Movies based on superheroes generally are not as exciting to watch as their promos. Yet, every time a new superhero surfaces on screen, audiences are ever eager to check it out. However, Iron Man is refreshingly different.

If you’re not familiar with Iron Man, he is a hero created by Marvel in the ’60s. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is a billionaire playboy and head of a company making sophisticated weapons for the US army. During a trip to Afghanistan, Tony is kidnapped by insurgents and asked by his captors to build the most lethal bomb for them.

Instead, Tony hatches an escape plan revolving around a metallic suit.

A novel plot, good acting and affable characters make Mad Money an enjoyable watch but because of a weak screenplay, it falls just short of becoming memorable.

Bridget (Diane Keaton), a high middle-class woman who has just faced the economic meltdown of the US with her husband being downsized at work, is forced to take up a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank which is into destroying soiled currency notes. At the bank, Bridget forges an unexpected alliance with Nina (Queen Latifa), a hard-working single mum with two kids, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), an exuberant free spirit with nothing to lose.

The three devise an elaborate plan to siphon the soon to be destroyed currency out of the airtight Reserve Bank.

It’s an out and out copy of the 1989 Hollywood comedy The Dream Team, but Rakesh Roshan’s Krazzy4 does little to live up to the original.

Same plot, similar characters but the screenplay leaves much to be desired. Even the songs appear out of nowhere and are just thrust upon you.

The only saving grace of debutant director Jaideep Sen’s movie are Irrfan Khan and Rajpal Yadav, who keep the audience entertained with their comic capers.

When three of Hollywood’s biggest icons get together what would you expect?

A movie that should keep you glued to your seats till the end. But instead what you get in The Bucket List is an average, lukewarm entertainer.

Directed by Rob Reiner, who has delivered gems in the past such as When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men, this movie fails to impress. The script is listless and even the presence of acting legends Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman do not help the cause.