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Sola Sobowale as usual over acted her Tinuade Coker but in one scene provided the movie’s only truly endearing emotional moment. Ireti Doyle again nailed her ice queen and uppity Obianuju Onwuka but it would be nice to see her portray a non-ice queen and uppity character someday. As Chief Onwuka, the only thing remotely Igbo about Richard Mofe-Damijo’s portrayal of the character is his Igbo name and costume. It was grating watching him portray a supposed oil magnate like a version of Frank Doga’s Harrison dressed in more expensive threads.

The movie was riddled with the usual tropes grating histrionics, trademark over-acting, unintelligent/unfunny portrayal of stereotypes and a canny perception of the patently unfunny comedy that the average Nigerian audience finds hilariously funny.Īs in The Wedding Party, Ali Baba appeared not to have received the memo that his character, Chief Coker, is supposed to be a Millionaire (possibly Billionaire) oil magnate and not a caricature of his comic persona. Where The Wedding Party at least put in an effort to give some impressive breakout performances, Destination Dubai made no pretence about creating a level playing field of absolutely no stand out performance.

Continuing with the awe and shock that questions the supposed elitist status of some of the key characters in The Wedding Party, Nonso acts gob smacked by the opulence of the restaurant. The opening scene pretty much zooms from Lagos to London and lands us in Dubai where the couple is out to dinner in a swanky upscale restaurant. So, what do you with the sequel to a Nollywood movie about a society wedding and the shenanigans associated with it? You do what Nigerian elitist purveyors of society weddings do in real life to set themselves apart from the plebeians you make it a destination wedding! As in a real life destination wedding where the wedding is more about the destination than the relationship of the couple, pretty much from the get go, you get the sense that not much thought was deployed to flesh out the relationship between Nonso Onwuka and Deidre Winston or even a backstory perspective. Then, there is the fact that this is Nollywood where sequels are more the norm than the exception.

It even dethroned the off-putting one-unfunny-joke-pony-stretched-to-a-feature-movie length 30 days in Atlanta as the highest grossing Nigerian movie.

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