Surprisingly incoherent and boring

An action-packed slog

Absolutely the worst movie.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I have to say, the first Hera Pheri was hilarious and probably one of the best Hindi comedy films ever. But Phir Hera Pheri really doesn't live up to that.A lot of the jokes were lame and somewhat immature, and there was a lot of extreme overacting at parts. Rajpal Yadav and Johnny Lever weren't really at their full potential of comedy, and honestly they got annoying.The story was a ripoff. The performances were decent. Paresh Rawal once again did the best, he really saved this movie. Akshay Kumar and Sunil Shetty were average. They both were good in parts however. Rimi Sen and Bipasha Basu are nothing. They were just there to attract people. However, here and there there were some scenes that reminded you of the prequel. The music was bad. Since this film was released at around the time Himesh began to sing and act himself, the music is mainly Himesh singing himself and that was painful to hear.Overall, this movie had high expectations, but mainly disappointed. I'd rate it an overall 5 out of 10.

I'm writing this comment today because i was compelled to do so. Not by any one but after watching "Lock stock and two smoking barrels". I had this British movie with me for an year, but couldn't find time to watch it. Until my friend asked me to sit and watch it with him. To my shock, i knew the whole story for LS and 2 SB. So i decided not to break silence and watch movie with my friend. But at the back of my head i was cursing Priyadarshan and his team consisting of This Vohra guy. Believe me i have seen "Phir Hera Pheri" twice and i couldn't understand its ending. It made no sense as compared to Hera pheri. I always believed that i'm missing something in this movie and felt that the random hubbly jubbly in the end with all the cast members at the same time was useless. But boy O boy was i wrong. That ending was never meant for this movie and why??? The whole plot including dialogues has been imported from LS and Two smoking barrels. Now if you see this Guy ritchie movie it made sense and you kind of feel relaxed at the end. But "Phir hera pheri" simply blows. I have lost all respect for Priyadarshan and his team. Shame on you guys. Its good Bollywood is making sequels,but please guys spare us from the simple remakes of Hollywood, British, french, Italian, Argentinian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese or from wherever you get your inspiration.( or i may say movies to copy). Thank you.P.S. This movie rightly deserves 2-3/10. No matter how good the acting was or music was or chick factor. Its the matter of originality. and i Loved "Hera Pheri" which i watched like 30 times.

A sequel has its upsides and flipsides. The upside is that it can redeem on the recall value of the prequel and attract audiences to the theatres. The flipside however is that it has to meet the gigantic expectations of the prequel to satisfy the audiences sitting in the theatres. Most sequels turn a victim of this flipside. Phir Hera Pheri is no exception. When judged on its own merit, Phir Hera Pheri is a fairly entertaining comedy flick. But comparisons with the prequel, though unfair, are inevitable and that's where the film might disappoint to an extent. The writer of the prequel, Neeraj Vora writes and directs this sequel. Vora manages to pull of the film from where it ended in the first part and also maintains connectivity between the two films. And since the characters were already established in the first part, he wastes no time here to go ahead with the storyline. Raju (Akshay Kumar), Shyam (Suniel Shetty) and Baburao (Paresh Rawal) who earn big bucks at the end of the first part; live a lavish life at the start of the second episode. But with money comes greed for more money. So in the greed to double their money, they borrow more money from underworld and invest it in a chit fund on the behest of Anuradha (Bipasha Basu). But the company turns out to be bogus and thereby they lose all their assets coming back to square one. From here on starts their attempt in paying back loans taken from the underworld. The movie runs on jet speed pace and you hardly get time to breathe, gasp, feel, absorb, react or relate. With every alternate scene a new gang is introduced and by the interval point you have around a dozen mobsters linked to each other. The film is clustered with so many characters that you lose count after a point of time. While Neeraj Vora scores as a writer; to an extent, he fails as a director. On the writing part, despite so many characters to handle, he etches an interesting screenplay connecting all of them. Obviously you are not expected to think logically in today's comedies. Off lately, slapstick has turned out to be an easy alternative to tongue-in-cheek humor. So you don't have to exercise your brains cells when a circus gorilla (a palpable human in a monkey mask) is in pursuit of Johny Lever in the climax, as far as the duo makes you laugh. Or for that matter, don't think twice when the mastermind of first part, Akshay Kumar falls for a silly trap of doubling money in the second. But then these minuscule loopholes can be overlooked.What cannot be overlooked are the over-the-top loud performances. There's where Vora's directorial skills come into question in extracting performances from the cast. While none of the actors are bad, they are unnecessarily boisterous at times. Vora also ends up sketching caricature characters of a stammering gangster duo (played by Sharat Saxena and Ravi Kissen) to evoke humor. The humor is more formulated. While Vora overuses Paresh Rawal, he overlooks Suniel Shetty. Paresh Rawal gets the maximum gags and is ably supported by Akshay Kumar who compliments Rawal for a perfect comic chemistry. While showcasing the dumbness of his character Baburao, Paresh Rawal at times stretches the jokes too far and goes overboard. Akshay Kumar has a spontaneous comic timing, but off late with this similar kind of roles, he is getting typecast. However he's far better tickling the funny bone than indulging in emotional inanities like Humko Deewana Kar Gaye. Phir Hera Pheri essentially tried to use the original Hera Pheri pairing of Akshay-Suniel-Paresh as its USP. But post Hera Pheri; there have been so many films with the trio combination like Awara Pagal Deewana, Aan: Men at Work and Deewane Hue Pagal that there's hardly any novelty or a recreated charm effect when they come together here. One aspect where the film is better than its prequel is that unlike Hera Pheri where there were half a dozen redundant forced songs and item numbers, in Phir Hera Pheri the songs don't intrude in proceedings and are kept at their minimal best runtime. Phir Hera Pheri does induce plenty of laughter. But you do feel that with a little more fine-tuning, it could have been even more hilarious. The extended climax is aptly set in a circus that brings the entire clown-cum-caricature cast together. The movie however ends quite abruptly, keeping enough scope for a sequel to continue the series. We just hope that the next episode gets better.

Its indeed first is always first but the 2nd one really shocked everyone as it was no where near 2nd part of Mallu movie Ramji Rao Speaking...and all the credit goes to Neeraj! Not to forget the Hera Pheri 1st where Paresh himself mentioning after receiving the best actor award...that the credit goes to Neeraj as Paresh is a total guju guy and due to Neeraj..he could project the marathi guy in 1st movie..all credit goes to the script writer and his perception as even the director directs but the key sense to the soul is the script writer..and I would say being a 2nd it really bags the credit for what it has done! A movie which will chuckle your bones and you don't worry about anything when you are driving back to home... Kudos to Neeraj the comedy king Cheers