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Movie review from www.thechronicniceguy .com


I have tried watching this movie three times in order to write a review, but I can't even make it past the first five minutes without beginning to dry heave. Well, this is my movie review based on the first ten minutes and the preview, which I unfortunately saw more than once.

If you want to know who has a severe cocaine addiction in Hollywood, just see who wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua. I mean, why else would they agree to make this piece of garbage. I think somewhere in the Book of Revelation, there is a verse about Armageddon being preceded by a movie that starts with a montage of a Chihuahua trying on outfits to the dance track "Wow wow wow." If it's not, St. John got it wrong. This opening scene accomplishes two things, it provides Al Qaeda more evidence that American culture is ruining humanity, and creates the rules of the world in which these dogs ad humans live. Th humans are too stupid to understand what the dogs are saying to each other, yet the dogs are able to understand the humans an themselves. Jamie Lee Curtis plays the main dog's owner, and despite she is an extremely wealthy business woman, her only concerns seems to be taking her dog to a dog clothing shop in Beverly Hills (please tell me this doesn't exist) and getting Pipe Perabo to dog sit for her. (By the way, Piper. Please come over and dog sit for me. I don't have a dog, but I'm sure we can think of something to do together. I can pay you in cocaine (not true, police who are reading this))

This movie is also one of the most racist children's movies I have ever seen (and unlike Song of the South, this has no good animation scenes or catchy songs). The main character is a WHITE Chihuahua (voiced by Drew Barrymore). Her love interest is a BROWN Chihuahua (voiced by George Lopez) who WORKS AS A GARDENER. This is as far as I've been able to get without either throwing a brick through my television set, clawing my eyes out like a modern day Oedipus (without the whole gross incest stuff), or starting to draw up plans to firebomb the houses of every film executive who greenlit this film. What I can discern happens in the rest of the movie, however, is:

1. There are is a LOT of ripping off of Lady and the Tramp. The rich girl dog running away with the dogs "from the wrong side of the tracks." (Unlike Lady and the tramp, the right side of the tracks seem to be white and wrong side seems to be hispanic.)

2. There are a lot of jokes about the way hispanic people speak, the stereotype that they have a lot of children, and other racist stereotypes that are perfect fr implanting the seeds of hatred in our youth.

3. There is a LOT of crappy dance music in this movie. So much, that it is unwatchable. In the tn minutes I saw I think there were four songs. I'm not entirely sure because I was about to drill a hole in my eardrum so I wouldn't have to hear the movie anymore.

All in all, in all of the thousands of movies I have seen, this is BY FAR the worst. (I haven't seen The Love Guru, yet though.) But as far as racist Chihuahua movies go, I'd have to put it in the top three,

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This title will be released on March 3, 2009.


pauloehlers said:
"I have tried watching this movie three times in order to write a review, but I can't even make it past the first five minutes without beginning to dry heave. Well, this is my movie review based on the first ten minutes and the preview, which I unfortunately saw more than once."

Assuming you didn't rent or buy the DVD because it is not yet available.

The more people I meet the more I love my dogs.
By the way My dogs could care less about skin/fur color.
My dogs could write a more fair review after 5 minutes of (actually) observing you (once).

Have a good day.

PS, pauloehlers If you ever do get to watch this gem pay attention to how it portrays hispanics as a loving, caring and family oriented people who are helpful and appriciative toward their neighbors. (And vice versa from their neighbors)
Not that it matters since you have already passed judment on (well I don't know what).

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I hate critics. Who doesn't? I mean suddenly some bum in front of a computer can open his fat trap and spew out criticism, which ALWAYS attack people, hurt their feelings, and which he/she has no background for ever spelling out in the first place. I assume you never have ever directed/starred in any movie, so I suggest you shut your fvcking mouth. You are entitled to an opinion, but don't be so freaking cynical, hateful, disrespectful, and an a**hole to people involved with this movie.

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how hippocritically ignorant can someone actually be, colours of skin are not black and white. and to read racism into having a white female dog is a person with deep racist issues. and the many dogs at the end had purpose and it wasnt racist.

we will never escape racism while there are still people like you around.

but i agree, terrible film but could have been more enjoyable if they replaced the dogs voices with barks.

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