Best movie of this year hands down!

Thanks for the memories!

Excellent but underrated film

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

What a lovely gem of a movie! The beautiful scenery and architecture of Jaipur alone makes it worth watching. Interesting story and excellent acting as well. I've watched it 3 times already. The only thing I didn't like was the Indian lad (actually British) who over-acted and was quite unbelievable and annoyingly unfunny. The rest of the cast were simply superb. I intend to watch it a few more times. Love love love this little gem!

I had no idea, just how good this film would be and one of those I'd always bypassed in the past. With a fantastic all star cast, the film deals with each individuals circumstances whilst providing some great comedic lines along the way, loved it!!!

I rarely write reviews for movies, but when I noticed the rather high overall rating shown for this movie I decided to balance it out in the proper direction - i.e. downward! This movie has all the ingredients for a good film, but these ingredients need to be properly mixed and baked. As it turns out, this is nothing more than a cliche travel-log flick with a worn-out albeit camouflaged theme and uninspired acting. I may be the odd-man-out in this, but I'm of the opinion that a movie has no raison-d'etre unless the audience can care about the characters on the screen (favorably or otherwise). I could find no reason to care about any of them, so after a half-hour in front of the screen I cut my losses and shut the darn thing off. This movie has been rated favorably alongside such film as 'The Good Karma Hospital' - I think not!! Same part of the world; totally different result. The latter film left me wanting to see more; the 'Hotel' merely wasted a half-hour of my time!

Sweet and naive J.Dench or sour - faced cynical M.Smith?That is the question. Both these formidable ladies play to their strengths here,comfortably stealing the film without breaking sweat. Although messrs Nighy and Pickup deliver their customary performances they are whistling into the wind. This is a slight tale of British pensioners retiring to live in India. Some find it Iiberating,,others vexing. There is nothing particularly entertaining or surprising on show but it is unobjectionable,almost soporific in tone. Quite why "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" has attracted such attention is not obvious to me. The apparent popularity of "Bollywood" to the main stream may account for this fascination,coupled with a jollop of post - colonial guilt . I can't help feeling that a more accurate picture of the British abroad can be gauged from "Benidorm". What The Garveys would make of Jaipur might be very different.