Welcome to the Jungle - Critics reviews
Hindustan Times says Akshay Kumar and team deliver a laugh riot, with Farida Jalal and Raveena Tandon stealing the show. The review says the film is packed with working gags and rarely gets dull, though it stretches toward the end.
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Koimoi calls Welcome To The Jungle the funniest family entertainer of the year, praising Akshay Kumar’s comic timing, Ahmed Khan’s handling of the massive ensemble and the film’s chaotic, nostalgia heavy humour.
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BollywoodLife calls Welcome To The Jungle a mad comedy of epic proportion, saying Akshay Kumar and the ensemble deliver a crazy entertainer.
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News18 says Welcome To The Jungle throws meta humour, slapstick, nostalgia, action and nonsense at the wall, and enough of it sticks. The review calls it a wild, logic defying ride that works best if viewers surrender to the chaos.
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Filmibeat says Akshay Kumar shines in a crowded comedy, but the film misses the magic of the original Welcome. The review criticises the stretched, uneven screenplay and forced humour, while noting that the second half has a few better comic moments.
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Times of India calls Welcome To The Jungle a chaotic comedy adventure that delivers ample laughs, saying it is overcrowded, noisy and indulgent but still has enough slapstick humour and entertainment to justify the ride.
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India TV News says Akshay Kumar leads a star studded comedy that delivers big laughs and chaos, treating the film as a noisy but entertaining franchise comedy.
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India Today says the film keeps jumping from slapstick to action, romance, patriotism, terrorism and explosions until it feels confused about its own identity. The review says the original Welcome had madness backed by writing, while this one mostly has movement.
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Indian Express says the film groans under the weight of its huge ensemble and fails to make its “brain rot” comedy fast or funny enough. The review says the premise is wafer thin and the film becomes boring despite all the chaos.
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NDTV calls Welcome To The Jungle riotous and raucous but rarely laugh out loud funny, criticising its muddled, overstuffed screenplay and jokes built around body type, ageing, speech defects and other easy targets.
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Pinkvilla calls Welcome To The Jungle a wild family entertainer with big laughs, nostalgia and hidden surprises. The review praises Akshay Kumar’s comic energy, the camaraderie with Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal and Arshad Warsi, and says the second half delivers strong laugh-out-loud moments, though the first half takes time to settle.
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Bollywood Hungama calls Welcome To The Jungle a madcap, no holds barred comic entertainer that works because of its brainrot humour, grand scale, massy moments and unexpected developments. The review says logic takes a backseat, but the film should work for audiences looking for paisa vasool madness.
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