Village Voice

Adobo doesn't exoticize the culture so much as leaven it with a sense of ordinariness.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

An intimate, good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected.

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

Tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.

New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein

The film is reasonably entertaining, though it begins to drag two-thirds through, when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

Offers traditional cinematic gab about marital status, sexual orientation, nationality and degree of fulfillment.

New York Post

Marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

As the film loses its grip on its multiple stories, the title begins to suggest an overheated stew bubbling out of its pot. By the end of the film, the intersecting dramas and histrionic performances have spilled all over the floor, so to speak.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Though clearly well-intentioned, this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

The movie is stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed.

L.A. Weekly by Paul Malcolm

The film's failings are only highlighted by the fact that while, occasionally, we're granted real glimpses of interior lives, largely emanating from de Leon, Davao and Picache, those lives are never given the chance to take shape.