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Like Water for Chocolate
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leanardi,
Regina Torne, Claudette Maille, Mario Ivan Martinez |
| MPAA Rated: |
R |
| Released By: |
Miramax |
| Distributed By: |
Miramax |
| Kiddie Movie: |
Oh, no. |
| Date Movie: |
It might make both
of you frisky. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
There is, and
nudity, too. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Fire, fire, fire,
and sadly women raped. |
| Action: |
Nah. |
| Laughs: |
There are a few
chuckles. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
"Mom" causing a
fire. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Nah. |
| Directed By: |
Alfonso Arau |
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Cool Things About the DVD |
| Anything Else! |
It didn't look
like my Netflix DVD had anything cool, but then again, this
movie did come out before the DVD revolution began.
Rent it for friskiness. |
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Like Water
for Chocolate
A Movie/DVD Review |
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I generally am totally "anti" movies with subtitles, but
my BFF told me a while back that one of her favorite movies
is "Like Water for Chocolate," and I have to admit, that
once in a while, a movie comes along, even one that I have
to read, that I totally love ("Pan’s Labyrinth"
comes to mind), and others not so much ("Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon"),
but watching a movie about cooking, sex, and love was okay
for a night of snuggling with my BFF.
The basic story is this: Tita (Lumi Cavazos) loves Pedro
(Marco Leonardi). And as fate would have it, Pedro loves
Tita. The problem is that Tita’s mom, Elena (Regina Torne)
has this weird family tradition that the youngest daughter
cannot get married, that her lot in life is to take care of
mom, so until mom dies, Tita will be Elena’s caregiver and
can’t experience love.
But Tita’s a girl, she wants to experience love, and
Pedro wants to be around Tita, so what does Pedro do? Well
he marries Tita’s sister, of course, which only causes chaos
because how can the two of them keep their hands off of each
other? Then Tita finds that through cooking, well, she
can send her feelings into the food, so that at Pedro’s
wedding, well, no one ends up happy, and at a separate dinner, well,
things get so crazy that her sister, Gertrudis (Claudette
Maille), becomes so sexually hot that she sets the outhouse
on fire and rides away with the, I think it was the Mexican
army.
You would think things would get better for Tita when mom
finally kicks the bucket, but now Elena’s ghost haunts Tita,
especially as Tita is having romance with the good Dr. Brown
(Mario Ivan Martinez), but still really wants to have sex
with Pedro.
I know, the movie sounds like total dudette-flickedness,
and for the most part it is, and sure, you do have to read
during the movie, but as the tragedy comes at the end, it’s
also about love, and dudes, your dudette will probably love
it, you get some nudity, and there might be a minute you
wonder why the bed-sheet has a decorative hole in it.
Yes, I have to admit, I did like "Like Water for
Chocolate," even as I kidded with my BFF about how Elena’s
ghost could help set people on fire, but that’s just a cover
for my sentimental side seeing the selfish bitch that was
Elena, the selfish bitch that Tita’s sister had become, and
how sometimes tragedy is the only way for love to survive.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t hold on to my Netflix version of
the DVD long enough to see if the extras are worth the
purchase, but for a nice snuggle-up movie with your honey,
dudes, suck it up and snuggle with her on the couch. The
movie might make her frisky enough to pull out some hot
fudge, and well, the night won’t end when the TV gets turned
off. It’s 4 stars out of 5 for "Like Water for Chocolate,"
even if I did have to "read" the movie.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |
