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By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
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Weak, tiresome romcom about the need to get married.
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What's the Story?
In ALGO AZUL, Ana (Liz Grimaldo) is a manager at a fancy hotel. She's put in charge of the wedding of TV celeb Lucia (Andera Perez Meana), which is scheduled a week before her own wedding. She had promised her dead grandmother to wear a certain gown, but it's been swapped by the dressmaker with someone else's dress. Ana runs aggressively after the unsuspecting woman walking off with her dress. They fight, and the dress is ripped and run over by a passing car. There's no time to make another. Now, somehow, the only day Ana can get married is that very day. In a highly unprofessional move, Ana sneaks into Lucia's hotel suite and tries on her $20,000 gown. She's caught, but Lucia doesn't ask her to take the dress off. Instead, she drops Ana's uniform out the window. With nothing else to wear, Ana runs out in the dress and proceeds to make hurried wedding arrangements while the police and everyone with a smartphone camera pursues. Will she get her happily ever after?
Is It Any Good?
Algo Azul borders on unbearable. When a dressmaker realizes she has swapped wedding dresses on two customers, shouldn't the dressmaker who made the error straighten the problem out? Instead, one hysterical customer accosts the stranger walking off with her dress and chaos ensues. Not a good way to make friends and influence people. This idiocy sets off the movie's many other utterly implausible developments, and makes it more and more exasperating and less and less fun to watch. The lead character is prone to debilitating hysterics and overreactions to life's obstacles.
Other questions arise. Would a woman who wants her $20,000 wedding dress back really try to tear it off of someone else? The movie might have been near watchable if the tendency to make multiple terrible decisions was limited to only one character, but here all seem bent on acting against their own best interests. Does that create dramatic tension, or just audience frustration?
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how this depicts some women's views about the importance of getting married. Do you think Ana's desperation seems realistic? Why, or why not?
Do you think the movie's premise mocks women or makes them seem unduly focused on marriage? Why, or why not?
What does the movie say about the judgment of its main character?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming : June 5, 2021
- Cast : Liz Grimaldo , Carlos Torres , Pablo Brunstein
- Director : Mariel Garcia Spooner
- Inclusion Information : Latino Movie Actor(s)
- Studio : HBO Max
- Genre : Comedy
- Run time : 90 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- Last updated : July 26, 2022
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