Michael's Movie Grade: D-
A bland and overly cliché musical film from Mexico.
To say that this movie is over the top and soap opera-ish is an understatement. This film may be based off a TV soap opera, but even with this there is a certain limit to this kind of soap opera like storylines, that this movie definitely passes. There are so many over the top and overly convenient soap opera-ish turns in this story, that it is hard to have any emotional connection to anything that happens. This could work if the movie was played in a tongue in cheek manner, but instead, we are actually supposed to take this somewhat seriously. That proves to be impossible to do. Making this even worse is the characters here. They are very bland and have little personality outside of one or two character traits. Because of this the characters feel much more like story devices than actual people. We never feel these characters are real and therefore we never feel any emotional connection to them at all. This leaves one with little interest whenever there is a scene that is supposed to get an emotional response out of us. The storyline here is also as cliché as possible and has every soap opera cliché in the book. This makes it so anyone who has ever seen a movie knows exactly how it will end.
The only good things I can say about this movie is that I actually liked some of the songs and there were one or two jokes that got a small chuckle. Other than that though this movie was a waste of time.
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