Total Dhamaal Review: This Jungle Bungle Wild Rollercoaster Ride Of A Journey Soon Falls Short Of The Laughter Transforming Into A Snoozefest!

The film, Total Dhamaal literally consists of everything, cars crashing against each other mindlessly, broken bridges, overexcited lions and chimps, bizarre parachute landings and auto turned helicopters. But this nonsensical chaotic mess results into an amalgamation of a crass comedy with little or no reasoning out of this Indra Kumar film. This wild adventure quite literally as a bumpy ride. 

To start for, the film begins with a weak narrative right from the beginning. Even with some light moments in the second half of the film, the weak script adds to the several loose ends in the film. The film commences as an extravaganza with a track introducing all the characters. But soon the ensemble cast get intertwined amidst the weak and chaotic narrative. Out of the ensemble cast, Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor's light moments add some fun parts in the film. The pair still share an infectious chemistry and an impeccable comic timing together. The duo have an amiable love hate banter as a couple heading for divorce. Ajay Devgn makes an efficient attempt but his character is poorly shaped up and his aide Sanjay Mishra comes across as plain annoying. His constantly muttering 'bro' in the entire film fails to evoke laughter. The camaraderie between Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffery was much better executed in the previous films. The two have some potboilers and slapstick comic moments which often came across quite tedious to watch. Riteish Deshmukh gives full justice to his character of that of a Bhojpuri paan chewing money minded goon. Especially some of his scenes with Johnny Lever stole the show. The rest of the cast like Boman Inrani, Mahesh Manjrekar and Esha Gupta look like misfits due to their characters shaped up in a lousy manner. 

The punches and the one liners fail miserably at some moments. The film also showcases some forced computer graphics for all its scenes in the zoo. But as compared to the tedious first half, the second half offers some fun moments with all the characters' tryst with the animals. Director Indra Kumar fails to deliver an efficient adventure comedy this time. 

This one had the potential to be an enjoyable and light hearted adventure comedy given the talented ensemble cast. But a weak script and narrative acts as a downfall for this one.