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We Are Family
Critic reviews and ratings
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...is equally appealing from the outside and at heart.
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It is well acted, deftly written, entertaining and broadly appealing drama.
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You end up squeezing a lot of wet tissues -- specially in the second half -- by the time the movie ends and walk out with a leaden heart.
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...a tearjerker with its superlative story telling. It makes you smile in some parts and leaves you moist-eyed in the others.
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Despite of having a serious theme of terminal illness, the movie has its entertaining moments.
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...is designed to be a family entertainer and that it definitely is.
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This is the kind of film where all the moms and stepmoms of the world are assured to cry buckets.
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If you're in a mood for some sparkling performances and a good cry, you will enjoy this one.
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It has the essence of a fabulous weepie. What it delivers teeters on the edge of mediocrity, swinging wildly from the vacuous to the mawkish.
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...boasts of lavish backdrops and picturesque settings but is devoid of intensity, so much so that it almost looks superficial.
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...old wine in a new, expensive bottle. It's evident in the characterisation, the dated dialogue, and the choice of the heavy-duty background score where you hear a woman's alaap for the most part; a mainstay in our saas-bahu soaps.
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...if you love saas-bahu sagas and think you can stomach an old-fashioned melodramatic family movie after aeons and are excited about watching Kajol and Kareena on screen, only then go for this one.
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...the pathos here is produced not from moments, but from performances alone: a stunning Kajol’s in particular.
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...of a little sister called Cliche, big brother Predictability and brat teenage sister, Implausibility. Our big daddy is Mr. Patronizing Dialogue and soccer mom is the Great Indian Kangan. Oh yeah and our stepmom is Stepmom.
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Kajol cries, Kareena cries, the kids cry and even Rampal sheds an artful tear. We weep for the loss of two hours.
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It's all so contrived that you despair of this film having a single genuine emotion.
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...isn't an unwatchable film. It's just not particularly engaging.
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An entirely needless remake supposedly targeted at women respects them the least.
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...does not find resonance in the context of Indian nuclear families.
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...has a weepy, forced, set-like air about it, with poorly translated dialogue and pre-packaged situations.
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...falls into the same genre of films such as Ta Ra Rum Pum or Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic which are purportedly about kids but it's the same melodramatic mush being dished out in a new wrapper.
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...is an endurance test to sit through. It’s no longer all in the family – meaning warmth, love, sharing, caring - it's all about gross manipulation to coerce the audience to shed a tear or twenty.
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It's as if Siddharth Malhotra and his producer are stuck somewhere in the fifties or in regressive Balaji TV limbo...
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...a pedestrian local rehash of a movie that was already silly to begin with.
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The regressive, "you can't be a good woman unless you are a good mom" ideology is difficult to buy.
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