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35 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 15
  3. Negative: 7 out of 15
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  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    91
    Mehta's feisty, featherweight romantic comedy makes the case that even the most flamboyant cinematic conventions are as universal as they are exotic, especially when they conspire to produce that glow of happily ever after.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    70
    Will prove infectious to those audiences who find themselves sharing the director's frivolous frame of mind.
  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    63
    Fabulous idea/faulty execution is the review.
  4. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: David Chute
    50
    Perhaps it is simply impossible, even with affection in your heart, to craft an evocative homage to the expansive musical melodramas of Bollywood on a small-scale indie budget.
  5. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    50
    It's not a movie one feels like hating, but the Hindi musical numbers aren't enough to elevate this over, say, "Pretty Woman."
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    Lacks the sharpness and sophistication necessary for it to appeal beyond Indian audiences.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    Though occasional flashes of the radiantly bi-cultural romp that might have been peek through, writer-director Deepa Mehta's hybrid is strangely clumsy, given that she's an experienced filmmaker familiar with both Hollywood and Bollywood conventions.
  8. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    40
    It's just mediocrity, further soured by bad intentions.
  9. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    38
    The average Bollywood routine is passionately cheesy. This movie seems cursed with a lactose intolerance.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    30
    Disappointingly shallow and not terribly funny romantic comedy.
  11. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Nicole Arthur
    30
    Surprisingly amateurish attempt at cross-cultural comedy.
  12. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    25
    Mirthless and barely musical.
  13. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    20
    The direction is as flat as the script is thin, forcing actors to stumble through roles that make little sense. Costumes and sets border on the grotesque. Mehta is a fine enough filmmaker that this one can be written off as an aberration. Sometimes East and West really aren't meant to meet.
  14. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    20
    Depressingly parochial.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    10
    Too amateurish to lampoon or evoke either film industry, Bollywood/Hollywood is a movie that owes its presence in theaters to a certain ethnic soccer comedy still circulating like a virus.
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