Casa de mi padre (2012)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 100
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 56
Thinly written and not as funny as it needs to be, Casa de mi Padre would have worked better as a fake trailer or short film; stretched to feature length, it wears out its welcome far too quickly.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 22
Thinly written and not as funny as it needs to be, Casa de mi Padre would have worked better as a fake trailer or short film; stretched to feature length, it wears out its welcome far too quickly.
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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 fiancée, 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
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Cast
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Will Ferrell
Armando, Armando ALvare... -
Diego Luna
Raul -
Pedro Armendariz Jr.
Miguel Ernesto -
Genesis Rodriguez
Sonia -
Efren Ramirez
Esteban -
Adrian Martinez
Manuel -
Gael García Bernal
Onza -
Manuel E. Urrego
Officer Blancarto -
Nick Offerman
DEA Agent Parker -
Jerry Collins
DEA Agent #2 -
Louis Carazo
Young Miguel Ernesto -
Sandra Echeverria
Miguel Ernesto's Wife -
Elijah Velarde
Young Armando -
Alejandro Patino
Hector -
Eduardo Ricard
Old Friend #1 -
Pedro Lopez
Old Friend #2 -
James Victor
Old Friend #3 -
William Marquez
Doctor -
Dan Haggerty
Himself -
José Luis "El Puma" Rodri...
El Puma/Wedding Singer -
Eric Leiderman
Band Member #1 -
Patty Guggenheim
Band Member #2 -
Robert Dassie
Band Member #3 -
Mariann Gavelo
Esmeralda -
Molly Shannon
Sheila -
Gayle Hooker
Margarite -
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Friend George -
Armando Guerrero
Father Guizman -
Mando Guerrero
Father Guizman
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All Critics (100) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (56) | DVD (2)
Odd, intermittently amusing but wholly unsatisfying, an oddball experiment that simply doesn't work.
Top CriticAs a low-budget independent not necessarily intended for a broad audience, Casa doesn't have to bow to the middle-of-the-road multiplex appeal that handcuffs many SNL-pedigreed films. That works to the film's great benefit.
I tend to be amused by Ferrell in most circumstances, and the things I like about him - his bizarre sensibilities hidden beneath a mainstream exterior, his unwavering sincerity regardless of his characters' absurdity - are on display here.
I regard Casa de Mi Padre as an interesting but failed experiment.
Ferrell is an hombre loco. Mi gusta.
A product as cheap, empty and worth of a good beating as a piñata.
Unfortunately for Casa de Mi Padre there's a very fine line between smart-stupid and slapdash-stupid.
[S]ubtle humor that slips under your radar instead of bashing you over the head is what makes Casa one of the more adventurous comedies in recent years...
Casa de mi Padre is Will Ferrell's weirdest film yet, paying complete homage to Spanish westerns while also becoming its own film.
Unfortunately for Casa de Mi Padre there's a very fine line between smart-stupid and slapdash-stupid.
After awhile Casa de mi Padre begins to play as a conceptual exercise rather than a legitimately funny movie in its own right.
Pretty much one long sketch painfully stretched to feature length - Casa de mi Padre would have been better served as a short film series on Ferrell's Funny or Die website.
How many superstars would devote themselves to a project this quixotic? Whether you get the joke that is Casa de Mi Padre or not, you've got to admire Ferrell. Clearly, he isn't only in it for the pesos.
In this bat-crazy Mexican telenovela, replete with flimsy scenery and fake horses, Ferrell's stilted Spanish delivery chimes perfectly with the stilted, soapy dialogue.
A spoof of Mexican Westerns and Latin American telenovelas, Casa de mi padre is a truly bizarre entry in Will Ferrell's filmography - a very broad, Spanish-language comedy that sends up a pair of genres few Anglophone viewers will have encountered.
No es cómico, Señor Ferrell.
An animatronic mountain lion proves to be the star of the show.
It's all a little undercooked, playing more like an extended version of a very funny trailer than an actual, full-bodied comedy.
Like a supermarket enchilada, it initially seems appealing but you quickly realise it lacks flavour.
It's a one-joke film and that's the joke.
Vámonos, amigos!, murmuró, y los vaqueros montó en la crepúsculo friscalatito...
The plot is genuinely clever, and there's a continual stream of knowing gags that'll keep fans of B-movies chuckling.
The script is disappointing and the film largely plays out like an extended comedy sketch that quickly wears out its welcome.
Often inspired but patchy overall, Ferrell's horse opera could have benefited from a sharper, even more out-there script.
A joyous, ramshackle celebration of sloppy filmmaking and cheapo production design.
Audience Reviews for Casa de mi padre
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Straight away the thought of subs almost puts you off really, this isn't a foreign epic where you look over that fact. The problem being this is suppose to be a parody of the soap opera genre, albeit Spanish/Latin American, and it really does feel like your watching a shitty soap opera.
So much so that it really is quite dull for most of the time, the subs don't help and the plot is damn thin. Personally I can't stand the whole Mexican/Spanish western concept so I dunno why I watched this really, probably because I didn't realize it was subs all the way through and I thought it would be more funny.
That's the other problem, the film isn't funny a tall. There are very few moments that made me smile, mainly the few bits which are clearly badly filmed with models or sets...filmed like that deliberately of course, spoof remember.
The finale with a reasonable mock shoot up is quite good fun, nothing outstanding, you could easily just watch that and forget the rest. Like many films from the 'SNL' team this idea would work much better as a sketch or simple trailer parody like Tarantino has made popular. As a full length film, even at 1h 20min, its just boring and annoyingly Spanish.
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- Armando: Let him die. He's missing a hand anyway.
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- Onza: Sonia, why are you sleeping with this dirty rancher?
- Armando: Stay away, or I'll beat you with these hands!
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- Miguel Ernesto: You 're just like your mother, a big heart but simple. You cannot help me , I need someone smart, and if you were smart you would know that you are dumb.
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- DEA Agent Parker: Do. You. Speak American?
- Armando ALvarez: No sir. I don't speak American.
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- Armando ALvarez: My woman, Miss Lopez, must love the land as I do.
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"Funniest movie you'll ever read."
Casa de mi Padre is a weird, eccentric, and messy film. I don't know exactly what the goal with this movie was. Was it to make us laugh? Because it doesn't seem like that's the intention. Sure there's some funny scenes, but this isn't what I'd call a laugh riot. Was it to entertain? I can't see too many people, especially the target audience for a Will Farrell movie, calling this movie entertaining. In other words, this movie exists, but for what reason, I have no idea. All in all though, it really wasn't that bad.
Armando Alvarez is a rancher on his fathers ranch. He is also the son who isn't well liked by his father because of a past accident(think Dewey Cox). His father is always calling him stupid and doesn't have much faith in Armando as a man. On the other hand, he loves his second son very much. It just so happens that he is a drug dealer, who has just entered the biggest dealers territory. Now there will have to be some sort of drug war.
As far as the movie is concerned; it's ridiculous. Stuffed animals, crappy 1930's landscape backdrops, and Will Farrell speaking Spanish the whole film. Still the movie has weird sense of likability coming from it. I didn't mind the movie, and I would actually say I even enjoyed it to a degree. Not enough to make me recommend this to anyone, but enough to say the short little hour and twenty minute running time wasn't a complete waste.
I would have to be led to believe that most people wouldn't like this film. I would also be led to believe that a good percentage of people would probably turn the film off before the twenty minute mark. As for me, it wasn't a hard movie to get through. It bores at times, and it meanders at times, but all in all it's hardly the worst thing ever.