Overall Rating: 2/5
Synopsis:
Venky (Venkatesh) and Varun (Varun Tej) are both in dire need of money all the time so they do small scams in order to earn it. Both Venky and Varun run into problems with the Manga family (Tamannah and Mehreen) and at the same time they run into a problem with a scam with Prasad (Rajendra Prasad) and his boss. In the meantime, Anand Prasad (Murali Sharma) presents an opportunity for them to get their money back. What happens next forms the rest of the story
Positives:
Some comedy sequences in the entire film
Bits of songs
Negatives:
Majority of the comedic sequences
Devi Sri Prasad
Writing and direction
Production Values
Analysis:
Riding on the monstrous success of F2, let's see how the sequel does. First off, I did enjoy all of Ravipudi's past movies the first watch, especially F2's first half comedy, but this movie was not it man. From the get-go, this movie just does not have a story present at all. It just solely rides on the comedy scenes in place and it never really deviates from that. Now let's get to the main portions of the film that do end up working out decently just because of Sunil and Ali's comedic timing. The most frustrating part of this first half of the movie is how dragged out it was. It tries to follow the same exact template of the first film with slight changes but those slight changes cause the movie to drag out heavily where the same comedy keeps getting repeated over and over again. It gets especially irritating when all 4 main leads start overreacting. At least in this film, Tamannah did not dub for herself, or else it would have been way worse. The fact that Anil Ravipudi made Venkatesh do overreact is something else. The first half also does not have a good interval block but it just stays with the flow of this movie.
The second half manages to be even worse than the first half. A lot of the second half is based on the second half of F2 but this time the comedy is significantly worse and it straight up just gets on your nerves. There are again a few sequences that were funny in the second half of the film but man it just sucks so bad. The movie then randomly jumps in spoofing a bunch of popular Telugu heroes such as Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, and Allu Arjun but yet that sequence is completely interrupted with an emotional pre-climax that just shouldn't be there. We are then taken into the climax of the film which is just a joke. It is spoofs on top of spoofs with the only bearable being the Narappa one and even then it immediately gets ruined by the Vakeel Saab one.
The music by Devi Sri Prasad is arguably so utterly bad that it takes you out of the movie except for Lab Dab Lab Dab and the background score is severely bad. The cinematography by Sai Sri Ram is ok and the editing by Tammiraju is decent at best. The writing and direction by Anil Ravipudi are atrociously bad and you can clearly see this is the start of his downfall. I strongly advise people to not waste money and watch this in theaters and that F4 should not even be considered as a possibility in the future by both Ravipudi and Dil Raju.
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