The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) 8/10

Starring : Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel
Director : John Madden
Running Time : 124 mins

When a group of British over-50s decide they’ve had enough of life in the UK for a variety of different reasons, they each individually respond to an online advertisement offering them the chance to travel to Jaipur in India and spend their remaining years living at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. When they arrive they are greeted by overly optimistic young manager Sonny (Patel), and a hotel that hasn’t been fully built yet.

This is a great movie filled with humour, drama, romance and even death. It really is a good old fashioned British movie that takes a simple concept (reminiscent of Carry On Abroad) and throws some very different characters into a situation that is just as annoying for all of them, yet they soon band together to help out the hotel manager when they realise how much they love the place,

You’ll like this if you liked : Carry On Abroad