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A broad, shrill comedy that plays like a sitcom.
All Critics (75) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (51) | DVD (5)
The comic possibilities of Mambo Italiano are mind-boggling. The reality is less so. Jan 22, 2019 | Full Review…
The comic possibilities of Mambo Italiano are mind-boggling. The reality is less so.
Sheila Norman-Culp
There are laughs in the movie, and a lot of good feeling, but it seems more interested in its Italian stereotypes than its gay insights, and it must be said there is absolutely no feeling that Angelo and Nino are really lovers. Oct 17, 2003 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
There are laughs in the movie, and a lot of good feeling, but it seems more interested in its Italian stereotypes than its gay insights, and it must be said there is absolutely no feeling that Angelo and Nino are really lovers.
Roger Ebert
It's like watching a spaghetti-sauce commercial stretched out to feature-film length. Oct 16, 2003 | Rating: 1/5
It's like watching a spaghetti-sauce commercial stretched out to feature-film length.
Randy Cordova
Lacks that outrageous effrontery that might have socked it to its intended audience. Oct 3, 2003
Lacks that outrageous effrontery that might have socked it to its intended audience.
Desson Thomson
Mambo Italiano is likely to provoke the same urges in the movie house that poor Nino experiences after a dinner at the noisy Barberini compound -- an overwhelming desire to flee. Oct 3, 2003 | Rating: 2/4
Mambo Italiano is likely to provoke the same urges in the movie house that poor Nino experiences after a dinner at the noisy Barberini compound -- an overwhelming desire to flee.
Steven Rea
Mambo Italiano is no sophisticated dance, but it moves about with an open heart. And hey, it's at least as funny as that Greek thing. Oct 3, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Mambo Italiano is no sophisticated dance, but it moves about with an open heart. And hey, it's at least as funny as that Greek thing.
Janice Page
Every time Mambo Italiano seems headed for a plunge into the ethnic cartoon swamp, a refreshingly, unexpected element throws up a roadblock and keeps the movie on solid emotional ground. Nov 29, 2003 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Every time Mambo Italiano seems headed for a plunge into the ethnic cartoon swamp, a refreshingly, unexpected element throws up a roadblock and keeps the movie on solid emotional ground.
Carol Cling
Seems set on making fun of Italians in the most heavy-handed manner possible. Nov 14, 2003 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Seems set on making fun of Italians in the most heavy-handed manner possible.
Jeff Vice
The problem with screenwriter and director Émile Gaudreault's effort is that he turns his Canadian-Italian family into a cartoon. Nov 13, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The problem with screenwriter and director Émile Gaudreault's effort is that he turns his Canadian-Italian family into a cartoon.
Laura Kelly
The film has a few laughs, but none of the sweetness of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Nov 13, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The film has a few laughs, but none of the sweetness of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Jeffrey Bruner
Where are the GoodFellas when we really need them? Nov 11, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/4
Where are the GoodFellas when we really need them?
Matt Brunson
Mama treats her son like a baby, even though he's almost 30! Angelo's family is gossipy! Straights don't understand gay culture! Da-DUM. Sheesh. Nov 7, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Mama treats her son like a baby, even though he's almost 30! Angelo's family is gossipy! Straights don't understand gay culture! Da-DUM. Sheesh.
Phil Villarreal
Spaghetti to the max!!! It's like watching a Italian soap opera... Nothing really ground breaking happened in the film
Super Reviewer
Mambo Italiano is the story of an Italian immigrant coming out to his old school Italian family. There are some really hysterical lines in this movie, but in general I found the whole thing to have been done. Putting an Italian twist on it, was in theory a good idea, but the whole film just comes across as cliché. The gay stereotypes are outdated and the other F word is thrown around way too much. If you're looking for an original "gay" comedy, watch Sascha Baron Cohen's Bruno, that was a great movie. Mambo Italiano is just a fast moving, sexist nightmare, with the occasional great one liner.
Great!
Just sort of sappy
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