Critics’ Verdict: ‘Welcome Back’ is Senseless but Funny

Take a look at how critics are reacting to Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar and John Abraham’s ‘Welcome Back’

Excerpts from reviews of Welcome Back:

Welcome Back is a straightforward, unabashed copy of Welcome and like the first film, this one wears its stupidity proudly on its sleeve. Does any of Welcome Back make sense? Absolutely not. Is any of it realistic or credible? Only if you’re on a diet of nothing but hallucinogens. But who cares as long as Uday, Majnu and Ghungroo are being idiotic on screen? Welcome Back might be 2015’s silliest film and this is the best reason to watch it. After all, when was the last time you came out of the cinema giggling?
– Deepanjana Pal (Firstpost.com)

Welcome Back rolls it all out with vengeance: snazzy automobiles, eye-popping locations, flashy conmen, a relentlessly obtrusive background score and an unconscionably elongated climax in the desert.
But nothing that this nonsensical action comedy unleashes, not even the in-form Anil Kapoor-Nana Patekar pair, can compensate for its absence of substance.
Welcome Back, a follow-up to a money-spinning comic romp made all of seven years ago, is as appealing as a dunk in a garbage dump.
– Saibal Chatterjee (Ndtv.com)

Anees Bazmee’s Welcome Back aspires to be nothing more “timepass”, that untranslatable Indianism that for a comedy film is greater praise than a five-star review.
The film doesn’t let you forget that it is a sequel to the 2007 hit Welcome – flashbacks re-run the best gags from the original, and cue the back stories of the key characters. As if to add to the sequel’s cheerful acknowledgement of its own anything-goes messiness, there are flashbacks to events that took place only a few minutes ago.
Some of it is knee-slapping fun, some of it tedious, and much of it disposable. Uday Shetty sums up the movie’s intent perfectly in the climactic sequence: as if we haven’t had enough, we have to now to endure a storm. Fortunately at this point, somebody on the production ran out of money and patience.
– Nandini Ramnath (Scroll.in)