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Marigold Reviews
[Willard] Carroll tries to be warm and affectionate towards Indian culture and Bollywood, but the film is riddled with clichés.
| Jun 5, 2019
Larter is just about average. Salman hasn't looked worse, with a plastic smile, a faraway look and a fake, incomprehensible accent that forces one to demand subtitles.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 25, 2019
Although intended to celebrate Bollywood, this Marigold smells suspiciously of trying to cash in on the current global obsession for all things Bollywood.
| Oct 24, 2017
It seems the only thing worse than a faulty culture shock comedy with zero charm is a faulty culture shock comedy with zero charm starring Ali Larter.
| Original Score: F | Jul 29, 2008
Bollywood fans will dismiss the mishmash as the work of an American director 'slumming' in a genre outside his own culture, and Western audiences unfamiliar with Hindi-language masala movies will find the whole thing puzzling.
Full Review | Sep 10, 2007
It's all dizzying, but what a delight.
| Aug 21, 2007
Salman Khan is one of the big names in Bollywood whose appeal continually eludes, and here he simply proves that he is just as much a bafflement in English as he is in Hindi.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2007
This first co-production between the United States and India starts badly and never recovers.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2007
a colorful charmer that might even persuade a few skeptics to check out the real thing.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2007
[Director] Carroll knows his Bollywood stuff and, refreshingly, doesn't apologize for, or waste time explaining, an industry and a style that most Americans still regard as silly. Instead, he honors them.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2007
Rest assured, contrived love will prevail.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2007
Carroll seems to be saying that we should regard Bollywood as a harmless part of Indian culture.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2007
Ali Larter plays an amazingly bitchy actress sent to Bollywood. They hate her, then they love her. I didn't quite get the love bit.
| Aug 17, 2007
Bollywood cheerfully meets - not Hollywood, exactly, more straight-to-video.
| Aug 17, 2007
Goofy and sweet.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2007
It's colourful and pacy and the musical interludes are fun. But, on the whole, Marigold is predictable to the end.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2007
As Prem's dad says of his son's feature film career, "I know nothing about dancing and the plots seem ludicrous to me."
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2007
Despite boasting bags of colour, energy and top Bollywood actor Salman Khan, this cross cultural concoction falls halfway between the genres.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2007
A sari attempt to hybridise Hollywood and Bollywood.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2007