Action Replay has some similarity with a Hollywood film.

When proposed to, Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor) refuses to marry his girlfriend because he has seen his parents Kishan (Akshay Kumar) and Mala (Aishwarya Rai) fight since he was born. Even on their 35th marriage anniversary, they fight as if they were sworn enemies. A strong-minded Bunty steals a ride on a time machine invented by his girlfriend's grandfather to go back in time to make it all right.

Doing this will be tougher than he had anticipated as he finds his parents very different from what they are today. Parenting ones parents, Bunty would realize, is the toughest job in the entire world.

The basic idea isn't new. Even before ‘Back To The Future' made it famous, traveling to the past to correct one's present was staple food of science fictions. It is, after all, the ultimate human fantasy.

What is new is how ‘Action Replayy' lays bare the diversity between two of the biggest commercial filmmaking centers of the world, Hollywood and Bollywood. While in ‘Back To The Future' the stress is on science fiction and survival of the time traveler, here it is on human relations and the various emotions linked with it.

Also the paper thin, clichéd villains of the movie shows that Bollywood is still in a time-wrap. But ‘Action Replayy' can perhaps afford to, it being a time-wrap tale and all.

Lot of hard work have been made to get the sets right, and astonishingly it often works. Vignettes of olden advertisements, carefully made a part of the set by the filmmakers, make it a thrill to watch, especially for those from that era.

The costumes, however, try too hard to be retro. If you watch movies of those period, they were not so flowery and jazzy as in this movie. However, given the lighter vein in which the movie is made, it is perhaps acceptable.

Aishwarya and Akshay are as good as Bollywood can get, which isn't much. Pritam's music is regular and only when we do an action replay from the high plinth of the future, will we come to know the corners of the world he has plagiarized from.

Few satires are very funny, especially the one on the Gujarati band led by Mahesh Kumar whose brother can sing in two voices. The one where the son is greatly trying to make his retro father understand the concept of sex and uses the typical Hindi film analogy of two flowers meeting is a laugh-riot.

Despite this the movie misses many opportunities for gags that can easily be part of a time travel movie. Just the inclusion of names common today like Obama, Mallika Sherawat, Saif Ali Khan etc., does not necessarily make it entertaining.

‘Action Replayy' despite its best intention and few successes, fails in many others.

On the whole, it is an average film.