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This is feel-good filmmaking, to be sure, but the culture clash here is more than a meaningless vehicle for fizzy wish fulfillment. The not-unpleasant result is hearty Italian fare with the half-life of Chinese takeout.
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70Intent on offering viewers a good time yet manages to sneak in considerable substance in a disarming, even old-fashioned manner.
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63So desperately eager to please: Gaudreault doesn't offer much in the way of wit or originality, but he's determined to win us over with sheer enthusiasm.
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63No sophisticated dance, but it moves about with an open heart. And hey, it's at least as funny as that Greek thing.
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63Patterns itself after the Greek model -- that is, more ethnic humour with a contemporary twist.
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60Beneath the heavy accents, wild gesticulating, slaps to the head and garish flocked wallpaper, there's an awful lot of heart.
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60Lacks sparkle, and finally tips its gallery of colourful protagonists into the realm of caricature.
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60The broad comedy is somewhat strained and obvious, and the hyper-real atmosphere encourages the cast to slice the prosciutto a little thickly. But the film's sweet-natured ingenuousness proves reasonably contagious.
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50There are laughs in the movie, and a lot of good feeling, but it seems more interested in its Italian stereotypes than its gay insights.
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50Likable but relentlessly trivial.
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50You don't have to be gay or Italian or live in Canada to enjoy Mambo Italiano, but a tolerance for ethnic mugging helps.
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A coming-out comedy that mines every cliche of cloistered Italian culture. But like "Greek Wedding," Mambo has enough funny moments to save it.
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50Unless you think "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was the height of genius, there's little reason to sit though another version.
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50The "Big Fat Wedding" formula dictates a certain amount of ugly-duckling fantasy along with the ethnic scenery chewing.
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42More than painful to behold, it's simply insincere in a film determined to undermine gay stereotypes.
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Ethnic and sexual stereotypes receive equally clumsy treatment in this Canadian comedy.
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40More dispiriting than the caricatured Italian families is the sense that, by picture's end, the filmmakers have neutered Angelo, so that his sexual energy is dulled, made non-threatening -- the perfect son after all.
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40If Gaudreault's 90-minute pilot ever makes it to television, French-Canadians can look forward to their own Italian version of A.K.A. Pablo.
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Old annoying ethnic family stereotypes meet new annoying gay-relationship stereotypes in this candidate for "Kiss Me Guido's" heretofore uncontested niche.
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40As Angelo, Mr. Kirby has a boyish charm, which is probably the best that can be said for this film as well.
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38This film might have been daringly funny 10 years ago, even with its broadest elements intact. Now it's comfortable as old slippers and unthreatening as a sleeping kitten.
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33The script is inane, and though Ferri has some funny moments, the acting is annoying or hopelessly bland.
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If any further indication were needed of the fact that gay has gone mainstream, this flaccid farce provides definitive proof, for it's as forced and unfunny as subpar Sandra Dee.
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25Perfectly harmless but by no means cinematic. It is unapologetically vying for the same moviegoers that "Greek Wedding" connected with last summer.
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20Disappointing flop that is best left off your dance card.
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20Lacks that outrageous effrontery that might have socked it to its intended audience.