Casa De Mi Padre Review

                                             The spoof movie is the hardest type of film to review. This is because the spoof movie does not follow characters or a plot, but rather it tells a series of jokes that come fast and furious. Airplane! was the primary example of this, while films like Disaster Movie and Date Movie have failed to have even one laugh. Now we have Casa De Mi Padre, or House Of My Father. It stars Will Ferrell as Armando Alvarez, a "dirty rancher" whose brother, Raul (Diego Luna) is going to married to the very beautiful Sonia Lopez (Genesis Rodriguez). This is as much as I can explain for a plot. Oh yeah, and Gael Garcia Bernal plays a drug dealer.

                                                While the film has many honest, hearty laughs, they are at the beginning and the end, and somewhat in the middle. I did not laugh consistently, and with a movie like this, you need to make the audience do so in order to be successful. Ferrell speaking Spanish was funny at first, but then it became normal, and was therefore no longer funny. Efren Ramirez shows up as one of Armando's friends, and is pretty funny. The film does not succeed, although there are a lot of funny moments. In fact, there is one of the funniest scenes in movie history at the very beginning. However, this quickly gets bogged down by dry patches that make the movie seem like it could had been so much more.

                                                The whole cast is solid,  the low budget look surprisingly cool, and the laughs too few and far between. Casa De Mi Padre will disappoint most Will Ferrell fans as it did me, but I feel like some will enjoy it more than I did.

(2 and 1/2 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated R for bloody violence, language, some sexual content, and drug use)