80
The incredible adventures pile up unrelentingly, with no inflection, no downtime, and each new space is a set decorator's hallucination, as brightly colored as a candy store on acid.
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50
There's no gold dust to be found here, just an awful lot of stick-on glitter.
63
The premise is so sad it's impossible to chuckle at the often heavy-handed humor.
90
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Has the same kind of humor, charm and sensuality that made "Like Water for Chocolate" the most popular foreign-language film until "Life Is Beautiful" came along.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
A brightly colored, picaresque adventure that's equal parts telenovela melodrama and pop-magic realism.
50
A Mexican film that reaches for a very weird and risky tone, and, I think, fails.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
It's remarkably bright, funny and sweet for a film that wades through so much sleaze, though it can't escape all of the weirdness it worms through.