Genre: Comedy/Drama/Action/Romance/Crime
Starring: Soha Ali Khan, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrei, Vijay Raaz, Shakti Kapoor, Geeta Basra, Vrajesh Hirjee
Mr. Joe B Carvalho is the outcome of trying to make a Johnny English for the Indian audience. Thankfully though, the movie is not a frame by frame ripoff and is simply inspired by the Rowan Atkinson starer. Joe B Carvalho (Warsi) is a detective in the city of Bengaluru and assumes himself to be the best in the trade. Sadly though, he has a failing reputation of a bungling idiot who cant do even a simple job correctly. Khurana (Kapoor) is a rich businessman who wants Joe to track down his missing daughter and prevent her from marrying her boyfriend. Meanwhile, an international terrorist Carlos (Jaffrei) has been assigned the task to kill the daughter of a rich businessman before their wedding takes place. Enter Shantipriya (Khan) a dreaded police officer who has learnt of the assassination plan and must go to all lengths to prevent it. What ensues is an attempt to make you laugh but only ends up being a massive pain in the head. Every scene seems to have forced comedy and jokes hammered in the script with an overdose of over-acting to execute that humour. The entire casts' objective might have been on delivering comedy and only Jaffrei and Warsi seem to have done some justice with everyone else being a complete fail. Soha Ali Khan has a reputation of doing good character roles and in this movie she seemed to be a complete misfit and unsuited for the role. She completely fails to carry out the action scenes and is an even worse comic, yes she looks good in that bikini but that's about it. The movie does not follow any consistent or sensible plot line and it seems more as if a bunch of jokes were written and then a story was made around these jokes. The songs too are nothing that you want to put on your iPod and enjoy during your day. With songs such as Ring ring ring ring ringa roses and I hate chumma chaatti you would probably want to wonder who would write such horrible lyrics. These too, just like the humour, are unwanted in the movie and forced in through dream sequences and unwanted moments. Yes, the movie has more bad then good but there will still be a segment of the audience who would enjoy the nonsensical and leave-your-brains-at-home sort of slapstick humour. If such is your agenda then the movie kills your 2 hours of time else if you are looking at watching something more sensible, walk away, instantly!
Thumbs up: Some of the comedy scenes that might just make you laugh
Thumbs down: Bad acting and Soha Ali Khan
Rating: 4.6/10
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