First of all, I've been a fan of Forest Whitaker for years. Please someone tell me how an Oscar winning actor stars in tripe like this. America Ferrera is one of the worst actresses out there, the plot was lame, acting was atrocious, and the actually wedding just didn't make sense. Who brings a damn goat to a wedding? What were the producers thinking when they made this sh*t.
"Guns don't kill people..People kill people"
There was a nice idea in here somewhere. It seems like there could have been a story about class differences rather than racial. Blacks and Hispanics aren't always sympatico but their conflict isn't big enough or funny enough to exploit.
This crappy movie was just so UNFUNNY. Whitaker is an amazing actor but if the character and the jokes don't work, even an Oscar-worthy actor like Whitaker won't make it work. Mencia, on the other hand, can be funny--as a comedian. As an actor in this movie, he was just DULL, BoRING, FLAT, and unfunny.
The two leads are okay. Not an Ugly Betty fan but having grown up with people who look like America Ferrara, i can't help but find her cute. Unfortunately, neither she nor the guy playing the Sidney Poitier/Guess Who's Coming to Dinner/highly-educated black doctor role had no personalities, no flaws. They were just there. They didn't really have a conflct either since their fathers were insignificant goofballs.
Feel sorry for people who sat thru this in the theater. Poor script, uninspired direction, characters with nothing to do. To quote Ebert, "awkward for the actors, and contrived from beginning to end."
When will a high-caliber director and a smart screenwriter create a comedy for minority characters that works? the movie Hitch worked. Why couldn't this work?
I was coming to say the same thing. So, thank you for saving me the trouble.
Million Dollar Baby Academy Award® Winner for Best Picture of 2004