This bit of fluff is a great way to spend a couple of rainy hours while you're also doing something else... computer work, your stationary bike, or the lighter sections of your Sunday paper.
The attraction is in the three leads - Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, and Steve Zahn. All of whom somehow avoid the sort of mugging that all have been guilty of at one time or another. Or perhaps Luc Besson's Zorro-esquish/Two Marias-ey script is so silly that whatever mugging they do seems within the acceptable range. Whatever the reason, they are all three very engaging and sweetly funny and their interactions, when they finally start, move the movie along nicely.
However you approach it, this viewing experience is far superior to Sahara, the other time Zahn and Cruz appeared together... McConaughey's absence makes the heart grow fonder.
The attraction is in the three leads - Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, and Steve Zahn. All of whom somehow avoid the sort of mugging that all have been guilty of at one time or another. Or perhaps Luc Besson's Zorro-esquish/Two Marias-ey script is so silly that whatever mugging they do seems within the acceptable range. Whatever the reason, they are all three very engaging and sweetly funny and their interactions, when they finally start, move the movie along nicely.
However you approach it, this viewing experience is far superior to Sahara, the other time Zahn and Cruz appeared together... McConaughey's absence makes the heart grow fonder.