I am not a big fan of Mexican movies but sometimes there are amazing exceptions in every gender, from thriller to comedy, however, Mexico lack of history in Musical Comedy made this film absolutely horrible. It was intended to be a musical with a tribute to one of the most famous and iconic singers of the last decades called Juan Gabriel (A terrible, terrible try to mimic what Mamma Mia made), trying to make all the songs match into a story except that in this case the story(and the way to try the match the songs)sucks. The story is completely incoherent, bad written, the characters are plane, boring and incredibly stupid and not in farcical way, just horribly designed. The songs don't match the story at all and they seem to appear in a forced way most of the times and to make it worse the "new versions" of iconic songs of the Mexican culture are a disgrace. Instead of giving them a modern twist they just destroyed them. The choreography of each tune seem to not even have had enough rehearsals and obviously the actors are not professional dancers (in my opinion if they are aspiring to make a musical, then the cast should at the very least have included some professional dancers): Lack of coordination, terrible moves, and on and on. And the way the story goes on is absolutely unbelievable. Supposedly some of the characters are rich but they have an old van and it seems the production team was too busy to notice that, the prices they mention of the designer clothes they have is totally inaccurate (as well as the collections, and I need to point this out because although seems irrelevant this information has importance for the story), and to make it (still) worse, the movie is the typical paradigm that has always appeared in Mexican soap operas, movies and even books where the rich ones are bad, selfish and stupid and the poor ones are good, innocent and victims of circumstances. I would have asked for the time of my life I spent watching it back, but at least it gave me enough annoyance to write this review.
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Pity for the effort - no comedy and no musical either
mykmad10 October 2015
While trying to be at the same time a comedy and a musical, it fails on both counts. The story makes no sense, does not become believable for a moment and keeps the viewer away, unengaged because of that. To add to the merry, it is badly written (trying to avoid to call it just awful). The film fails to be even a bit funny. No humour whatsoever that would justify calling it "irresistible musical comedy".
Songs and story are badly matched. Some of the songs are good if isolated, but the mismatch with the story does not help to enjoy them, quite the contrary, they become a source of irritation.
The story, together with the different side-plots, is just bad and full of dated clichés, of the sort of "the rich are very bad/stupid/heartless/boring and the poor are very good/sharp/sensitive/interesting".
The actors come out as shallow as the story they are working in.
However, there is some cute dancing even if the choreography in general is amateurish and would have benefited from some professionals thrown in.
A pity, because Mexico used to have in the past good musical films/comedies.
Songs and story are badly matched. Some of the songs are good if isolated, but the mismatch with the story does not help to enjoy them, quite the contrary, they become a source of irritation.
The story, together with the different side-plots, is just bad and full of dated clichés, of the sort of "the rich are very bad/stupid/heartless/boring and the poor are very good/sharp/sensitive/interesting".
The actors come out as shallow as the story they are working in.
However, there is some cute dancing even if the choreography in general is amateurish and would have benefited from some professionals thrown in.
A pity, because Mexico used to have in the past good musical films/comedies.
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