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Overall Rank: 28899

Average Rating: 2/4

# of Ratings: 6

Theatrical Release Date: 04/28/2023

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 06/20/2023

Language: English

Genre: Action, Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Director: Nida Manzoor

Actors: Ritu Arya, Priya Kansara, Nimra Bucha, Akshay Khanna, Ella Bruccoleri, Seraphina Beh

Plot: Ria Khan is training in martial arts and would do anything for her older sister, Lena, including saving her from her impending marriage. With the help of a few friends, the group will plan the most ambitious, audacious wedding heist - and stand up for sisterhood everywhere. -- Chris Kavan

Chris Kavan - wrote on 11/19/2023

I wanted to like this more and although Ritu Arya and Priya Kansara are stand-outs in their roles, the film itself bounces around from slap-stick comedy action to more serious family drama to over-the-top Disney-level evil - enough to give one wihiplash. If the film could have settled on a tone, I think it would have worked out much better but as it stands, it's much too random to make it more than a quaint curiosity.

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 07/13/2023

I really wanted to like this one, because it looked and sounded like such a fun idea. But "Polite Society" is like if Disney Channel tried to produce its own "Cornetto Trilogy".

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SIngli6 - wrote on 05/09/2023

At a loss with this one. Its fight scenes operate on Musical logic, being diegetic but barely even ancillary. They are outrageous externalisations of grounded conflicts usually expressed through dialogue. An interesting conceit to give genre spark to a family drama story.

That's not what this film is, though. I mean yes, it DOES have elements of drama and every conflict in this film revolves around family and legacy, but it also has a villainous plot from the realms of science fiction and teenagers coordinating Mission: Impossible heists from an attic. This isn't some West Asian John Hughes movie, this is Agent Cody Banks with an f-bomb. What's so shameful about doing mixed-martial arts scenes you need to dress it up with these weird meta abstractions?