{"id":8618,"date":"2021-01-05T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:07:26","slug":"review-half-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8618","title":{"rendered":"Review: HALF BROTHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clumsy comedy is uninspired<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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An attempt to make a metaphoric comedy about the US-Mexico relationship falls flat as famous Mexican movie star Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez struggles to make the clumsy \u201cHalf Brothers\u201d concoction palatable. In the process, he\u2019s almost upstaged by an adorable goat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cHalf Brothers,\u201d M\u00e9ndez plays Renato, a successful Mexican businessman. He built his growing aviation empire without his father’s support, who left the family years earlier to seek work abroad. The story reminds us of the economic collapse in 1994 that caused many in Mexico to immigrate north. Renato\u2019s dad, Flavio (Juan Pablo Espinosa), finds life hard in the States, and eventually, he calls home to tell his wife and young son that he\u2019s not returning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-five years pass, and Renato receives a call informing him that Flavio is now dying and wants to see him. Reluctant at first, Renato\u2019s fianc\u00e9, Pamela (Pia Watson), encourages him to make the trip. And that\u2019s what he does. A plane ride to Chicago and Renato visits his father in a hospital room. But before his dad\u2019s passing, he\u2019s introduced, for the first time, to his half brother, the happy-go-lucky Asher (a red-bearded, goofy Connor Del Rio).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make things right with his sons, Flavio sends the boys on a scavenger hunt\/road trip. And he\u2019s left them clues leading to a mysterious Eloise. Who is this mystery woman? And how can she redeem Flavio in the eyes of his children?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Jonathan’s complete review online and in print in the Times-Herald: https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/12\/half-brothers-clumsy-comedy-is-uninspired<\/a>

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Doesn’t have half the inspired comedic energy of 1995’s “Tommy Boy”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[213,1948],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-immigration","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8622,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions\/8622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}