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63The intended satire doesn't deliver the kind of punch you may expect, but it nevertheless poses many what-ifs.
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Never really moves beyond its premise. It never takes us to a place of real understanding.
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50For the first hour director Arau and his co-writer and wife, actress Arizmendi, negotiate the story's tricky mix of comedy, social satire and science fiction with surprising aplomb.
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50Using humor to make a serious point, Arau suggests that without the millions of Hispanics...life in the Golden State would screech to a halt.
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40Plenty of salient points to make in this satirical cautionary tale, there's still not enough to sustain the expanded running time.
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40Darkly amusing idea delivers an early salvo that fades as the film swings across a range of styles and tones director Sergio Arau gamely tries to corral. Even at its half-realized level, pic will anger some as it amuses others.
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30A terrific premise is mangled to a pulp, then beaten to death in this forced mockumentary.
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Much of the humor is overly familiar, and the broader elements feel strained when it veers toward melodrama in its final third.
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25Approach is too heavy-handed to have much effect. Rod Serling probably could have turned the premise into an enjoyable episode of "The Twilight Zone."
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Doesn't know what it wants to be: either a goofball satire or a heavy-handed social-message movie.
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20Its narrative conceit will entertain for a while, but eventually you will long to disappear with the rest of the Mexicans.
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TonyB.1This is a good idea gone horribly bad!