| CIC Video | Release Date: August 21, 1987 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Moving away from the gag-based comedy of his films with Chong, Marin has
discovered a richer humor of character and circumstance, and although old
habits surface long enough to permit unfortunate lapses in continuity and
consistency, he proves surprisingly adept at his new mode. [24 Aug 1987, p.C5]
Born in East L.A. is a real middle-of-the-roader as comedies go -- not hysterically funny, sort of laid back in pace, with a plot as substantial as the peso -- but its heart is as warm as an enchilada. [22 Aug 1987, p.B4]
Enormously good-natured - exactly the wrong tone for a comedy that needs all the rambunctious lunacy it can get. Instead, this story of an American mistakenly deported to Mexico as an illegal alien is amiable and plodding, the very last things you'd expect from Cheech, with or without Chong.
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In Born in East L.A., Marin plays it mostly for cheap laughs and only an occasional touch of pathos. In other words, he's taken the easy way out. And the script is so sketchy, the scenes so disconnected and the ideas so vacuous (even for Marin) that Born in East L.A. is in desperate need of a center it never finds in its 75 unfocused minutes. The film is a series of skits, blackouts and punchlines, but finished it's not.
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Moving away from the gag-based comedy of his films with Chong, Marin has
discovered a richer humor of character and circumstance, and although old
habits surface long enough to permit unfortunate lapses in continuity and
consistency, he proves surprisingly adept at his new mode. [24 Aug 1987, p.1D]
It comes across, however, as a 90-minute flirtation with a quarter of an idea, the gist of which barely impinges on the consciousness. [24 Aug 1987]
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