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Me No Habla: Casa de mi Padre Full Trailer

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (4)

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I have a lovely family member who after taking many years of Spanish language courses likes to say the occasional sentence in Spanish. As my only proper education in the fine Spanish language was a semester when I was eight, I tend to reply quite reasonably with “me no habla, butthead.” The response is inevitably “the right way to say it is ‘yo no hablo’”. My contention is that it makes no sense to say that you don’t speak a language in the proper grammar of that language.

That repeated exchange is what Will Ferrel’s new vehicle Casa de mi Padre reminds me of, except that it will be a couple of hours long instead of a couple of sentences. Here’s the new trailer, complete with Ron Swanson speaking American for those of us who are uncultured:

Get it? He’s speaking Spanish! Yeah, I kept waiting for there to be something actually funny to happen too. But at least Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite is getting work again.









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Comments

I adore Mexican soap operas (I used to teach Spanish) and a big budget movie version of one? I am so in.

Posted by: Adam C at January 16, 2012 10:52 AM

I am going. I am going to laugh, loudly. I am going to remain a mystery to my husband.

Posted by: Alexis at January 16, 2012 11:13 AM

Did his production company have a 2 for 1 special while shooting the past season of East Bound and Down?

Or was Will kidnapped while shooting down there?

I can see how that went. The EB&D trucks were all backed up at the San Ysidro Crossing.

A small child offers some chiclets to Will.

-- "No gracias".

Then an old woman in a wheelchair with a fake, fake leg offers some pinatas.

-- "No gracias".

Finally, a fat man named Pancho, walking along in a poncho, offers a one of a kind deal.

-- "No gracias".

Pero, Senor. This is a good deal, my friends. I offer the best Mezcal and locals in Mexico, my friends. Por favor, my friend. You shoot at mi villa, my friends, gratis.

-- "No gracias".

(pulls out automatic weapon). Pero, no entiendes, puto. You will make a movie starring my family or I will cut your fucking juevos out with a machete and make pozole with it.

DEAL!!

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at January 16, 2012 12:32 PM

This movie reminds me of a project I saw being made a few years ago when I was in film school.

They ended up making a "white" samurai short movie. They shot it in woods of Vermont and Quebec, wore mostly Middle Ages type of LARP costuming, wielded katana swords, had pseudo Japanese sounding names and either spoke in (or rather spoke in English and were later deliberately poorly dubbed) in Joual Quebec French with English subtitles using a script that aped every Kurosawa movie you can think of.

Yes, it was silly. But the action wasn't bad and the point was to show them making a "foreign" film without either dressing up as racist stereotypes or trying and failing to imitate a culture they had neither the budget or time to faithfully replicate. It was felt more like an homage of the movie the filmmakers knew and loved. It was still far better than John Wayne as Genghis Khan

The main difference is that I give a student film a wide berth of slack given the lack of resources. The attempt is usually to be creative despite the shortcomings. But when a studio does it, such as this movie, it seems wrong whether deliberate or otherwise. And in this case I don't feel like they're trying to be creative. It almost feels lazy. I wonder if they couldn't have done a better job having an actor who could speak Spanish and be Latino. If the movie is just about a miscast white guy stumbling through the story and it would lose everything it has if you take him out of the equation, then I wonder if it has any substance to begin with. I'm getting the same vibe I did with Mike Meyer's Love Guru in that it just seems like a white guy slacking poorly through a curtain of stereotypes for a cheap laugh.

Posted by: bleujayone at January 16, 2012 1:35 PM