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Chasing Papi

2003, Movie, PG, 100 mins

Chasing Papi: Review

CHASING PAPI
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With enough energy and sex appeal for at least two screwball comedies, director Linda Mendoza's fast-paced debut puts a fresh, spicy spin on an age-old generic set-up: Three vastly different women discover that their Prince Charmings are all one and the same Casanova. His name is Tomas Fuentes (Mexican singer and soap star Eduardo Verastegui), a devastatingly good-looking marketing executive who leaves most women, a few men and even a nun swooning in his wake. Tomas is based in Los Angeles, but quite literally has a girl in every port. Cici (Sofia Vergara), a bespangled cocktail waitress who dreams of one day becoming a professional dancer, is his gal in Miami; pampered, Pomeranian-toting rich girl Patricia (Jaci Velasquez) lives in New York; and Lorena (Roselyn Sanchez), a bespectacled, buttoned-down anti-discrimination lawyer, calls the Windy City home. They're all in love with Tomas, and completely unaware of the competition; Cici, Patricia and Lorena are also devoted to Walter Mercado, the popular real-life tele-astrologer whose on-air predictions send all three rushing to L.A. and, they think, into Tomas's welcoming arms. Instead, they come face-to-face with one another and the realization that Tomas has been triple-dipping behind their backs. But just as a major catfight is about to erupt, an accidental overdose of tranquilizers renders Tomas unconscious and his three bachelorettes entangled in the kind of complications that ensue only in the goofiest romantic comedies. Lorena is mistaken for Miss Puerto Rico and winds up competing in a Miss Latina beauty pageant. Patricia discovers that her overbearing mother (Maria Conchita Alonso) has canceled her errant daughter's credit cards and she must now learn to fend for herself. And Cici, well, Cici teaches the girls how to dance like Charo. There's a subplot involving a bag full of counterfeit cash that sets a pair of crooks (D.L. Hughley, Freddy Rodriguez) and a comely police officer (Lisa Vidal) on the girls' trail, and through the madness the ladies bicker, bond and eventually bring out the best in one another. It's all ridiculously contrived, but the film barrels along at such a manic pace that there's barely time to take a breath, let alone think. The energy is infectious, and while the female empowerment angle is no doubt sincere, the whole up-tempo construction jiggles a bit too much to be taken seriously. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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