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2015·122 min·Released

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Drama
Comedy

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Judi Dench Movie HD

Cast & Crew

Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Sonny Kapoor

Judi Dench

Judi Dench

Evelyn Greenslade

Richard Gere

Richard Gere

Guy Chambers

Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith

Muriel Donnelly

Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy

Douglas Ainslie

Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie

Madge Hardcastle

Penelope Wilton

Penelope Wilton

Jean Ainslie

Ronald Pickup

Ronald Pickup

Norman Cousins

Diana Hardcastle

Diana Hardcastle

Carol Parr

Tina Desai

Tina Desai

Sunaina

Lillete Dubey

Lillete Dubey

Mrs. Kapoor

David Strathairn

David Strathairn

Ty Burley

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Jack

Written on 5/13/2020

Just like the first film, this one also takes you to a very special journey you can never forget. The honesty of the characters and how relatable they are is what made the first film so charming and unique applies to this film too. These two films have a very special place in my heart. Would I watch it again? Absolutely! Would I make my friends watch it? Definitely.

CinemaSerf

Written on 8/12/2023

Well hats off to John Madden for managing to reassemble the cast from the first film from four years earlier, and for securing the sparing services of Richard Gere but I'm afraid the rest of this is all a poor cousin. With the hotel now more successful, "Sonny" (Dev Patel) and "Mrs. Donnelly" (Dame Maggie Smith) are in the USA trying to seek funding for them to expand, and to buy the former women's palace for their next venture. Returning, and expecting an inspector to come and evaluate their business they greet the arrival of writer "Chambers" (Gere) and of new guest "Lavinia" (Tamsin Greig) in slightly different manners - and that's the first mistake for "Sonny"! The first film had a freshness to it, they (and we) were are all exploring a new life with new opportunities in a new bustling city: this is a much less joyful affair. Everyone appears to be looking towards the end; the characters are much flatter and slightly more depressed. The mischievous characterisations from Ronald Pickup and Celia Imrie have entered a rather uninteresting cul-de-sac. Familial discord between Sonny, his fiancée and his mother is all just a bit too convoluted and the story just, frankly, runs out of steam. Patel exudes charisma, he does way more to carry this than any of others and in the end comes up with quite a decent bit of dancing too. It's colourful and it's doesn't hang about, but Dame Maggie, in particular, has lost much of her curmudgeonly charm and Dame Judi really rather simpers through the film with little of the spark we saw before. To be honest, I'm not really sure the first film really merited a sequel at all. This one is really not very memorable and Richard Gere's character adds very little indeed.

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Judi Dench Movie HD

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Judi Dench Movie HD