Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This film is an epic and absolute comedy with numerous rib-tickling moments.Akshay kumar,Paresh Rawal and Sunil shetty are perfect as the three leads who enter into trouble due to money's greed.Johny lever,Rajpal Yadav,Rimi sen,Sharat saxena,Manoj joshi and all other supporting actors add even more fun and comedy to the film.Last part evokes greatest laughter.ENJOY!

What a shameless rip-off! And that too from a famous movie - "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Even the dialog at the circus (Mujhe kaun dhakka mara)was taken from " Malamal Weekly" Sad to see the director stole from fellow directors both in India and abroad. Would have still liked it as I do for some of Mahesh Bhatt rip - offs, had it been nicely presented. Even the presentation was cheap, editing is awful and the acting would make you feel like jumping off from your seats and leave the theater. Paresh Rawal in comparison to his brilliant performance in MalaMaal Weekly, was show as the most third grade actor. When the Hera Pheri was launched, the characters evolved slowly giving us pleasant surprises. This movie has hordes of new characters which was direct in defining their role and never came up as a surprise and the complete experience leaves you with wondering how fast you should run for the exit. A total waste of money, talent and time. Don't waste your money in watching this movie nor even buying the DVDs.

After the unprecedented success of Hera Pheri, here is more of that good stuff.Pros : Once again its great to see this unexpected together. The chemistry remains top notch. The 3 characters have heavy roles with their own wizardry to match them. Akshay is suave, rich yet left wanting for more. Sunil remains the good man with the standard pessimistic approach to Akshay. In the middle is Paresh Rawal and bundles of humour.This plot is set off promisingly with a concept of having gained, lost all and now trying to get it back! :)Cons : - What made Hera Pheri amazing was the original dialogue and interaction between the characters and how the final story tied itself well with the sub-plots. This is not so here because the director decided to lift the latter half of the story from "Lock Stock and 2 Smoking barrels" which is a big shame because the story only gets confused and dragged into the region of "when is this going to get over"Tabu, who was effectively the 4th character is gone, we are left with some eye candy fillers who not only look out of place but with very poor roles. Still fun to watch if one does not have very high expectations.

A sequel has its upsides and flipsides. The upside is that it can redeem on the recall value of the prequel and attract audiences to the theatres. The flipside however is that it has to meet the gigantic expectations of the prequel to satisfy the audiences sitting in the theatres. Most sequels turn a victim of this flipside. Phir Hera Pheri is no exception. When judged on its own merit, Phir Hera Pheri is a fairly entertaining comedy flick. But comparisons with the prequel, though unfair, are inevitable and that's where the film might disappoint to an extent. The writer of the prequel, Neeraj Vora writes and directs this sequel. Vora manages to pull of the film from where it ended in the first part and also maintains connectivity between the two films. And since the characters were already established in the first part, he wastes no time here to go ahead with the storyline. Raju (Akshay Kumar), Shyam (Suniel Shetty) and Baburao (Paresh Rawal) who earn big bucks at the end of the first part; live a lavish life at the start of the second episode. But with money comes greed for more money. So in the greed to double their money, they borrow more money from underworld and invest it in a chit fund on the behest of Anuradha (Bipasha Basu). But the company turns out to be bogus and thereby they lose all their assets coming back to square one. From here on starts their attempt in paying back loans taken from the underworld. The movie runs on jet speed pace and you hardly get time to breathe, gasp, feel, absorb, react or relate. With every alternate scene a new gang is introduced and by the interval point you have around a dozen mobsters linked to each other. The film is clustered with so many characters that you lose count after a point of time. While Neeraj Vora scores as a writer; to an extent, he fails as a director. On the writing part, despite so many characters to handle, he etches an interesting screenplay connecting all of them. Obviously you are not expected to think logically in today's comedies. Off lately, slapstick has turned out to be an easy alternative to tongue-in-cheek humor. So you don't have to exercise your brains cells when a circus gorilla (a palpable human in a monkey mask) is in pursuit of Johny Lever in the climax, as far as the duo makes you laugh. Or for that matter, don't think twice when the mastermind of first part, Akshay Kumar falls for a silly trap of doubling money in the second. But then these minuscule loopholes can be overlooked.What cannot be overlooked are the over-the-top loud performances. There's where Vora's directorial skills come into question in extracting performances from the cast. While none of the actors are bad, they are unnecessarily boisterous at times. Vora also ends up sketching caricature characters of a stammering gangster duo (played by Sharat Saxena and Ravi Kissen) to evoke humor. The humor is more formulated. While Vora overuses Paresh Rawal, he overlooks Suniel Shetty. Paresh Rawal gets the maximum gags and is ably supported by Akshay Kumar who compliments Rawal for a perfect comic chemistry. While showcasing the dumbness of his character Baburao, Paresh Rawal at times stretches the jokes too far and goes overboard. Akshay Kumar has a spontaneous comic timing, but off late with this similar kind of roles, he is getting typecast. However he's far better tickling the funny bone than indulging in emotional inanities like Humko Deewana Kar Gaye. Phir Hera Pheri essentially tried to use the original Hera Pheri pairing of Akshay-Suniel-Paresh as its USP. But post Hera Pheri; there have been so many films with the trio combination like Awara Pagal Deewana, Aan: Men at Work and Deewane Hue Pagal that there's hardly any novelty or a recreated charm effect when they come together here. One aspect where the film is better than its prequel is that unlike Hera Pheri where there were half a dozen redundant forced songs and item numbers, in Phir Hera Pheri the songs don't intrude in proceedings and are kept at their minimal best runtime. Phir Hera Pheri does induce plenty of laughter. But you do feel that with a little more fine-tuning, it could have been even more hilarious. The extended climax is aptly set in a circus that brings the entire clown-cum-caricature cast together. The movie however ends quite abruptly, keeping enough scope for a sequel to continue the series. We just hope that the next episode gets better.