The best part about a Bollywood action film is that after the hero kicks some ass, he gets to sing about it. There is, literally, a song a dance that accompanies the major plot points of Dabangg 2: nothing this evil ever resists passively. Think if this applied to Hollywood films —
Imagine, if you will, Harrison Ford:
♪Dude with the big knife wanted to play
So I took out my pistol and blew him away♫
Or Bruce Willis:
♪Hans, he wanted those detonators
But I showed all those player hators♫
♪I can’t remember much at all
This really is too much for me to Recall
I can see my fate written in the stars
I’d better get my ass back to Mars
To Mars
To Mars
Get my ass to Mars♫
You don’t want to see the one for Brokeback Mountain.
As you may recall from Dabangg, our hero is supercop Chulbul Pandey (Salman Khan), affectionately 
known as “Kung fu Pandey.” The most obvious evidence of cultural divide between Bollywood and Hollywood is not Pandey’s dancing and singing, nor a pudginess that mysteriously disappears when he removes his shirt in Act III, nor even his status as happily married. For me, the cultural divide hits hardest when you check out his porn ‘stache. Want a kick-ass caterpillar to go with kicking ass? Think Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds. Go big or go home, Mahatma Bronson.
Pandey is good at kicking-ass Matrix style. The camera work is very good early on with the stop-action-floating-rotation shots and the speed-up-slow-down used to great comic effect. Pandey is both supercop and new kid on the block, having moved for sequel purposes. Hindi Jon Lovitz (Prakash Raj) tries his best to thwart supercop, but what really thwarts him is the turn from comedy to drama. You can’t have a guy punch a guy through a wall and then sing about punching a guy through a wall, actually lose a family member. As Dabangg 2 moves forward, the tone gets more and more serious and you start wondering, “where was all the fun violence?” and “why is he still singing?”
And why am I still writing?
♪He bangg! He bangg!
Yeah, baby, when he schmooz
Yeah, he moves like some oxen and stings like chutney
(Un)like any hero in history♫
Not Rated, 110 Minutes
D: Arbaaz Khan
W: Dilip Shukla
Genre: Action Bollywood
Type of person most likely to enjoy this film:Homesick Indian-Americans
Type of person least likely to enjoy this film:Schwarzenegger worshippers
