70s masala aesthetic, paisa wasool, leave your brains at home, entertainment â€" there will be a lot of apologies like these thrown at Dabangg 2, the preserve of films that are lacking somewhat and yet must be apologized for, because you like certain things about it, but not the whole.
In this case, you like Salman Khan and not much else. It's a sequel to a film with unique aesthetic created (and owing much to Telugu cinema) by Abhinav Kashyap, with nary a sign of him and his interesting voice. This is all the masala bits, and masala bits only, ramped up to eleven, with none ....