Throughout the film, there are many situations that could have been funny, but writer Khaled Diab not only killed the humor within them, he didn’t even bother to write a script that seems plausible or makes sense. Diab mocks the audience intelligence with this poorly developed script, based on ridiculous events like a character that develops amnesia when hit on the head, only to regain his memory when hit again, or surviving a fall from a plane unscathed. The movie depends too much on slap-stick comedy and immature sexual innuendos instead of well-thought situational humor. The movie is too long and transitions between the storyline and hospital scenes are dry.
Sitting in the movie theater watching this film, I found the most ironic part during the movie to be when the actors laugh in the film more than the audience; it seems as though they were laughing at us, the gullible audience foolish enough to come to this movie, rather than with us at a sketch that was not funny.
Ahmed Helmy, usually an actor with high personal charisma and comedic skills depends on his personal reputation to draw an audience to this film. Such a risk may not destroy his name over night, but one more gamble like this could cost him his career.
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