On the other hand, there is nothing to be done with the gentle adolescent girl (Saoirse Ronan) who joins the travelers and remains so miraculously unbothered by this band of brothers that she transforms into their patron saint.
What's best about Ms. Reeves is what's best about so many skilled high-octane performers: that she respects the audience enough to give them well-wrought music, that she transforms self-regard into generosity.
If the song is about the nature of love, it's called "What Love Is," and the accompanying words often sound like a transcription of Blige thinking out loud: thoughts that she transforms into lyrics simply by singing them — "Let 'em get mad, they gonna hate anyway.
Anupama Chopra of Hindustan Times felt that Chopra's performance helped empower the film, and CNN-IBN's Rajeev Masand wrote that "she transforms herself physically, and also skillfully conveys both the rage and vulnerability that the part required".
His efforts are not uniformly successful; at one point, the goddess is so enraged by Thoth's words that she transforms from a relatively benign cat into a fire-breathing lioness, making Thoth jump.
