sort of a supporting cast.The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is still watchable if you liked the first film and you shouldn't watch this if you haven't seen that one. To see all these fantastic British actors together are a delight, but as the title of the film also insinuates, this installment is only second best compared to the first one.David Lindahl - www.filmografen.se

Maggie Smith is all wrinkled up and she represents a light ending in India as a co-manager of a rather successful hotel whose proprietor, Dev Patel, really laying on his thick Indian accent, attempts to expand but apparently to no avail.Richard Gere is the supposed writer who visits and is writing a book on getting older. Of course, Gere isn't what he is supposed to be and is soon found to be a hotel evaluator as is the case with another guest. At the same time, he woos Patel's mother and finally recuse himself from evaluation for obvious reasons.Both the Smith and Dench characters are commonly giving advice. While Smith represents life ending, Dench is still going strong working now for a company buying up all sorts of fabrics.In the end at his marriage ceremony, Patel dances away as he did in the final scene of his hit the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire."

It's especially sad when such an incredibly talented group of actors are stuck in a movie with a terrible script and stereotypes that evoke an eye-roll at least every three minutes. For starters, the story line would have been greatly improved if the opening scene had been focused on the blazing funeral pyre of the Sonny Kapoor character. If he was irritating in the original, he has crossed into the realm of unbearable in this sequel. With a script that seems to be a direct lift from the Golden Girls, Jungle Fever and a bad country music video, this unnecessary sequel had nowhere to go but down and it did. Terribly written, clumsily directed and with subplots that are awkwardly interjected and fragmented, this was totally unnecessary. It speaks volumes when Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Judy Dench cannot rescue a film from itself. On the other hand, it was a cure for my chronic insomnia.