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Tuesday's short version in the Voice

Wednesday's longer, canonical LA Weekly version.

Whatever our reactions, we're stuck with them. We put down what we have to say. That's the Code of the West. But there are certainly times when you wish your reactions were different; which is to say, that the movie was better. An Indian movie made in China (not the first, I suspect; Shammi Kapoor got pretty close in Singapore)? An intersection of Bollywood and the martial arts? Part of what we're regretting is the movie's failure to rise to a memorable occasion. With a premise that rich it should have been at least a hundred times better.

ALSO: ""Chandni Chowk to China" won't attract many fans of kung fu -- or Adam Sandler, for that matter. The title and the ads will cause them to think for a second, an unacceptable delay for fanboys. It will appeal to the large Indian audiences in North America and to Bollywood fans in general, who will come out wondering why this movie, of all movies, was chosen as Hollywood's first foray into commercial Indian cinema. I don't know a whole lot about Bollywood, and even I could name some better possibilities." -- Roger Ebert

Variety.

Entertainment Weekly.

Bollywood Hungama. Hilarious.