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United States, Mexico · 2012
1h 24m
Director Matt Piedmont
Starring Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal, Génesis Rodríguez, Diego Luna
Genre Comedy, Western
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Armando works at his father's ranch, which faces financial trouble, while his brother Raul has found far more success. However, Armando becomes interested in Raul's fiancée just as Raul's drug connections begin to catch up with him, and with the family, in this telenovela-style Spanish-language comedy.
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
You know a film isn't going to be considered high art when the guy to your left at the press screening is a reporter from Extra and the guy to your right lets out a loud "That's awesome, man" after each scene.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
It's a funny movie, although rarely is the humor of the loud, obnoxious kind we have come to associate with Ferrell. It's not unlike "Blazing Saddles."
The oddest thing about the movie - and perhaps the asset that will tip it over into the plus column for you - is that it's a bona fide scuzz-Western.
A likable enough lark that rarely achieves outright hilarity.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Teetering between folly and genius, this Will Ferrell comedy masquerading as a Mexican soap opera-cum-horse opera unfortunately levels off somewhere near the undistinguished center.
As with "Black Dynamite," many of Casa De Mi Padre's sharpest, most inspired gags riff on the source material's ingratiatingly amateurish production values and exuberantly incompetent stylistic choices.
Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton
The humor doesn't only target south of the border. Like any good genre product, Casa also smuggles in rude social criticism.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
If you take the film on its own terms, as a kind of Elvis movie dipped in guacamole, it's quirkily engrossing. Ferrell is a good straight actor for the same reason that he's an inspired comedian: He commits himself to every moment.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The movie is only 84 minutes long, including credit cookies, but that is quite long enough. All the same, it's fitfully amusing and I have the sense that Spanish-speaking audiences will like it more than I did, although whether they'll be laughing with it or at it, I cannot say.
The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy
This Spanish-lingo farce plays very much like an SNL sketch. The only problem is that it packs about as many laughs into its 85 minutes as a good skit does in eight or 10.
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