This is the worst movie i have seen in a long time. I cant believe that shankar can make such a bad movie. The story line is lifted from several Hollywood movies. The last 30 minutes of the movie is the most painful. You have to be an infant to enjoy the last 30 minutes. That is probably the worst movie making in the history of feature films. Please turn off your brain and watch this movie if you have to. 6.8 is way to high for this movie. This is probably a 2/10 movie.This is easily the worst movie for both Rajini and Sankar. Both very talented people, but i don't know why they had to stoop this low. The gfx in the last 30 minutes is a joke. Aishwarya as usual has no big role but to appear pretty and make few dance moves.

First of all, the animation is out of rating, its extremely bad. As if an intern students were hired. Story wise its good.. Comedy not bad too.Aishwarya Rai was perfect on screen. Her roles was pretty simple and the movie so do the story suits her perfectly.Shantanam as usual rocked the movie with his comedy and the partner in the movie was great too.The trailer looks good, but don't get cheated with the trailer, as the movie is not up to the expectation. No hard feelings to Rajni fans. Rajni still rocks his style till now ! He never fails in doing that. But in the movie, the animation spoils it.

What is there to say, amongst these lyrical reviews by Indian fans of 'Superstar Rajinikanth'?Yes, it is an interesting movie. As is to be expected from a movie about robots from 'the East', where robots are becoming a familiar sight in peoples daily lives, while in the West robots for most people are still science fiction.And yes, the special effects are pretty cool, although they do look a little bit cheap here and there (try to watch them without sound and you will see what I mean). It's definitely the first time that I saw a swarm of humanoid robots, and director Shankar (who also wrote the screenplay) definitely gets the most out of this ingenious concept, both visually and conceptually.I fact, the idea and its elaboration are so cool, it's easy to forgive the filmmakers the a bit too simple story and rather flat characters. Girlfriend Sana is only beautiful (although rather extremely beautiful) and her only goal in life is to get the attention of her boyfriend. The helpers of the inventor are only (very) silly and start a big mess by falling in the trap of the bad guy and the bad guy is... well.. dressed in black and jealous and all that.That's OK. But what is UNFORGIVABLE, for Western eyes, is that the middle of the coolest action, everybody just starts dancing! Why would they do that? The kitsch Bollywood music videos that you find yourself suddenly watching are really silly, are totally unrelated to style of the rest of the movie, take the flow out of it and they are just WAY TOO LONG.And why are they situated all over the world? The story is situated exclusively in India, but all of a sudden you see the main characters dancing in Peru,of all places. Why? Did the director need an excuses for having a nice trip to some other continents? Or do Indian spectators don't mind this incongruity? Or, more interesting still, do they actually appreciate it?As reviewer Mahesh Kothamangalam on IMDb said: 'The songs are spectacular. Shankar shows the audience some of the best places in the world all for a few bucks.' Now, that's another way to look it! Maybe I should try to reevaluate my all too rational European expectations and judgment, but when people start dancing in an otherwise cool movie, I really have a hard time doing that. Hello cultural difference!So, if you don't like musicals (or just don't want them to be mixed up in your sf movie), skip the silly dancing and singing parts. You will see, this is actually a great movie. And if you want to know what the future of cinema is, don't skip the dancing parts. India with 1.2 billion people is one of the largest emerging economies. Bollywood probably really IS the new Hollywood.

Endhiran (The Robot) is the much-touted Indian sci-fi extravaganza that debuted last year. If you've seen the trailer, you'll have a pretty good idea what you're getting into. A roboticist builds a lifelike robot and begins teaching him how to become human. The scenes practically write themselves, but they're overpowered by frequent song and dance numbers that interrupt the flow of the movie. These are mildly entertaining at first for their sheer novelty, but by the fourth number I started looking at my watch.If not for these distractions, Endhiran would fit right in with Hollywood's blockbusters. It certainly regurgitates enough gags from them, with a particular fondness for The Matrix and Terminator films (Woo-Ping Yuen was hired to choreograph the stunts, so it's not too surprising). Naming the origins of its low-rent scenes ahead of your friends might make for an interesting drinking game, but the lack of imagination is disappointing. It does try to put its own spin on familiar ideas, but is most successful when it pits man vs machine for the love of a woman. But it takes far too long to build up to that, and the fun action sequences are fleeting.At nearly three hours long, some cuts here and there would be appreciated. There's a disproportionate number of scenes with questionable value (ones with talking mosquitoes, and another where a woman gives birth come to mind), and they're not always entertaining for the right reasons. I wouldn't say that Endhiran is so bad that it's only worth watching just for laughs, but it comes pretty darn close.In the end, this is a tough one to recommend due to its taxing length and general stupidity, never mind the largely unwelcome Bollywood-style numbers (Endhiran isn't considered a true Bollywood film because it was filmed in Chennai in Tamil). But the action scenes, with their cartoon physics and utter disregard for realism, are pretty hilarious. The grand finale, in which hundreds of humanoid robots band together like modular parts to form gigantic snakes, drills, and other stuff might be enough to sway this one into the "must see" category, if you're in the mood for something totally crazy. Just be prepared to wade through a whole lot of cheese to get there.