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80Considered as a whole it's a wonderful and hilarious phenomenon, most of it is executed to Dadaist perfection.
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Mar 15, 201280You expect the big joke in Casa de Mi Padre to involve Will Ferrell mangling the Spanish language. Instead, the movie is funny because of just how commendable the actor's Spanish is.
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75This very funny spoof of telenovelas and classic Mexican westerns is decidedly offbeat and absurdly daffy.
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75Casa de Mi Padre is at its best (a relative term, mind you) when it's at its silliest and most surreal.
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75As 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.
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75If 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.
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75It'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."
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70Is the result - a slapstick, bizarro melodrama where Ferrell plays the Mexican born and bred scion of a wealthy farmer - meant more for Spanish speakers or stoned and giggly Americans? It's a tough call.
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Mar 19, 201265The film feels ultimately hollow, perhaps because mocking soap operas is the comic's equivalent of shooting fish tacos in a barrel. In fact, the concept for Casa de mi Padre seems born out of one too many tequila-infused evenings in the Funny or Die writers' room.
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63Luckily, Ferrell is at his funniest being serious. Casa de Mi Padre, shot in 24 days for $6 million, is really an SNL-ish sketch stretched to feature length. But Ferrell is an hombre loco. Mi gusta.
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63The fact that the entire film is in Spanish, and Ferrell plays a Mexican named Armando, are two of the tamest elements in the movie.
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Jun 2, 201260Grindhouse with giggles, this potboiler parody offers just enough to avoid being a curio – not least Ferrell at his straight-faced best. Arriba!
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60The 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.
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60The humor doesn't only target south of the border. Like any good genre product, Casa also smuggles in rude social criticism.
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60This 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.
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60A likable enough lark that rarely achieves outright hilarity.
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55For a movie with a comedic premise this simple – essentially: can you believe we made a movie with a premise this simple? – Casa de Mi Padre can feel pretty exhausting.
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Mar 16, 201250The giddy laughs that ensue, though sometimes inspired, are too few and far between.
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50Really, Casa de mi Padre is a skit blown up to a feature flick, amusing for a while until its welcome wears out.
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Mar 16, 201250As a full-length feature, Casa is simply a funny concept that starts to go stale around the 10-minute mark.
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50If the project was intended to enlarge the comedian's audience, it may be a wash: for every prospective Ferrell fan who can't understand English, there must be an existing one who can't understand subtitles.
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50It's really strange, and it's really subtitled.
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50A quick-sketch routine stretched - amusingly, absurdly, thinly - to feature length.
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50More than anything Casa de mi Padre is an exercise - and to those who find it more clever than I do, a valid one - in tone-funny, as opposed to joke-funny.
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50Teetering between folly and genius, this Will Ferrell comedy masquerading as a Mexican soap opera-cum-horse opera unfortunately levels off somewhere near the undistinguished center.
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50The 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.
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38It's a solid short film stretched to Silly Putty thinness.
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30It's deeply committed to its own weird conceit, diminishing returns and all.
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30Casa de mi Padre is flawed in that it wouldn't be particularly enticing in any language.
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25With Casa de Mi Padre, it's often hard to tell the difference between when it's making fun of bad movies and when it's being one.
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20It's an unfunny Spanish movie that worked best as a two-minute trailer.
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0You know a film isn't going to be considered high art when the guy to your left at the press screening is a reporter from Extra and the guy to your right lets out a loud "That's awesome, man" after each scene.