I went in with the idea that, as Zoo put it, this is a "ghetto fable," and as a fable I was able to accept the coincidences and plot conveniences because the film wasn't necessarily going for realism (despite how real the setting looked). And I don't know why people are complaining about the "sappy" ending. As previously stated, it's a fable -- it's supposed to have that kind of joyous, tied-in-a-bow ending. I don't see how it's any less sappy than "Wall-E," anyway. (*SPOILER* Although, if I was going to change anything, I wouldn't have had Jamal win the million. He didn't seem to care about the money, only trying to find Latika -- she was his destiny, so he didn't really NEED to win to give us the satisfying ending.)

And I actually thought the Bollywood dance sequence under the credits was strangely bad-ass.