Right in the beginning, a minor character asks Sidhu: “Are you stupid?” He nods. That’s prescience.

| Jan 27, 2018

Warner Bros second foray into Bollywood is a brainless masala potboiler.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Insufferable. Burdened with insipid plotting and lame comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 4, 2009

Tries to juggle Bollywood musical with martial arts action and slapstick comedy and fails at all three.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 18, 2009

This is a fun movie, as well as an interesting peek into what entertains audiences in a different culture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2009

Chandni Chowk to China is a fresh, invigorating mashup of Bollywood and Asian martial arts epics. Then, it stays around a good half hour too long. Way too long.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 10, 2009

An energetic, if uneven, movie masala whose ingredients include broad comedy, fists of fury, dark family secrets and musical numbers.

| Mar 1, 2009

Packs enough entertaining moments in its 154-minute running time to whet our appetite for more films from the subcontinent, but its sloppy audio and low-rent visual effects will likely prove distracting to American audiences accustomed to more polished fa

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 28, 2009

A wholly missed opportunity to broaden the Hindi film fan base in America.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 24, 2009

Half Bollywood, Half Chinese, all nonsense spectacle. Nikhil Advani's sprawling action-comedy has the feel of great ambition designed by committee.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 23, 2009

Any hopes of stylistic experimentation or genre fusion are quickly dashed and it becomes evident that this is simply two films: the first half singing, dancing Bollywood and the second a middle-of-the-road martial arts flick.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 22, 2009

If Chandni Chowk to China is any indication, a combination of Bollywood and kung-fu movies is something the world needed without even realizing it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2009

...so energetically off-the-wall that the sheer novelty alone makes it entertain much of the way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2009

Chandni Chowk to China never captures our imagination the way those twin Tarantino films did, mostly thanks to a lead character who's too dumb to root for, much less believe in.

| Jan 21, 2009

Results are wonky, with its detriments mainly attributable to its Indian influence.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 20, 2009

Chandni Chowk to China is Bollywood's all-singing, all-dancing, all-Hindi bid to conquer America.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2009

Chandni Chowk is the kind of madness to which you surrender unconditionally or not at all. You'll find the trans-Asian journey from the market street in Delhi to the tyrannized village in China bewitching or bewildering, with little room in between.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2009

Chandni Chowk isn't going to appeal to those not already entertained by Bollywood and kung-fu movie clichés. But it could turn the charismatic Kumar into a global star, making the prescribed happy ending even sweeter for Warner Bros.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 16, 2009