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SPOILERS FOR SURE
You think you'll be saying Yum, but you'll end up saying Yuck! This story about early 20th century Mexican/Texican women falling in love and grappling with family tradition began on a very promising note. Young Tita is in love with handsome Pedro...though you're never given any real reason to latch onto them or cheer them on. You don't get a story about how they meet, what drew them together...maybe just good ol' hot Latin lust (ew)? Anyway, Pedro marries Rosaura, the older sister, to "be close to his true love" while Tita is bossed around by her bitch of a mother, who isn't satisfied just ruining Tita's lovelife, she has to ridicule and criticize Tita's every move. Tita escapes her daily misery by whipping up delicious foods in the kitchen, but even this isn't given much screen time. Aside from the quails with rose petal sauce, most of the recipes are given a perfunctory glance. Most of the movie consists of Tita and Pedro pining, exchanging a few hasty kisses, and the one sex scene is completely in the dark. In short, this movie really has nothing to offer, even for us pervs who like passionate, if vapid, sex scenes as a last resort for entertainment. The grand climax comes when the two lovebirds finally get their opportunity to be a legit couple, and a spectacular fire erupts as a result of their illicit passions...Repeat after me: vomitrocious!!!
I got this movie because I wanted to see all the recent/semirecent movies about food and love. This one stinks.
score 1/10
PeachHamBeach 25 April 2011
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