Cha-cha-chá

I would say it's a funny film, nothing likely to win any awards, but still highly entertaining. Although, I would like to correct some comments above. First, these actors are not in the "elite", as some one put it. Eduardo Noriega is a very popular actor and well respected,and maybe Jorge Sanz is quite well known. María Adánez is a good actress, but she's usually doing TV. Ana Álvarez is OK, but she's hardly famous in Spain. Maybe the most respected actor in the film, although not as popular as handsome Noriega would be Gabino Diego, who plays the stupid rich nerd in the beginning of the film. Sorry if my English isn't perfect...

The film shows a brilliant acting by Eduardo Noriega, who plays the role of a model who finds a very special job. He will have to conquer Lucia's best friend, Maria, to leave her a free way to Maria's boyfriend. It's a funny comedy based on the efforts of Antonio to make Maria to fall in love with him. He will have to learn about the intellectual hobbies of Maria, including the dancing lessons where she is the teacher. The plot and the acting (the four main actors belong to the elite of the Spanish acting) are the best things of the movie, which was filmed in Madrid. The soundtrack of the movie has been quite successful in Spain, including some Cha Cha Cha songs and a very good version from Rosario Flores of the popular song "Lucia", originally from Serrat. It's the perfect film to watch for a funny relaxing evening.

I see the average rating of this movie is 6.2 out of 10. I think that's a little low, personally, because this is meant to be a sexy comedy movie, and it does foot that bill, most definitely. It's simply hilarious, and even i'm not a Spanish native speaker, but i was able to understand sufficiently to find great amusement all the way through. I watched the first time without the subtitles and the second time with. it's a hilarious movie, even if you have to suspend your disbelief at times. just have fun with it. and the protagonist looks like Jessica Biel??? :) just note: this movie is from prior to the DVD era, so it may contain embedded subtitles. my copy did, i had to put up a paper in front of the screen to block them. it does work lol.

So many things were taboo when Franco ruled: but here we are with an imitation of the sopless silliness of the Franco years, but just simply adding in the sexy bits and other previously frowned-on ingredients. Using actors who should have stayed where they were, doing rubbishy TV series on the different national and regional channels, here is a cooked up waste of time and effort by all concerned: there's nothing new. There was no message. Just paltry little situations which were neither funny nor led to anywhere or anything else. Contrived, the same as the too well-known faces who are mostly capable of only filling up 30 minute weightless TV series with ham interpretations. Just nothing going for it - not even the abused selection of pieces of Tchaickovsky did anything to add a little dignity to the trash. No, if you want to see where decent Spanish cinema is going, forget this stupidity with an intellectual level of around zero (the same as my vote), and I'll recommend other worthwhile titles elsewhere on IMDb for more serious cinema-lovers.

A light comedy about partying twenty-something Spaniards in the '80 s, CHA CHA CHA provides pleasant entertainment and provokes nostalgic comparisons with the darker, heavier '90 s Madrid party flicks so immersed in stark social themes. Perhaps its most appealing feature to European film buffs is the casting of today's biggest box-office draws dishing out what most people expect from the film: beautiful people enjoying the idealized mid-1980 s yuppie lifestyle. It is refreshing in its accurate somewhat romanticized evocation of the recent past.