How the Gringo Stole Christmas (2023) YTS

Reviewed by Randy Dreammaker 6 / 10

**_How the Gringo Stole Christmas is a 2023

**_How the Gringo Stole Christmas is a 2023 holiday comedy about a Latino father’s desire for a traditional Mexican Christmas that goes wrong when his daughter brings home her white boyfriend._** **This movie is similar to:** If you have ever watched the movie Father of the Bride starring Steve Martin, then you have the basic premise of this movie. It is similar in the over all theme of a daughter bringing home her boyfriend at Christmas, only to put her overly protective and idealistic father into a frenzy. Beyond that, the two movies are completely different stories. **A filmmakers perspective:** From a filmmakers perspective, the story is solid and easily flows without distraction from beginning to end. That being said, I believe this story could have been written a lot better. As for cinematography the quality is mostly solid with decent framing, though it does have some noticeable lighting issues that apparently were not able to be corrected during post production. It looks a little drab at places. **The acting:** The acting is decent, but could be a lot better, this may be due in part to casting choices. I found the lead actress to come across as stiff at times. Co-star George Lopez was not very funny and his acting seemed off. If you are a long-time George Lopez fan, you won’t find his best work here. **Content Warning:** For movie watchers who might be concerned about the connotations that the title of this movie may invoke, I think you will find that any concerns are mostly unwarranted. There are mild racial and gender overtones throughout this movie, so if you are sensitive to this kind of tension, you may desire to sit this one out. **Of interests to faith-based movie watchers:** Be aware that this movie contains a gay background character who is portrayed as a friend of the protagonist. This is not immediately revealed and is used to move the story forward while injecting curiosity about the relationship between this character and the protagonist. Other than the protagonist indicating the character is gay, there are no other references or mentions of the characters sexual identification. This movie contains no sex scenes or nudity of any kind. However, It does contain frequent use of explicit vulgar language and has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. **Final thoughts about How The Gringo Stole Christmas (2023):** I approached this movie expecting not to like How the Gringo Stole Christmas, based on upon my knowledge of the racially triggering comedic history of co-star George Lopez. By the end of the movie, I found my concerns were mostly unwarranted and I was pleasantly surprised with how much I actually enjoyed it. I believe this movies title is an attempt to capitalize on the name of that traditionally popular Christmas movie called, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, replacing Grinch for Gringo. I do not feel it lives up to its appropriation. This would not be the first movie I would watch or recommend for Christmas family entertainment, it would be something I would watch after any other movies on my Christmas or holiday movie list had been watched.

Reviewed by LetsReviewThat26 5 / 10

sure its bad but actually..

Its not the best christmas film, but not the worst ive watched and it certainly isnt the worst film ever. Claudia wants to go away for the holidays, she has not seen her family but to her surprise boyfriend leif, odd name but its ok, he pays to fly her home for the holidays. George lopez plays bennie her father and has the best acting of this film. He has strict values and so his daughter dating an american is not something he wants. Lets give the film two stars because it actually has a good title. But one needs to be taken off because they did lopez dirty with whatever they did to his face. But ill add another as he did have the best acting. Another point ill add for the three guys outside the house who I assume represent the three wise men and it fitted well to this. To get us to five stars ill add to more for the overall enjoyment. Not overally christmas feeling but it did have a sweet outcome that might be predictable. Overall an odd comedy but given the right audience people will enjoy it all the same.

Reviewed by pmtelefon 5 / 10

Better than I expected

That's true. When I sat down to watch "How the Gringo Stole Christmas" I expected it to be really bad. I'm no fan of George Lopez. I've never liked his standup/sitcoms. But I have to admit, Lopez does a pretty good job in this movie. His Mexican Archie Bunker routine wears itself pretty thin sometimes but he also gets more than a handful of laughs. Now, I don't want to be mean but I have to mention that I was a little surprised by how Lopez looks. He's not an attractive man. He often looks like a Mexican version of Shemp Howard. His supporting cast scores pretty well on the likeability chart, especially the three homies, which helps the movie out quite a bit. As far as super low budget straight-to-video Christmas movies go, "How the Gringo Stole Christmas" isn't so bad.

How the Gringo Stole Christmas

2023

Action / Comedy

How the Gringo Stole Christmas

2023

Action / Comedy

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**_How the Gringo Stole Christmas is a 2023

sure its bad but actually..

Better than I expected

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