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"A cute movie for little kids though anyone from the two digit age group will get bored easily...and yes, the trailer lied." --from the review ------------- Sidebar :: ------------- No Sidebar Comments For This Review. Yet...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
A Review by TechtiteIf there was ever a movie where an over-the-top trailer jumped the shark, it's the trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Many a child probably saw this trailer demanding to see this movie, while shouting the trailer's battle cry: "Chihuahua! Chihuahua! Chihuahua!" Too bad this is not only a case where the trailer lied: it's quite possible that the trailer was made by someone who had no idea what the movie was about at all.Let's "review" the trailer to give you an idea of what I mean. The narrative says that the hero of the tale is Papi, an ancient Mexican warrior...who happens to be a Chihuahua. Suddenly we see Papi in his natural habitat; an ancient Mexican city populated entirely by Chihuahuas: dancing Chihuahuas, singing Chihuahuas, and playing Chihuahuas, as they all perform this toe-tapping musical number. It's a hard trailer to not really love. If you went to this movie expecting something more, it's because of this trailer. It's just a shame that saying "the movie is something less" would be understating the matter. Simply put: this isn't the movie you'd expect from the film trailer. For one thing "Papi" is seen in as little as 10 minutes of the entire movie. The trailer's colorful "kingdom" of Chihuahuas is seen even less. This is, instead, a simpler tale of a spoiled Chihuahua named Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore) whose owner is a rich fashion designer named Viv (Jamie Lee Curtis). For reasons that make sense only in a movie like this, Viv must go on vacation and decides to leave her beloved dog in the hands of a ditsy doodle named Rachel (Piper Perabo), who goes on a vacation in Mexico, and loses Chloe. Chloe must now trek through Mexico in an attempt to get home. Mind you: a spoiled dog such as Chloe would have any number of ways to return home, though the story comes up with reasons for her to remain "lost" which are complete cornball. While she would seemingly try to return to the hotel on her own, she immediately gets kidnapped by an underground dog fighting ring. Why the dog fighting ring would choose a Chihuahua to fight a Rottweiler is one of many mysteries best left unasked in this movie. Once she inexplicably escapes, you might wonder why she doesn't get found by anyone who can simply look at her license tag. Yet for some reason, her collar is stolen by a mouse (yes, seriously). Do I really have to continue summarizing this inane story? Mind you; this isn't from a critic expecting something Shakespearean here. I was totally expecting a happy, childish, whimsical tale of talking dogs as they sing and dance to the song from the trailer: "Chihuahua! Chihuahua! Chihuahua!" Yet while that in itself would be a simple movie, this movie can't even handle a simple story like that right. The majority of the movie is so busy adding new characters ---both animal and human--- there is little time to empathize with anything happening here. Most annoying of all is the human-actor side stories, including one too many scenes of Hannah as she tries to find Chloe without Viv noticing she is gone. The scene where Hannah tries to "bark" like Chloe into her cel phone is particularly painful to watch. The sad part is that this could've been a good movie for the kids, so very easily. The voice cast is perfectly chosen, from Drew's excellent voice for Chloe to additional voices by Andy Garcia, George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez and Edward James Olmos, among many others. Yet even the best of award winning acting talent could not save this movie from a script with so many plot holes that the story seemingly implodes upon itself. Little kids will love the talking animals. Anyone old enough to dress themselves should leave this for the dogs.
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