Animal

How to Make Your Audience Uncomfortable 101 : Watching it felt like sitting through 3.5 hours of pure discomfort, secondhand embarrassment and disbelief that anyone thought this was a good idea. It constantly portrays women as gullible, as if a man complimenting their "wide pelvis" for childbirth is all it takes to win them over. The director, who also wrote the film and its dialogues, clearly has a very low opinion of women — and it shows in every scene, every conversation, every regressive moment. It's hard not to wonder what he must think of women in real life if he believes this is how female characters should behave. The movie never misses a chance to make the audience uncomfortable, stuffing in endless unnecessary references to sex, male genitalia and vulgar, tone-deaf moments that add nothing to the story. One of the most disturbing scenes involves Bobby Deol’s character publicly raping his new bride — a completely horrifying moment that feels thrown in just for shock value. Then there’s the utterly pointless conversation about the main lead’s underwear, and a female lead who shows zero growth — blindly loving a husband who cheats on her, gaslights her, and even threatens to kill her if she ever considers doing the same. Before going off to a major fight, he even has the audacity to ask her to promise she won’t marry anyone else if he dies — because clearly, loyalty is a one-way street here. The movie has lots of vulgar scenes ranging from Rashmika removing her top in front of the house help to physologist asking Ranbir about his sex life in front of the whole family. Director somehow felt these scenes were relevant to the story. As if all that wasn’t enough, the audience is treated to Ranbir Kapoor dramatically chanting "papa, papa, papa" every few minutes — just in case anyone forgot he has father issues. The action scenes are nonsensical, the emotional arcs are laughable, and the runtime feels punishingly endless. By the end you're just left wondering how something so tone-deaf, exploitative, and mind-numbingly exhausting ever got made.

Animal does feel like a different movie but definitely could have been much better, if only the writer was cautious about the world-building than finding ways to poke critics for their reviews on his previous movies "Arjun Reddy" and "Kabir Singh", created a better character setup for Zoya and improved the writing at some crucial places. Otherwise, the film leaves with a lot of technical departments to admire like editing, sound design, music, various narrative techniques used in screenplay, direction, performances of the cast, level and handling of violence, cinematography etc. That would surely engage the audience to the very end despite its long running time of 3hr. 21mins.

It takes time to tell a good story, no matter how outrageous. It takes time to tell a good story, and if patience isnt your strong suit, dont watch movies that are 3 hours 20m long. Outstanding characters, fantastic ongoing development. This is 100% a movie for men by men. The women are fantastic. Its chaotic, funny, a lot going on. One scene is seemingly out of place, I watched it and then again with a mate and we both couldnt understand what had happened there. He loves his papa and nobody gunna stop a boys love for his papa. Only India could pull this off.

Pathetic, third-class movie that objectifies women and promotes harassment against them.

Besides some irregularities in the screenplay ( 2nd half) and a few dialogues, it's an avant garde film with an innovative and fresh approach towards a mainstream film. Kudos to Sandeep and his extremely dedicated team for making a "paisa vasool" film for the audience. Ranbir is menacing as Ranvijay which is an attest of his acting prowess. Loved the rest of the real cast also. ( Especially Rashmika).

A long, exaushting movie with no explanation to why its lead is so violent just because of some attention deficit from his father, too many things justified in the name of a "broken" man, and way too much ego pleasing from the director which ultimately antagonizes the audience - he doesn't let us enjoy the movie and makes us uncomfortable, just for the "shock" factor. The only thing that saves this overblown mess is some good action, performances that will be remembered for years to come, and music which is perfectly made and placed.

Problematic , misleading message but entertaining !

Society should be like this only. If they are craving for high value and strong men, then this is also inevitable.

Solid screenplay in the first half, terrific performance by cast , adrenaline rushed interval block & emotional songs fail to save the film from becoming a weakly written unnecessarily toxic boring film (especially in the second half) Had a lot of potential but missed the mark Definitely expect better from Animal Park, Vanga sir 🙌

ACTING WISE OKAY,BUT SOME LACK OF STORY TELLING AND CHARACTER SHOWING