Synopsis
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
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Cast
- Will FerrellArmando Alvarez
- Mariann GaveloEsmeralda
- Molly ShannonSheila
- Gael García BernalOnza
- Nick OffermanAgent Parker
- Efren RamirezEsteban
- Génesis RodríguezSonia
- Diego LunaRaul
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr.Miguel Ernesto Alvarez
- Adrian MartinezManuel
Recommendations
- 75
ReelViews
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." - 75
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 75
The A.V. Club
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. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 60
Variety
A likable enough lark that rarely achieves outright hilarity. - 60
Village Voice
The humor doesn't only target south of the border. Like any good genre product, Casa also smuggles in rude social criticism. - 60
Time Out
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. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
