Slumdog Millionaire

The Academy Awards are over and Slumdog Millionaire won Eight Oscars. Eight Oscars, this must be a great movie I thought. So me and my Honey Bunney decided to go see how great of a movie it is. We caught an afternoon matinee for Five bucks and a free pocorn. After seeing the movie I will say it is a movie worth seeing. Is it Eigth Oscars good? I don't think so.

If you have not seen the movie, again it is worth seeing. The movie is a love story about two kids Jamal and Latika who grow up destined to be together. Jamal ends up a contestant on Indias version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". Jamal answers all of the questions correctly and of course before he can answer the last question time on the show runs out and Jamal will have to return tomorow to answer the last question. As Jamal is leaving the Television Studio he is arrested and interogated by the police. The Police want to know if he is cheating or how he knows all the answers. Jamal starts to tell them how he has come to know each and every answer. Each answer is connected to an event in his life that he could not forget.

It shows Jamal and his older brother Salim and how they grew up in Mumbai. How Jamal meets Latika and loses touch with her. How he finds her only to lose her again. Jamal knows if he can get on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" that Latika will see him and come back to him.

The movie is a coming of age story, a love story, a gangster story, a good movie not a great one. I was entertained but, it did not make me want to cheer or cry or get angry or be overly happy in the end. I was not emotionally connected to the charecters in any way. Gran Torino was a much better movie in making the audience emotionally connected to the charecters and the story. (See my review of Gran Torino). Overall I would give Slumdog Millionaire Four and a half Twirls with a couple of moth catcher hand moves thrown in. A good movie worth seeing but not a great movie worth Eight Oscars. Twirls are based on a five Twirl system.