Puerto Ricans in Paris
Upon being visited by a young famous French designer, who comes to New York, in order to hire them to find her stolen bag, Luis Lopez and Eddie Garcia, two miserable New York detectives of best friends, who do their best and struggle against earning their livings, accept the mission and go to Paris, in order to solve the case.
5 December 1971, Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
28 August 1956, Cayey, Puerto Rico
18 December 1978, Freeport, Illinois, USA
February 08, 2017
Lacks the comedy it craves.
June 29, 2016
There are no laughs, the plot is a bore, and visiting Paris is just an excuse to wheel out postcard backdrops and attractive women. And yet Guzmán and Garcia are good together.
June 10, 2016
Luis Guzman is an instantly recognizable character actor who deserves his shot at being the face of a film. It's just unfortunate that the film turns out to be the lethargic and rarely funny fish-out-of-American-water comedy Puerto Ricans in Paris.
June 13, 2016
Why in the world do the filmmakers go to the trouble of casting Rosario Dawson and Rosie Perez as the detectives' significant others and then leave them in the States away from all the hijinks?
June 09, 2016
A formulaic fish-out-of-water buddy caper given an amusing boost with a casual scrunch of Guzmán's pug-nosed mug.
June 10, 2016
It's charming. It's funny.
June 09, 2016
Guzman and Garcia (reunited from HBO's "How to Make It in America") are a joy to watch, and deliver their lines with just enough nuance to make them truly endearing; sometimes it works, others not so much.
June 10, 2016
It's difficult to see how the film itself could be any less substantial without evaporating on screen.
July 19, 2016
Culture-clash buddy comedy has some crude humor, gun use.
June 10, 2016
Yes, it's predictable. Of course, it follows a formula. But damn if this isn't Guzman's show.
June 16, 2016
The grand takeaway from Puerto Ricans in Paris, which delivers what you'd expect and not much else, is that someone ought to finally give Luis Guzmán the leading role of a lifetime.
