A little bit Breakfast Club, a little bit Heart and Souls- which is what I believe it was intended to be.
I'd really love to see this done with more care, because even with the disjointed transitions, crude sexploitation, and clichéd romance plot, I still found myself enjoying most of the characters.
If you scrape away the Telemundo grade hijinks there is actually a solid and charming movie underneath.
I liked Raúl Arévalo's performance most of all, as the teacher who can see ghosts, but I kinda also wanted it to be Chris O'Dowd the whole time?
Watching this was like making pretty decent cupcakes and then realizing how much better they would be if I added jam in the middle.
One other positive thing I can say is that most people think in order to make something "80's" all it takes is some neon and a side ponytail. It is not that simple. 1980's cinema- especially the comedy- had (and still has) something special and sacred that is really hard to reproduce. This film actually captured that essence- if only briefly- in a scene involving a skeleton and a school bus. I felt... nostalgia.
A little bit Breakfast Club, a little bit Heart and Souls- which is what I believe it was intended to be.
I'd really love to see this done with more care, because even with the disjointed transitions, crude sexploitation, and clichéd romance plot, I still found myself enjoying most of the characters.
If you scrape away the Telemundo grade hijinks there is actually a solid and charming movie underneath.
I liked Raúl Arévalo's performance most of all, as the teacher who can see ghosts, but I kinda also wanted it to be Chris O'Dowd the whole time?
Watching this was like making pretty decent cupcakes and then realizing how much better they would be if I added jam in the middle.
One other positive thing I can say is that most people think in order to make something "80's" all it takes is some neon and a side ponytail. It is not that simple. 1980's cinema- especially the comedy- had (and still has) something special and sacred that is really hard to reproduce. This film actually captured that essence- if only briefly- in a scene involving a skeleton and a school bus. I felt... nostalgia.
