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Beverly Hills Chihuahua Defeats La Macha

8:38 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Movies

16 Oct 2008

I’ve tried to go to see the Beverly Hills Chihuahua three times since the movie came out, but alas, the Chihuahua is stronger than La Macha. I can’t do it, I just can’t. I want to be able to see the movie, and offer a valid critique of it, but everything about it makes my teeth set on edge. For example, this is the blurb about the story:

Drew Barrymore is the voice of Chloe, a high-maintenance, pink-bootie-wearing Chihuahua with a hovering celebrity owner (Jamie Lee Curtis). When her careless dog sitter (Piper Perabo) takers Chloe to Mexico, the pooch is kidnapped by a dog-fighting ring. But in this pup’s harrowing quest to return home to the Hills, she ends up finding her inner bark.

So, all the leads are white folks, right? But watch the trailer:

Where are all the white folks? For some reason, watching the trailer, I get the idea that the movie is about George Lopez for.

Could Disney be using Latinos to justify a racist movie that plays on tired stereotypes? But if it is, why on earth is every Latino under the sun in the damn movie? Does Latino Hollywood need jobs that badly??

I can not watch the movie to give some answers–maybe my dear VLatinos can?

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3 Responses to Beverly Hills Chihuahua Defeats La Macha

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Maegan la Mala

October 17th, 2008 at 8:47 am

I got heat for saying this when Apocolypto came out, pero I’ll buy a bootleg and analyze that. Ain’t no way in hell I’m puttin money into that movie or the peeps that made it.

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hobby

October 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am

All of the lead characters are not white. Jamie Lee Curtis is white and portrays the stereotype white, Beverly Hills lady who throws obscene amounts of money around and shows it off everywhere she goes. Piper Perabo is her somewhat self-centered niece. Only two white main characters.
George Lopez is one of the main voices. Most of the movie takes place in Mexico. “Hello, they are chihuahuas mijo”.
Why wouldn’t Latinos voice these characters? It is a cute movie geared toward children who don’t think twice about the people, characters, voices, dialog, or settings. They see talking dogs who are in Mexico and who have a different accent than many of them. They find this interesting if they think about it at all. Your phony boo-hooing is what will seep into their little minds eventually and skew their open-minded outlook on life.
I doubt that all of the Latino actors who wanted to be involved in this movie are in need of jobs. Have you seen the list? Just watch the movie before you judge it unless, of course, you’re afraid that if you do you won’t have anything to gripe about. Watch it with a young child if possible and try to see it through his or her eyes. That way at least your eyes will be open.

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try watching the CURRENT trailer not this old one that they don’t use.

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Julia

October 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am

“Children who don’t think twice” about what they are seeing is EXACTLY the problem.
The skewered & exaggerated racial “interpretations” in the movie are getting access to imprint those very young people, to “seep into their little minds” before they’re aware enough to be media-savvy.

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