Uses the seven days of shivah to launch a series of hilariously escalating confrontations, including one in which elderly men nearly come to blows over who's the more genuine Jew.
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VarietyRonnie Scheib
VarietyRonnie Scheib
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.
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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Village Voice
Village Voice
Kvetches its way through an insipid vision of cross-cultural conflict.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
All this story needs is a mariachi band to walk in on all the overwrought mourners. Oh, wait ... yep. There it is.