
Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna), shows up with his new fiancé, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out ... (Full plot summary below)
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Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna), shows up with his new fiancé, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).
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| Toronto StarPeter HowellIt's audacious, given the huge resistance of Americans to subtitled films. It's also a good idea. If only it were funnier. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark PfeifferAfter awhile Casa de mi Padre begins to play as a conceptual exercise rather than a legitimately funny movie in its own right. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaCasa de Mi Padre is at its best (a relative term, mind you) when it's at its silliest and most surreal. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinAs with "Black Dynamite," many of Casa De Mi Padre's sharpest, most inspired gags riff on the source material's ingratiatingly amateurish production values and exuberantly incompetent stylistic choices. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIf you take the film on its own terms, as a kind of Elvis movie dipped in guacamole, it's quirkily engrossing. Ferrell is a good straight actor for the same reason that he's an inspired comedian: He commits himself to every moment. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's a funny movie, although rarely is the humor of the loud, obnoxious kind we have come to associate with Ferrell. It's not unlike "Blazing Saddles." |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasHow strange is this movie? The scene in which Ferrell's character is visited by a talking white lion and escorted into a Fellini-esque dream sequence was the one time I felt I was in familiar Ferrell territory. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonThe humor doesn't only target south of the border. Like any good genre product, Casa also smuggles in rude social criticism. |
| Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFerrell hurls himself into the melodramatic, heavy-breathing telenovela style of acting. And surrounded by actors who know the genre and get the joke (Efren Ramirez from Napoleon Dynamite among them), this send-up works. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfRelatively tame when it comes to mindlessness, finding more joy in Armando's inability to roll a cigarette than the potential of his heroic posture. |