Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

jessellymstudent i love the movie it was very exciting i think the actors did a very good job playing a their role i wish i can play in a movie like that i wanna meet the actors one day i hope they are nice and cool i wanna really play in a movie like that. i like the part when victor invited Judy to dinner and the grandma was praying for the food. i hate the part when the grandma tried to get rid of victor and she couldn't cause the police would lock her up and they would be in foster care. i think the best character i liked was victor cause he funny, smart and cool. i would like to hang out with him in real life. i think victor was the best actor cause he sound serious and he looks hot.

Python Hyena Raising Victor Vargas (2002): Dir: Peter Sollett / Cast: Victor Rasuk, Altagracia Guzman, Judy Marte, Wilfree Vasquez, Melonie Diaz: Standard romantic comedy about growth and generations. Victor Vargas has the top reputation of scoring with women in his neighbourhood until he is caught having sex with an overweight woman. He decides to ask out the new girl in town but after being rejected he bargains with her younger brother to set him up. In return Vargas will set him up with his sister. His strict grandmother takes a dislike to his behaviour and the example he is setting for his younger siblings. Fine setup hindered by formula and an ending that seems to justify teen sex. Directed with insight by Peter Sollett with an engaging performance by Victor Rasuk as Vargas who may get off with too much. Altagracia Guzman is superb as his grandmother who struggles to maintain the virtue of her household. Unfortunately Judy Marte as the new girl is standard issue predictable romance tired of being hit on by boys but ultimately accepts Vargas who will have her in the sack before the credits roll. Wilfree Vasquez as her anxious younger brother steals scenes as he provides information in hopes for a romantic reward. Message is strong but the filmmaking is amateur at best. Theme indicate the difficulties in raising anyone let alone Victor Vargas. Score: 5 ½ / 10

Stefanie Baez I saw this film a while back and it's still at the top of my 'favorite movies' list. It is amazingly put together and what really makes the film are the detailed tid bits (such as the 'Cafe Bustelo' coffee crate being reused as a cup to wash her grandsons hair) that people aren't seeing because YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THIS MOVIE UNLESS YOU ARE HISPANIC. This is just one of those films that is very culturally specific and particular. Please do not bash this film if you have no prior knowledge of what foundation it's being built upon. I completely see what the writer/director was going for, and he hit the target perfectly! This film is highly deserving of a better rating.

caniscandida This is a terrific little movie. It has very much a New Yorker perspective, and more specifically one belonging to this group of Latinos on the Lower East Side, from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, so how this plays outside NYC is anyone's guess. (In one rooftop scene, which must have been filmed in maybe the summer of 2001, there is a brief glimpse of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center; and that puts it in a special category for us New Yorkers.) The writing and the acting are brilliant. All these characters are tough on the outside, extremely vulnerable within. Everything they say is an attack, a command, a mockery, a cajolery, a devious offense, a frightened defense. They are tough, and at times mean, but, more important, they are still lovable, and have begun to recognize how much they love one another.Highlights: the brilliance of the respective dialogues between the two young men (the hero and his buddy) and the two young women whom they are each wooing; the gorgeous affection for the faces and expressions of the central characters; the similarly gorgeous affection for the still developing but already fine bodies of the shirtless brothers; the warm golden lighting of the Guzman/Vargas apartment in many scenes, and of the amazing candle-lighting scene in the church; the poignant use of the same theme, now rendered to piano, which Woody Allen had made meaningful in "Hannah and Her Sisters," the second movement of the harpsichord concerto in F-minor, with its powerful octaves under the left hand.