Apart from Vijayakanth, who made a strong comeback with Vaanathai Pola and then Vallarasu, Satyaraj too had a good year in 2000. His Ennammaa Kannu was a surprise hit and a shot in the arm for the actor who was no longer a star to reckon with after his long string of flops. Knowing the habit in Tamil cinema of following trends, Looty was bound to happen. It attempts to give Satyaraj a similar, wise-cracking character but with a ridiculously silly story and cheap comedy, all it does is erase any gains Satyaraj may have made with Ennammaa Kannu.

Rasappa(Satyaraj) and Velappa(Vadivelu) have been thick friends since their younger days. Rasappa marries Geetha(Roja), who has personally experienced the cruelty of a stepmother who drove her own mother out of the house. When Rasappa finds a small baby in his car one day, the childless couple adopt it and raise it as their own. But Geetha continues to have her own doubts about Rasappa being the father of the baby. Her suspicions are confirmed when their son(Satyaraj) returns from abroad looking exactly like her husband and she decides to divorce him.

Infidelity is not really a funny issue and having picked that as the crux of his movie, which he has decided will be a comedy, the director is troubled throughout the movie. Most of the movie is based on Roja's doubts about Satyaraj's faithfulness which leads her as far as initiating divorce proceedings. But in order to let Satyaraj utter 'nakkal' lines and maintain the movie as a comedy, the director tries to lighten the heavy issue and it never works. Roja's frequent questions to her husband about the boy's genes illustrate this confusion the best. She struggles to hit the right note between seriousness and comedy and they become downright silly. The only places where the movie gets it right are when it goes for straight comedy as when Vadivelu suspects an affair between his wife and a cross-dressed Roja.

And it is not just the story that is badly thought out and executed. The conclusion of the whole mess is through one of the most silly but convoluted explanations in recent times. By introducing a third Satyaraj, the director throws timelines completely out of whack. Here again he tries introduce a solution that maintains the comic momentum but fails miserably due to the distasteful nature of the solution itself and the dislikeable character of Satyaraj. Things become more ridiculous with a climax that features a poorly-generated, special effects dinosaur and a virtual MGR helping out Satyaraj. He must be turning in his grave!

Vivek decisively proves that a comedian is only as good as the lines he is given. The actor, who has had an amazing hit ratio(as far as his comedy routines are considered) in his recent movies, struggles to raise laughs. His role as a distributor of pirated VCDs is ripe for comedy(as he proves with a couple of lines at various places) but he fails in generating even a few chuckles most of the time. His villainous intentions do not add any strength to his comedy. Vadivelu joins him but this has the effect of halving the laughs rather than doubling it. Vadivelu mistakenly taking tablets for constipation instead of Viagra is what passes(no pun intended!) for comedy and these sequences are cheap and vulgar. Vivek and Vadivelu also have a song for themselves.

Satyaraj looks jaded and without many good lines, his dialog delivery doesn't really do anything to improve the movie. Roja has some fun with her disguise as a man when she goes to work in Satyaraj's house. But it is not as impressive as all the hype made it out to be. Mumtaj comes and goes though her costumes in the duet with Satyaraj would put even 'Silk' Smitha to shame. Kalpana's unique dialog delivery makes for some funny lines. Visu is lost in the loud proceedings. Deva's songs fit the quality of the movie.