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But it's not even subtle... anglo-speaking actors playing the "rebel"/bad Spaniards in blackface. "Good" Spaniards and our heroes, perfectly white.

I know those were other times with other values (segregation, for example, them), but with our lens - or their lens and just a *bit* of sensitivity - it's clearly following the path of racist propaganda portraying as comically caricaturesque dictator an actor in a blackface. If you can get over that stuff, you may enjoy it for what it is: a competent studio production, correctly acted and directed. But I just can't, sorry.

... long ago are gone the days Manuel Gómez Pereira made original comedies, with this joining the likes of "Perfectos Desconocidos" as remakes of European hit comedies, now in Spanish and with a good Spanish ensemble. Literally copycatting the marvelous original by the master Frank Oz, but without adding anything that could justify watching this version rather than coming back to the British one... it may fool you, if you haven't seen that one, but the worst is that, it's just so-so and can certainly make you uninterested in checking out "Death at a Funeral" (the British one, there's an also mediocre American version changing the white anglosaxon characters with Afro-American ones).

I have the sour feeling that Boyle is frustrated that Fresnadillo's underrated "28 Weeks Later" is better reviewed than the original "28 Days Later" and therefore ignores the Spanish sequel (that actually had themes related to family, abuse, toxicity, government abuse and captured the zeitgeist and today would be a harder watch, comparing to what's going on in Gaza) and decided to cash grab on the franchise with a new trilogy (he STILL uses some footage from "28 Weeks Later", ironically) that it is a bit all over the place, distracting with some choices that add to nowhere literally ending Power Rangers style, almost falling in unexpected and unintentional hilarity. When one of the most discussed things about your film is one of the character's manhood, certainly you need to recheck your priorities... (and all those inserts of old footage trying to convey ideas that are already obvious...). The film is saved mostly by the actors, and some thrilling moments, but feels directionless, basic, and maybe it gets better after the two next installments are delivered... but as an unique film, some minor ideas, and quite frustrating.