When the NY Times reviewed this movie when it hit the Big Screens back in Jan 2011, they hated the title. Funny that, cos it's the only thing I actually liked about it! Especially as it so neatly sums up my very worse nightmare scenario for my own future. LOL
The plot of this trite comedy is (very very loosely) based on Jane Austin’s Sense & Sensibility, but when the father’s death forces Nora and Mary Dominguez to leave the family mansion, they don’t land up in an English country cottage but into their Aunt’s house/illegal sewing workshop in East L.A. ‘the hood’.
Unlike nearly all the other movies I sit through, this one really had no redeeming features at all. From the unfortunate casting with the two actresses playing the sisters having absolutely no connecting factor at all, to a plot full of ethnic stereotypes that were saddled with a grossly unfunny script etc.
It’s the film making debut of Angel Gracia who evidently usually makes music videos and commercials, and maybe he should have made this just 3 minutes long too.
Lesson learnt? Having a silly cute title is not enough reason to see a movie. Stick to Emma Thompson’s Oscar winning original. Or better still put the $10 admission money towards a new Prada Bag!
