So in the end, why was this movie made? It resembled a Latin telenovela (soap opera), with stereotyped acting by stereotyped players with similar characteristics and actions. Nothing new here.
Then, we have the clichés: beautiful Latin girls wanting to meet a "rich" man from another country, with the hopes he will have a nice house or apartment, a nice car, and money enough to pay for a maid to do the cleaning and the cooking. The hero in the movie, Matt, was just the ticket, except he didn't hire a maid for his new wife. Instead, she had to try to do all herself, which provoked a crisis that drove her away? More clichés and stereotypes, true ones, maybe, but why do I need to go to a movie for 1½ hours to see this? But wait, there's more! The girl's father a retired armed forces officer, wanting to use his gun on her cheating latino boyfriend (but they neglected to mention that most of these servicemen have their own mistresses and girlfriends too - I lived in Colombia and Venezuela for 30 years - I knew these well); the girl missing the big family wedding back home for having married in Miami in a civil ceremony; the dating agency touting beautiful Colombian girls from Cali (as if it is a secret that Cali has many strikingly beautiful women), and the white-eyed gringos flocking to date them and/or get them pregnant; the stupid girl going back home and believe her ex-cheating boyfriend had 'reformed', where everyone that has been in Latin America knows these stories very well - well, in short, this movie reminded me of something I know and saw, and didn't want to be reminded of again.
So again, why was this movie made? To show that if the guy loves the girl, he can compromise and live with her in her country? We know that! That being said, there isn't anything else worthwhile seeing except some pretty latinas, with what we experts now know as false beauties, all eye candy, but watch out for what's underneath.
A poorly written telenovela, because on Latin TV's you see better. One thing I'd like to know: why, if they wanted everything to be typical, did they not feature typical Colombian music, which is the cumbia and the salsa? No, they featured Andean music, not untraditional, but not the kind they listen to everyday. Only one song was a salsa. Weird. So I ask: what were they trying to prove? Make a movie more acceptable to foreign taste? If so, they succeeded, but for bad foreign taste.
Then, we have the clichés: beautiful Latin girls wanting to meet a "rich" man from another country, with the hopes he will have a nice house or apartment, a nice car, and money enough to pay for a maid to do the cleaning and the cooking. The hero in the movie, Matt, was just the ticket, except he didn't hire a maid for his new wife. Instead, she had to try to do all herself, which provoked a crisis that drove her away? More clichés and stereotypes, true ones, maybe, but why do I need to go to a movie for 1½ hours to see this? But wait, there's more! The girl's father a retired armed forces officer, wanting to use his gun on her cheating latino boyfriend (but they neglected to mention that most of these servicemen have their own mistresses and girlfriends too - I lived in Colombia and Venezuela for 30 years - I knew these well); the girl missing the big family wedding back home for having married in Miami in a civil ceremony; the dating agency touting beautiful Colombian girls from Cali (as if it is a secret that Cali has many strikingly beautiful women), and the white-eyed gringos flocking to date them and/or get them pregnant; the stupid girl going back home and believe her ex-cheating boyfriend had 'reformed', where everyone that has been in Latin America knows these stories very well - well, in short, this movie reminded me of something I know and saw, and didn't want to be reminded of again.
So again, why was this movie made? To show that if the guy loves the girl, he can compromise and live with her in her country? We know that! That being said, there isn't anything else worthwhile seeing except some pretty latinas, with what we experts now know as false beauties, all eye candy, but watch out for what's underneath.
A poorly written telenovela, because on Latin TV's you see better. One thing I'd like to know: why, if they wanted everything to be typical, did they not feature typical Colombian music, which is the cumbia and the salsa? No, they featured Andean music, not untraditional, but not the kind they listen to everyday. Only one song was a salsa. Weird. So I ask: what were they trying to prove? Make a movie more acceptable to foreign taste? If so, they succeeded, but for bad foreign taste.