Review: Astonishingly bad comedy not only is extremely clichéd, but is also completely laugh free.
This movie is about as juvenile as a comedy can get. In fact one of the film's main plot points is put into play by a long vomit joke. To some this would be an immediate turn off. However the comedy being immature is the least of its problems. The main problem is just how phoned in it is. Not a single joke is actually funny. Each one instead feels like a joke we have heard a million times, being told by someone who doesn't understand why it was funny in the first place. Not only does this movie go for the cheapest and easiest jokes possibly, but doing so it doesn't even get any cheap and easy laughs from the audience. Instead this movie is just going through the motions and even the biggest fans of immature comedies will find themselves having laughed very little by the time the movie is done.
This is a Mexican film, but the influence of Hollywood cinema can more than easily be felt. However rather than feeling like an homage to Hollywood movies, it simply takes all of their clichés. This movie takes clichés from underdog movies, romantic comedies and raunchy comedies. Anyone who has seen more than a couple Hollywood movies can tell you how each plot point will end up as soon as that plot point is announced. Rather than telling a fun story that happens to be clichéd, this movie dutifully and obviously follows each rule of these clichés adding nothing along the way. There seems to be no desire to actually have fun with these clichés instead they feel as cheap and easy as the comedy.
I don't except every comedy to be high art or thought provoking (after all I'm a Three Stooges fan), what I do except however is for one to be enjoyable. I want to laugh and have fun at a movie like this, but this movie is completely lacking in both laughs and fun.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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