Casa de mi Padre
Pantelion Films | Release Date: March 16, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
SalonAndrew O'HehirMar 16, 2012
Considered as a whole it's a wonderful and hilarious phenomenon, most of it is executed to Dadaist perfection. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMar 15, 2012
You expect the big joke in Casa de Mi Padre to involve Will Ferrell mangling the Spanish language. Instead, the movie is funny because of just how commendable the actor's Spanish is. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigMar 15, 2012
This very funny spoof of telenovelas and classic Mexican westerns is decidedly offbeat and absurdly daffy. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 15, 2012
Casa de Mi Padre is at its best (a relative term, mind you) when it's at its silliest and most surreal. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinMar 14, 2012
As 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. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMar 14, 2012
If 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. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 13, 2012
It'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." Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonMar 16, 2012
Is the result - a slapstick, bizarro melodrama where Ferrell plays the Mexican born and bred scion of a wealthy farmer - meant more for Spanish speakers or stoned and giggly Americans? It's a tough call. Read full review
65
NPRAndrew LapinMar 19, 2012
The film feels ultimately hollow, perhaps because mocking soap operas is the comic's equivalent of shooting fish tacos in a barrel. In fact, the concept for Casa de mi Padre seems born out of one too many tequila-infused evenings in the Funny or Die writers' room. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 15, 2012
Luckily, Ferrell is at his funniest being serious. Casa de Mi Padre, shot in 24 days for $6 million, is really an SNL-ish sketch stretched to feature length. But Ferrell is an hombre loco. Mi gusta. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMar 15, 2012
The fact that the entire film is in Spanish, and Ferrell plays a Mexican named Armando, are two of the tamest elements in the movie. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt MuellerJun 2, 2012
Grindhouse with giggles, this potboiler parody offers just enough to avoid being a curio – not least Ferrell at his straight-faced best. Arriba! Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 13, 2012
The oddest thing about the movie - and perhaps the asset that will tip it over into the plus column for you - is that it's a bona fide scuzz-Western. Read full review
60
Village VoiceNick PinkertonMar 13, 2012
The humor doesn't only target south of the border. Like any good genre product, Casa also smuggles in rude social criticism. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMar 12, 2012
This Spanish-lingo farce plays very much like an SNL sketch. The only problem is that it packs about as many laughs into its 85 minutes as a good skit does in eight or 10. Read full review
60
VarietyJustin ChangMar 12, 2012
A likable enough lark that rarely achieves outright hilarity. Read full review
55
MovielineMichelle OrangeMar 15, 2012
For a movie with a comedic premise this simple – essentially: can you believe we made a movie with a premise this simple? – Casa de Mi Padre can feel pretty exhausting. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenMar 16, 2012
The giddy laughs that ensue, though sometimes inspired, are too few and far between. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenMar 16, 2012
Really, Casa de mi Padre is a skit blown up to a feature flick, amusing for a while until its welcome wears out. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartMar 16, 2012
As a full-length feature, Casa is simply a funny concept that starts to go stale around the 10-minute mark. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesMar 15, 2012
If the project was intended to enlarge the comedian's audience, it may be a wash: for every prospective Ferrell fan who can't understand English, there must be an existing one who can't understand subtitles. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliMar 15, 2012
It's really strange, and it's really subtitled. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 15, 2012
A quick-sketch routine stretched - amusingly, absurdly, thinly - to feature length. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 15, 2012
More than anything Casa de mi Padre is an exercise - and to those who find it more clever than I do, a valid one - in tone-funny, as opposed to joke-funny. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 14, 2012
Teetering between folly and genius, this Will Ferrell comedy masquerading as a Mexican soap opera-cum-horse opera unfortunately levels off somewhere near the undistinguished center. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMar 14, 2012
The movie is only 84 minutes long, including credit cookies, but that is quite long enough. All the same, it's fitfully amusing and I have the sense that Spanish-speaking audiences will like it more than I did, although whether they'll be laughing with it or at it, I cannot say. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 15, 2012
It's a solid short film stretched to Silly Putty thinness. Read full review
30
SlateDana StevensMar 18, 2012
It's deeply committed to its own weird conceit, diminishing returns and all. Read full review
30
TimeMary PolsMar 15, 2012
Casa de mi Padre is flawed in that it wouldn't be particularly enticing in any language. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 15, 2012
With Casa de Mi Padre, it's often hard to tell the difference between when it's making fun of bad movies and when it's being one. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMar 15, 2012
It's an unfunny Spanish movie that worked best as a two-minute trailer. Read full review
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Slant MagazineDiego SemereneMar 12, 2012
You know a film isn't going to be considered high art when the guy to your left at the press screening is a reporter from Extra and the guy to your right lets out a loud "That's awesome, man" after each scene. Read full review
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