Chasing Papi | | Cast : | Roselyn Sanchez, Sofía Vergara, Jaci Velasquez, Eduardo Verástegui | | Director : | Linda Mendoza | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 16, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | February 03, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 29, 2005 | | Summary | Roselyn and Sofia sizzle | Content
 | This is an entertaining piece of fluff. Tomas (Eduardo Verastugi) and his shinanigans land him in hot water with 3 different women from 3 different cities. Roselyn Sanchez and Sofia Vergara are smokin' red hot in this movie while Jaci Velasquez provides the wittiness. The plot with the chop shop guys makes this movie all the more wild. A very funny, very energetic movie. And a pleasant surprise I might add. An underdog of a movie that you'll enjoy! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 08, 2005 | | Summary | Its a fun movie | Content
| But then as a man, I really enjoy seeing the three actresses {Jaci Velasquez, Roselyn Sanchez, and SofÃa Vergara}. If you detach logic for a while and just want some light comedy with some latina beauties. Reminds me of Charlies Angels but with less crap and a dash of spice. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 03, 2005 | | Summary | Poorly Written Script with Three Good Leading Ladies | Content
| Though too fluffy and light-weight, 'Chasing Papi' is not as awful as some opinions might suggest. Produced by none other than 20th Century Fox, one of the major Hollywood studios, it has enough budget to create the colorful looks and joyful soundtracks. Sadly, the film just doesn't know the right way to use three surprisingly refreshing Latina-American actresses, and that's the real problem.
Well, but I think the opening chapters are awfully bumpy. Think about this. Thomas is dating three women at the same time; a Chicago laywer wearing glasses, a street-smart Miani cocktail waitress, and a rich, sheltered, spoiled daughter in New York. Normally, this kind of guy cheating women, well-meaning as he thinks he is, is called Romeo, and I suppose most women would despise him, but because this Romeo, or Thomas, is so irresistible, the three women cannot stop thinking about the possibility that SHE is the only one meant for him. I wanna ask whoever gave the green light to this project -- are you living in the 21st century?
But to be fair, that is only the introduction, and wait a while. The real point of the film is the ad-hoc coalition to get over the embarrassing situation (like Thomas fainting and an FBI agent watching it!), which eventually develops to the friendship between them through joining in a beauty pagent or dacing on the stage.
The film uses up its tricks pretty early on, and funny moments come very sporadically. In fact, the characters, stories, and gags are all too familiar today, and look exactly dead art, like pie-throwing. With short running time of 80 minutes, the film still looks padded out, and I didn't talk about the 'dream' sequences (including that of a chihuahua) that have nothing to do with the story.
As I said, the three leading ladies Roselyn Sanchez, Sofia Vergara, and Jaci Velasquez do act with gusto, and they did admirable job for their characters always remain likeable. And I like Roselyn Sanchez, who has curiously attractive charms like Sandra Bullock, and was the only good thing in terrible film 'Boat Trip.' I just don't understand why Hollywood must keep on wasting them in this awful films again and again.
Innocuous, fluffy, but that's not the problem. The problem is that they could think of only hackneyed ideas to fill the 80 minutes. And they used as many as four writers. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 02, 2005 | | Summary | Fun Comedy | Content
| I expected this movie to be awful, yet I was pleasantly suprised to find it fairly entertaining. It definitely doesn't deserve four or five stars because the plot is bad and it's really corny. I still enjoyed it, though. It had it's funny moments and since I was in the mood for this kind of comedy, I enjoyed myself. I mainly watched it to see Jaci Velasquez act (she is one of my favorite Christian singers), and was happy to see she does have acting talent. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 23, 2004 | | Summary | I can't believe some of these negative reviews. | Content
| What's the matter with some of you people? This was simply just a fun film to watch. No seriously intricate story, and no offensive content. It is truly a latina "babefest", and who wouldn't enjoy that? Just like the director Linda Mendoza said: Her intention was to make a film simular to the typical american comedies of the sixties, where everybody looks good all the time, some scene-linking animation thrown in, and some split screen scenes where two people are talking to each other (on the phone) at the same time. I truly appreciate her intentions on how she made this film. I hope Linda Mendoza does another film with the same chemistry.
Roselyn Sanchez, Sofia Vergara, Jaci Velasquez, Lisa Vidal, and various latina unknowns make this film long-lasting, fun-filled, eye candy!
If gorgeous women and slapstick comedy doesn't interest you, then perhaps you should avoid this film. Maybe you should stick to watching "Star Trek" or watching long-winded, grainy, black & white World War II documentaries or what ever else it is that you enjoy that makes you different from normal people who know how to laugh and enjoy the simple things in life.
Films like this promote "libido awareness", and I'm all for that! You know, I still have a pulse. I'm not dead yet! |
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