Mucho basura (trash) and ethnic slur

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2006)

Sweet? Silly? Let's try for unjustifiable, trashy, and culturally ignorant. Maybe it is because the movie's sensibilities are so out of focus that I didn't get it? I attended this movie with a ten-, fourteen-, and seventeen-year old set of minors, and I expected the slap-sticky humor and crude laugh prompts. But I did not expect the story line, scene content and characterizations to reach this level of ethnic slurring. It betrays the ignorance of the writers/producers/director. It serves only to perpetuate the stereotyping and ethnic slurs that have been directed against Mexicans for as long as I can remember. Jack Black's accent is insulting, not funny. I am less of an admirer of his work after sitting through this awful waste of money, so typical of too many Hollywood miscreations. With all the ways there are to make us laugh, why this group of lost boys has put all this energy into this film is beyond me. That it is doing so well at the box is an even sadder testimony. Do yourself a favor: don't bother. It's basura: trash.