Delhi Belly (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #33 extract: Delhi Belly (2011)

Far from a masterpiece, but entertaining enough, Delhi Belly is a too-much-in-one-day crime-thriller dark-comedy; it is Adventures In Baby Sitting, Harold & Kumar Go To Whitecastle, It's A Mad...World, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Hangover, etc, but, with a lot of poop jokes (Delhi Belly itself is a poop joke... so that says a lot). 

What sets Delhi Belly aside from the mentioned films somewhat is the density and intricacy of the plot; this film runs at a million miles an hour with no true A plot and B plot but an alphabet of plots forming one huge flow of narrative. Getting swept up into this makes Delhi Belly a highly entertaining film despite its shaky writing - which uses expletives with no sense of reason or natural cadence, an incredible amount of cliches and ridiculously low-brow jokes. If you're then looking for some nonsensical blockbuster fun, Delhi Belly may be the film for you.