Carlos (Cheech Marin) failed in the show-biz and currently works as waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex (Emma Samms) and dumb footballer Bruce (Vernon Wells), who celebrate their engagement with her parents. Alex' father (Terence Cooper)is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée. But her father sees through the game...... (Full plot summary below)
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Carlos (Cheech Marin) failed in the show-biz and currently works as waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex (Emma Samms) and dumb footballer Bruce (Vernon Wells), who celebrate their engagement with her parents. Alex' father (Terence Cooper)is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée. But her father sees through the game...
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| User ReviewKevin QThis movie is funny but kinda cheezy in alot of ways but I would buy it |
| User ReviewJosh DVernon Wells is in this. He bullies Cheech Marin. Need I say more? |
| User ReviewAllison BThis movie is soo cheap but its funny as hell |
| User ReviewJohn Tmaybe 100000000000 times.. by the way film sucks. but I just like it. |
| User Reviewrebecca mWho would have thought that Cheech Marin and Emma Samms would do well together. I bought this one |
| User ReviewJo Ymy alltime fav cheech movie without chong.lol the movie was awesome. |
| User ReviewGabriel Mgreat movie cute girls good humor, sweet romance |
| User ReviewPrivate Uvery funny, if u like cheech and chong youll like this... |
| User ReviewWilliam CI like "Shrimp on the Barbie." I'm a big Emma Samms fan, and that's pretty much what initially attracted me to see this movie. Made during the big Australia interest in America after "Crocodile Dundee," the movie stars Cheech Marin with Samms as a guy who moves to Australia to start a new life and ends up trying to save a restaurant from going bankrupt. To get the money, he gets hired by Samms to prove her father's hypocrisy against her boyfriends so she can get married. Wildly let loose with the script, Marin tries to become a "boyfriend from hell," the movie's alternate title. Along the way, however, he can't seem shed his down-on-his-luck likable loser image, and even Emma's character changes from a frustrated snob to being a bit more wise for her ordeal. The charming plot seems to poke a lot of fun at the rich, proving it is a bit than a comedy. The storyline rolls to its end as if it were one of Aesop's fables with the villains getting their due, and everyone happy in the end. There are a few eccentrics along the way to remind you this is a comedy, Emma's horse-loving cousin being the funniest. This movie is one of the jems in the outer rim of Comedy Central's cavalcade of 90s movies, but it doesn't get quite as much of the respect it deserves. |
| User ReviewKeith RI dug it, but I think I did because I used to be a nutter for Emma Samms. |
