Of course, a plot like that isn't what would drive people to the movie. Obviously, one of the leading factors are the three lovely ladies that act as the leads. No strangers themselves to the pages of Maxim, the uber lovely Roselyn Sanchez and Sofia Vergara usually display the kind of sex without abandon attitude that draws men such as myself. But in this case, it's kind of misleading. So sexless is this movie that it almost seems like a violation of trust between the filmmakers and the audience. After all, if you're going to have a trio of sexy girls in your otherwise stupidly inane movie, they sure as hell better be doing something somewhat sexy. It's a movie that calls out for a whole lot jiggle, but really doesn't deliver.

Even at a lean 80 minutes Chasing Papi is amazingly hard to stomach. When you find a movie that's shorter than some episodes of Law and Order and you find yourself reaching for the remote, almost begging the gods to make it all end, you know that something's rotten in Miami. The greatest problem is that it attempts to be a sex comedy with no sex (and frankly, no comedy) or some kind of commentary about the place of Latin women in society. Unfortunately, it doesn't do too well at that either. Once the story gets ramped up, it's literally an hour of people running around doing nothing interesting at all. Only a brief appearance by Six Feet Under's Freddy Rodriguez does anything to break up the tortuous monotony. And I still can't explain why he was in the movie in the first place.

I love the Latin ladies, but I don't love them enough to put up with this crap.

Movie Grade: D-

Video: 4 out of 5
It's beautiful and bright and extremely Latina filled. It's nice that they have the full screen on one side and the wide on the other.
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1 / Full Screen 1.33:1