First the verdict - 1.5/5 star is what I would go with this trash.

I don't remember my wife and I suffering from a movie in the recent past that in the name of comedy has turned out to be such an over the top acting with hardly any story to tell than this one. Granted, we did really go with lot of expectation, based on our experience with Dhamaal original. We thought it would be at least as good or may be even better that the original. Yes we did crack mild laughter twice through the movie, but for better part both my wife and I kept looking at each other in the cinema hall and at one point both of us said out loud, OMG, when is this movie going to end? And since we had paid for it, we decided to suffer through it, and believe it we did, in full measure!

The story of the movie supposedly continues from its original, where the four stooges, the characters of Ashish Chowdhry, Ritech Deshmukh, Javed Jaffry, and Arshad Warsi along with the police inspector Sanjay Dutt, are forced to give up their newfound riches to a charity in full public glare. Sanjay Dutt is not prepared to give up and cooks up various scams for which he needs money. He poses like a tycoon and cons stooges into his schemes - scams actually - by promising them partnership in his seemingly legitimate business. However, the stooges would have to first bring him the seed money, which they do by scamming a local goon. Stooges are left high and dry when Sanjay flees to Macau with the seed money and becomes a real tycoon by buying a Casino. The stooges follow them there too.  Now the stooges want to bring him down. They try to infiltrate his business and personal life in various disguises. However, the situations they land up are neither funny nor the dialogs. They overact so much throughout the movie that it become annoying. The script is week, there is no story to tell, and there are holes aplenty, all of which one could have forgiven if it could evoke laughter.

Director has also thrown in Mallika Sherawat as Sanjay's sidekick, and Kangna Ranaout as his sister secretary with hardly any meaty dialogs or scenes. There are scenes where Ashish's character has to appear in women's disguise. However, with ample cleavage shows and suggestive poses it doesn't evoke any laughter either. Many male actors have carried themselves pretty convincingly in women's attire in various films, but Ashish with his longish face at best looks like a drag queen and not as a women.

Director also makes Mallika do an item number "Jalebi Bai", the choreography of which is as juice less and bland, as unlike the juicy and sweet Jalebi (Indian Sweet). After the gargantuan success of item number Munni Badnaam in the movie Dabangg, the item numbers with rustic lyrics have become a rage amongst directors. However, throwing in an item number without context is just plain stupid. Munni was a class act in terms of context, genuine rustic lyrics - very common in India's hinterland - music, and choreography, which was followed up by Sheela Ki Jawani as a "me-too" act in Tees Maar Khan. And now this Jalebi Bai in Double Dhamaal, a crass act at best.

The fact that movie has not scored much in terms of other departments is also moot here. Music is listless. Cinematography is bland - at least Macau could have been captured in its newfound riches! Somehow, all the actors, especially 4 jobless stooges, seem to wear trendy dresses even in Macau they were smuggled into without having any visible means of income. To cap it all, a scene has also been stolen lock, stock, and barrel from Raju Shrivastav, the stand up comedian's episode of Laughter Challenge reality show. Unfortunately, while the original by Shrivastav was hilarious - available in YouTube - this one was a damp squib.

There is scene in the movie where Javed is playing with marbles dressed up like a buffoon trying to act like a mentally retard in front of Ritesh's love interest, and Ritech says cornily pointing to Javed that "..he has lost his marbles". While watching that scene in the theater, it struck me how ironic that actually it is the director Indra Kumar, who seems to have lost his marbles for directing such a trash. It is very disappointing to expect trash from a director who has directed fairly decent one in the past. Actually, if the script, story, and dialog are weak, no director could redeem it. I would, however, lay the blame at director's feet for his lack of judgment in taking up this movie, probably in his sequel overzealousness. The director in fact also threatened us with another sequel to come in a scene before the end credits. OMG!

Talking about sequel, this is actually the season of sequels and remakes in Hindi cinema and everyone one seems to be on this bandwagon. Wanted, Ghajini, and Ready were remakes from southern movies. Singham releasing shortly is a remake from Tamil. Don 2 is a sequel already in the works. However, the quality of such movies so far has been a mixed bag. No Problem, which was a sequel to No Entry, turned out to be a trash, just like this one. However, Golmaal series has turned out to be at least equal or better than its predecessors.

Compared to Delhi Belly that released a week later with stellar performances, script, dialog, and direction that has the hallmark of a becoming a cult classic in Indian cinema, this movie sinks to the nadir of all that is bad in movie making. Go watch, it at your own risk.