Quickie Review: Armando Alvarez ( Will Ferrell ) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico all of his life. A ranch that is undergoing some financial problems. When Armando's brother, Raul ( Diego Luna ), returns to the ranch a very rich man and engaged to be married to a very beautiful girl, Sonia ( Genesis Rodriguez ), it seems that everything will work-out just fine. But Raul's financial wealth is not so legit. And Raul's presence only puts him and his family at odds with the most powerful drug lord in the area, Onza ( Gael Garcia Bernal ).
Some people in the audience liked it. It didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending, though.
I really don't know what the makers of this movie were aiming for. Whether or not it is meant as a farce or as an insult to the Mexican Movie Industry is anyone's guess. But I didn't like this movie that much. It will probably appeal only to those of you with an unrefined taste in comedy. Wait for it to come out as a rental.
I liked the scene where Sonia tried to get up on a horse. And I liked the scene where Raul turned-off the radio when Armando stepped into the room.
There is a Bonus Scene during the Ending Credits and afterwards.
Here are the things that I found wrong in this movie: The dead man dragged behind the truck was so obviously a dummy. The horses that Armando and Sonia rode in the Close Shot were fake. I don't know why they used a mannequin butler, a mannequin wedding guest and a mannequin sex partner. A road scene leading to the bar and another scene leading to an encounter with the police and DEA agents were both one and the same, with an RV going in the opposite direction. What's with that wedding guest who just sat there smoking a cigarette? There was a Bad Edit sometime after the scene where the police officer and the DEA agent talked on the 'phone. This movie has many cheap props and SFX. Some of the scenes were actually done on a stage with obvious backdrops. How and why did the dead man end-up in the fountain ...?
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