"Spanish Movie" is a film making fun of typical elements of Spanish Movies. It centers around a maid that is supposed to support a widow, her two children and her sick brother but instead kills the boy on her first day.
As most of the films that carry such a title, this one consists of rather easy humor, not very clever but very obvious. It is, to a degree, entertaining, but sometimes very over the top and desperately trying to be funny. In some cases, it probably manages to demask popular elements of Spanish film-making, in other cases gags are a little random. I can't resist the feeling though, that all of this could have been better transported through a short sketch delivering the best punchlines rather than in such a long film.
All in all this is a film that isn't really needed. It isn't clever enough to be subtle, yet entertaining enough to not be a total flop. Something you can watch but won't remember probably.
As most of the films that carry such a title, this one consists of rather easy humor, not very clever but very obvious. It is, to a degree, entertaining, but sometimes very over the top and desperately trying to be funny. In some cases, it probably manages to demask popular elements of Spanish film-making, in other cases gags are a little random. I can't resist the feeling though, that all of this could have been better transported through a short sketch delivering the best punchlines rather than in such a long film.
All in all this is a film that isn't really needed. It isn't clever enough to be subtle, yet entertaining enough to not be a total flop. Something you can watch but won't remember probably.