1. Kites is an aromatic, cinematic Indian mutton stew -- if that sounds different from usual movie fare, it is. It's a Bollywood mixture of romance, violence, action, music, and differing cultures and languages. Kites flutters and plummets.
2. To anyone versed in Bollywood conventions, it's a natural outgrowth of the genre, and a comically overwrought but still generally fun time.
3. a straight-to-video tale that somehow mysteriously managed to find its way to the silver screen.
4. Not even the incoherent mishmash of plot...can entirely dim the appeal of this match-up between a blue-eyed Punjabi and a blue-eyed Mexican of almost equal comeliness.
5. Often terrible, yet completely engrossing film from Indian director Anurag Basu.
6. A lush, lavish Bollywood-meets-Hollywood fantasy, available for viewing in both a shorter and longer version, courtesy of Brett Ratner.
7. The pulp is served thick, with so much sincerely purple passion it's disarming.
8. It's a film that proves the concept "overwrought" is the same in every language.
9. By the third act, you find the characters and story growing on you and the romance, despite the histrionics, moving.
10. The result is a lovers-on-the-lam blast of pure pulp escapism, so devoted to diversion that you probably wonâ(TM)t even notice the corn.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?
Thoroughly overwrought in true Bollywood fashion, Kites is deeply flawed -- and too effervescently charming to resist.