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I’m not going to beat around the bush and I’ll go ahead and admit that I’d expected a major fuckup and at the beginning of the movie, I was really writhing on the sofa, trying to survive every single minute. The arrival on the scene of the two Mexican actresses, where I kept thinking whether they can speak Czech or whether they have simply been dubbed over clumsily, literally pissed me off. But once they relocated to Prague, all that was over and quite a pleasant story started unravelling that made me laugh a couple of times. The only problem I had was that Praguers (or Czechs in general) were described as incessantly annoyed and annoying people who look as if the only thing they were any good at was getting drunk like a skunk. I’ve done some drinking in Prague a couple of times and I’ve never encountered any of the things Josef Abrhám and his Mexican family ran into over the couple of days they spent in Czechia. On the other hand, the direction is good, the Christmas atmosphere is great, the actors are amazing and even the Mexican chicks made me happy. Especially Aislinn Derbez, who is gorgeous! I’d love to know how hard it was for her to learn Czech. It’s a pity, however, that this movie was trying to focus on so many characters that I ended up having problems finding my way around all of them. Chmela and his family were really nice. Kříž and Roden, however, would definitely have deserved a lot more screen time. All in all, there was no uninteresting character and when the authors cut off the pleasantly working story with a final scene that actually does nothing to unravel the 100-minute rollercoaster of relationships, it’s a bit of a pity, I’d say. (22.11.2015)