Casa de mi Padre

It’s the craziest idea Will Ferrell has ever had. It‘s probably one of his best, too. In his new movie, Casa de mi Padre, Ferrell plays Armando, the somewhat slow-witted son of a Mexican rancher who spends his days riding the range, herding the cattle and trying to hand-roll a cigarette that doesn’t fall apart before he can bring it to his mouth. It’s an idyllic life for Armando, a life he thinks will be made even better when his older brother Raul (Diego Luna) returns to the family ranch. It isn’t long, however, before Armando discovers Raul is dealer mixed up in a drug cartel war that could destroy his whole family. The humor of Casa de me Padre is hard to describe, and will lose a lot in translation from the big screen to a few words in a review. If you read that in one scene that Ferrell approaches a calf in the field to pick him up, but in the shot of him holding the calf it has been replaced with an obviously fake animal, you will wonder what’s so funny about that. Yet seeing it is hilarious.