Film critic "El Fett" described Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez' movie "Instructions Not Included" as "shameful and egocentrically declared by its own author to be a better choice to represent Mexico in the next Academy Awards", reports Tvnws.
Last Monday, September 23 the review titled "Instructions Not Included: It was horrible! Horrible!" was published on website Cinescopia, which has been widely read in social networks since it "shreds and destroys the movie" by the Mexican comedian.
El Fett explains that Eugenio Derbez created the movie using the same narrative script he uses in Mexico "made from the same narrative mold with which Derbez has conquered his country's television, it's imperative to separate the media figure of the scriptwriter, director and actor of his alleged and terrible cinematographic quality in a horrible audiovisual exercise called 'Instructions Not Included'".
The article remembers the success that the comedian has had in Mexican television from 1993 to 1999 "with two TV shows that filled screens with laughter coming from a keen use of language and Mexican slang, the same translation of his format is reflected in a film probably developed where mediocrity and repetition of his formula (from 1999 up to now) is made aberrantly obvious establishing narrative links and grotesquely creating empathy in his film".
The author also explains that the movie shows the typical case of "Mexican identity in and out of its soil, an attempt at reflecting the joy and kindness of the Mexican people" and adds that the film is far from being "good cinema" since it's simply a telenovela with comedic touches which was broadcast on the big screen.
Some of the scripts the critic claims were copied were "Life is Beautiful" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" to which are added, according to the author "the clichés of Mexican and/or Latino telenovelas which slowly make the film unbearable". El Fett pointed out that the use of Mexican double entendres by Eugenio Derbez and the participation of Sammy's character "used to create empathy with the audience but instead turns the film into another television sketch".
The critic ends saying that the movie is "recycled and even phony in its conception, a parody of many other films, something good old Derbez even boasts about in interviews" and makes and invitation to his readers by saying "We have to keep demanding good films!"
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