The film itself is just such a painstaking recreation (and hilarious overexaggerating) of what it’s spoofing that it becomes a fitting continuation of the format it’s sending up.

| Aug 21, 2023

Yet another potentially funny but underachieving comedy starring Will Ferrell.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

It takes a funny, fresh little skit and tries to stretch it out to a feature length movie.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 1, 2020

While this film isn't quite a home run, it's a bold experiment in cinema.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Casa De Mi Padre is a witty and fun comedy and is totally worth going to see. Even if you don't like reading subtitles you should make an exception and check this out.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 11, 2020

Ultimately, this is not enough comedic merit to fulfil the 85 minutes running time.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 26, 2019

Whilst this comic experiment certainly stands head and shoulders above some of Ferrell's more mediocre projects, it still feels a million miles away from the pinnacle which was Anchorman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Ferrell is funny, as usual, and plays off surprisingly well against Bernal and Luna, who are frequent collaborators in more than one language.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

Ferrell and company do their best to summon up the levels of overacting that are the charming hallmark of telenovelas, but the forced parody pulls you out of that mindset time and again

| Aug 30, 2018

If it doesn't bother you that they speak terribly bad Spanish, including those who boast of having it as their native language, and that the drug trafficking is the main theme... you may at some point enjoy this irreverent comedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2018

Casa de Mi Padre is an amiable but eventually tiresome Spanish-language goof of telenovelas and floridly melodramatic, moustache-twirling westerns.

| Aug 5, 2015

Even if you're making a bad movie on purpose, it's still a bad movie.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Fundamentally, it seems the big joke of Casa de Mi Padre is that it was produced at all, and as a weird Dadaist joke it is indeed satisfying. It's hard, however, to recommend a film that feels like a giant prank.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 25, 2013

Unfortunately for Casa de Mi Padre there's a very fine line between smart-stupid and slapdash-stupid.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 23, 2013

[S]ubtle humor that slips under your radar instead of bashing you over the head is what makes Casa one of the more adventurous comedies in recent years...

| Oct 9, 2012

Unfortunately for Casa de Mi Padre there's a very fine line between smart-stupid and slapdash-stupid.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Sep 15, 2012

After awhile Casa de mi Padre begins to play as a conceptual exercise rather than a legitimately funny movie in its own right.

| Original Score: C | Aug 17, 2012

Pretty much one long sketch painfully stretched to feature length - Casa de mi Padre would have been better served as a short film series on Ferrell's Funny or Die website.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 7, 2012

How many superstars would devote themselves to a project this quixotic? Whether you get the joke that is Casa de Mi Padre or not, you've got to admire Ferrell. Clearly, he isn't only in it for the pesos.

| Jul 25, 2012

In this bat-crazy Mexican telenovela, replete with flimsy scenery and fake horses, Ferrell's stilted Spanish delivery chimes perfectly with the stilted, soapy dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2012