The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Review — culturefly.co.uk

Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie Never has a title seemed so detrimental to a film’s advertising campaign as this. Whether or not the negative connotations of labelling John Madden’s surprise sequel as an inferior follow-up to his smash-hit senior comedy went ignored or unnoticed remains to be seen. But it nonetheless made it that much harder to raise one’s hopes that this second journey to Jaipur, with what is essentially a thespian alternative to The Expendables, would be anything more than mediocre. It is therefore an absolute pleasure, and somewhat of a surprise to tell you that the title of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (from here on out referred to as TSBEMH) in no way reflects the film’s quality.

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