New Delhi, June 26 -- At 164 minutes and 50 seconds, Welcome to the Jungle doesn't just overstay its welcome, it practically moves in. The third film in the Welcome franchise arrives with a gargantuan ensemble cast, an enormous budget and plenty of spectacle and songs. What it delivers is a chaotic, overstuffed comedy with very little jungle and an awful lot of mangled storytelling. The film opens with Johnny Lever's character, Dubey, saying 'This is Welcome' three times, followed by 'Teen baar welcome or Welcome 3'. If you want to qualify the tone of humour, it's summed up right there-pedestrian, over-stated, self-congratulating.

There is no real attempt to reinvent the franchise. Instead, director Ahmed Khan's Welcome to the Jungle, ba...