Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Kirpianuscus a nice film. in a surprising manner. because it has the subtle and wise science to be more than part of a specific genre. because it propose a seductive, colorful and charming - in its dramatic significance - story.because the cultural clash has adorable nuances. because it is a story about love and traditions and influences and the good son in middle of huge crisis. and because one of the seductive characters is ... the spirit of Cary Grant made by a surprising actor. so, a good choice for the viewer looking for a seductive film. and the real gift remains the end. so, see it !

jaroslaw99 I guess I am not the brightest bulb once in a while because I didn't figure out what Cary Grant was doing in this movie until about 15 or so minutes into the movie. This review will contain some mild spoilers.I did see this movie when it came out and there are so many basic reviews already I will just mention what I found to be good and bad. Yes this is another cross cultural coming out story but it is done in a very unique way. Some have complained there wasn't chemistry between the male leads (Alim- Muslim and Giles British) or Alim's mother Nuru was too abrasive. Or that the Alim character was too droopy/ sad. I take a different tack and realize the actors didn't write the script and judge how well they did with what they were handed. I say the acting was excellent. That said it would have been nice to see a little more romance/normal life between the leads before turning everything topsy turvy with all the inter familial drama. This movie moves fast and even after watching it three times I still catch very subtle nuances. I agree with others who say Alim's mother's transformation was pretty smooth but then few of us go through what she did - living all over the world and widowed at 19. The most ridiculous criticism here is that she looked to young to be a mother of a 30 year old man. Movies are make believe aren't they? Whoops Goldberg rightly protested when they told her the princess wasn't black so she couldn't play the part! Nuru the mother had very traditional clothes and very old fashioned hair dos. It was good enough. I can see why they wanted her - she is stunningly beautiful.I didn't understand a couple things. Giles professed his love for Alim and vice versa yet the reactions to various situations (about their romantic relationship) seemed very understated and others very over dramatic. It was unclear how long they had been together. This may explain some of the reconciling. The credits said there was a cultural consultant but Giles was way too smart to say to Alim during a fight "if you're mother is just an ignorant Pakistani what does that make you?" At the cousin's wedding also Muslim the sister thinks her husband is drunk and then says very distraughtly "I knew we should have had a cash bar". ??? At the very end Nuru Alim and Giles leave the wedding for reasons I won't expose here. It didn't change anything but definitely contradicts Nuru's earlier statement that (paraphrased and in more ways than one) "family is everything especially when no one else will have you"Despite everything each time I see this I like it more. I read the producer spent 11 years putting this together, writing many of the songs and so much more. It is not perfect. But neither is it a campy stereotyped movie full of nudity or the tragedy of AIDS or things like that. Just enjoy the story and have fun.

Portrait-of-a-Statue I am a fan of Kyle MacLachlan from his Twin Peaks days and good reviews of his performance as Cary Grant led me to watch this movie. I'm sorry I did because it saddened me to see him reduced to acting in a movie of this caliber. The script never met a cliché it didn't like and I knew where immediately how the story would end. (I was right.) Jimi Mistri was not the right choice to play Alim. He was clearly uncomfortable with the gay kissing scenes and the rest of his performance ranged from morose to more morose. He does a lot of his acting by widening his eyes. I got the impression Suleka Mathew is a good actress but her character was poorly written--so manipulative and unpleasant one moment and so effortlessly transformed the next. Finally, the lighting, the sets, the staging all scream "we can't spend a lot of money on this production."

spidermonkey57132 i think that that this movie was really nice. and i loved Alim's mom. i thought it was really understanding of her to accept him for who he was. and i loved Giles. he is so cute and hot!!!! i think that this movie is a movie that people have to see. i isn't hard coming out to your parents. and this movie tells you or i should say shows you how hard it is to come out to your parents when your someone like Alim. Alim character was really nice to. me and my cousin watched this movie together and we were both like all into the movie. the ending was so nice. i don't want to ruin it for you so I'm not going to tell you what happened. but i will tell you that you must watch this movie. it'll make you go," aaaawwwwwwwwwww". thats what we did.