Kick 2 movie review: Ravi Teja's film makes you laugh (at it)

Direction: Surender Reddy

Cast: Ravi Teja, Rakul Preet Singh, Brahmanandam, Ravi Kishan, Tanikella Barani, Rajpal Yadav, Sanjai Mishra

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It is intriguing that one after the other, heroes in recent Telugu films want to save some village or the other. It's not even been two weeks since Mahesh Babu's Srimanthudu, a film about a billionaire helping a village, hit the screens, and here is Ravi Teja's Kick 2, that has a similar story line.

Robinhood, son of Kalyan (the hero of the prequel), like his father, has an obsession. But unlike his father, he is not obsessed with deriving a kick out of everything. Rather, the subject of his obsessive compulsive disorder is 'comfort'. He is ready to go to any extent to keep himself comfortable. His craving for comfort is such that he becomes a doctor just so that he can be comfortable treating himself, and obviously he comes across as an eccentric to everyone around him. Like father, like son.

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The narcissistic, selfish and full-of-himself hero comes from America to India to solve a dispute over an ancestral property, and he meets the heroine Chaitra (Rakul Preet), who acts as a screenplay writer. Chaitra is from a village, which is in suffering in the hands of the cruel villain Suleiman Thakur (self-proclaimed Son of God), played by Ravi Kishan. The rest of the story is about the Son of God vs the Son of Devil (hero calls himself that).

In the two-hour-forty-minutes of the film, the only thing that holds your attention is the comedy track between Ravi Teja and Brahmanandam. The veteran comedian never disappoints with his body language or dialogue delivery. Not only Brahmanandam, every actor from Tanikella Barani, Rajpal Yadav to Sanjai Mishra have delivered their best. But in a movie with a very loose screenplay and shallow intensity, performances can only do so much.

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The action and comedy sequences are so illogical and absurd that they make one wonder whether the film is set in the real world or some contrived world of the director (fantasy film gone wrong?). For instance, Robinhood thrashes Thakur's son to an almost-dead state, and with few massages and gimmicks (remember he is a doctor?), he brings him back to life and challenges him for a duel again.

It is of course not fair to ask for logic in commercial entertainers, and also watching a film needs willing suspension of disbelief, but Kick 2 asks for willing suspension of common sense to enjoy it.