Let us just start with saying that The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is not meant for young, distracted teenagers or children, but 100 percent made for mature adults.

Main characters Sonny and Muriel, played by Dev Patel and Maggie Smith, are trying to acquire a hotel franchise from a company in California so they can open up another hotel in India because their first hotel, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, ended up being such a great success.

Patel is best known for his work in “Slum Dog Millionaire”, which won an Academy Award for The Best Motion Picture of the Year in 2009.  Smith is easily recognized as a cast member in “Downtown Abbey” and “Harry Potter” films.

The prequel, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, displayed how the hotel in India had come such a long way from what hotels use to be like in India.  The hotel’s success had taken off, and now the hotel owners want to open a brand new hotel.

Throughout the movie you witness the characters’ difficulties of trying to open a new hotel in India while continuing to successfully operate their first hotel.  The movie’s events jump from one difficult situation to another, and focus on the characters’ reactions to each situation.

The relationships that began in the prequel transfer over into this movie, and there are some very complicated and annoying situations that the residents get into at The Marigold Hotel.

For example, Douglas (Bill Nighy) is trying to win Evelyn’s (Judy Dench) affections, but she is very scared to become fully emerged in a real relationship with him.   For a teen it was hard to connect to these types of characters.

The overall experience of the movie did an average job of giving the audience many chuckles as long as you keep a bag of popcorn on nearby so you do not fall asleep.

The mature adult characters in the movie have more romantic drama in their life than a teenage girl, which is why this movie might be more popular among the mature adult moviegoers.