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Kvetches its way through an insipid vision of cross-cultural conflict.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
All this story needs is a mariachi band to walk in on all the overwrought mourners. Oh, wait ... yep. There it is.
50
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Any comedy that can combine death, abortion, Jewish ritual and a mariachi band without curdling into complete lunacy deserves a modicum of respect. In the case of My Mexican Shivah, more would be pushing it.
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Boring movie.
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Culture shock often proves the stuff of comedy, but the sight of a silver-studded, sombrero-topped mariachi band breaking into a rousing rendition of "Hava Nagila" transports diversity into the realm of the surreal.