Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) by Ethan P — 10 Jan 2016

The Hundred Foot Journey was a delightful surprise. Yes it was rudimentary and lacked originality, but it is a perfectly distracting feel good movie with considerable charm. I expected it to be a slow and dry retread, but it has a lot of life and emotion.

The characters love their food and it creates both a war and a love affair. The characters are very amiable and good-looking, but they lack much real depth. My favorite part of the film was actually the middle.

The feud between the two restaurants was played very well. It was amusing, and the interplay between the two generations of lovers was great, one dueling and one falling in love. The attack on the Indian restaurant, Hassan burning his hands and Helen Mirren firing her next in line was the height of the movie.

IT gave the movie guts and depth, but from there it veered into very predictable and somewhat melodramatic territory. The older couple falls in love, the younger one splits apart, he rises to glory but gets lonely returns home.

Happily ever after.