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Mambo Cafe

1999, Movie, PG-13, 98 mins

Mambo Cafe: Review

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An equal opportunity offender: Italian mobsters, WASPs and the assorted caucasian families that brusquely descend upon Frank’s (Paul Rodriguez) Puerto Rican restaurant all receive equally stereotypical treatment by writer-director Reuben Gonzalez. The Mamba Cafe is short on customers, and Frank has been holding the creditors at bay — his phone conversations run heavily to, "The check is in the mail." When a TV news report describes an Italian restaurant's business upswing after a notorious underworld leader is murdered on the premise, it occurs to Frank and his son Ricky (Rick Gonzalez) to make sure a local mobster is dining at their establishment when his scheduled execution occurs. Daughter Nydia (Latin pop singer Thalia), who's dating WASPy Chris (Richard Hillman), objects on principle to this plotting, but later acquiesces when Frank confesses tells her he's already sunk her college fund into the cafe. The film aims for a light touch of slapstick high jinks; but it's hard to get past the grotesquerie of the customers, the low-budget look of the production and the amateurish treatment of characters. leave a comment --William Kozy
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