POSITIVES
It's a conventional sitcom type premise, that has heart and sweetness and all, but sometimes that's all you need to pass the time.
Eugenio Derbez is great as our lead protagonist Antonio Flores, and is just the guy you want to root for here. A lot of the ensemble are generally solid in their roles as well, from Carmen Salinas, Samara Weaving, Amaury Nolasco, Noemi Gonzalez, Armando Hernandez, Carlos Santos, Max Greenfield, Ji Yong Lee, plus many more.
Appreciated how this movie was unafraid to have their POC characters actually speak their own language (with English closed captions) a lot of the time. A huge appeal of this movie is how it handles its POC characters.
Narrative moves at a careful pace, but peppers in a lot of noteworthy scenes that gives this movie life.
The commentaries and themes presented aren't anything you haven’t heard before, but they are still worth repeating, which this movie does a good job at doing.
NEGATIVES
You've seen this kind of movie before. It doesn’t really add too much new to this kind of story. Not to mention that this is already a remake as it is.
There are predictably stupid stuff that do happen. Prepare to roll your eyes.
Conclusion takes way too many convenient short cuts with the plot than it probably should have.
It takes quite a while to warm up to the character of Olivia.
Movie should have had a shorter run time. It drags on in parts.
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