“Vijay”: A Lame “Tootsie” Knockoff
Sometimes a review is so withering that it makes me eager to see the object of derision. Today’s example was skewered in Variety: ‘Mickey Rooney was more convincingly Chinese in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s†than Teuton thesp Moritz Bleibtreu proves as a sham Sikh in “Vijay and I,†a limp “Mrs. Doubtfireâ€/â€Tootsie†knockoff that serves mainly to illustrate just how tricky it can be to reproduce the feel of a well-oiled Hollywood romantic comedy in the no man’s land of Europudding tax-shelter production.’ Can’t wait!
