Magical realism; go get some good Mexican food afterward

An extremely exaggerated melodrama. Your enjoyment depends on how you handle stuff like Tita's magical food that causes everybody to cry, fuck, or experience transubstantiation; plus other moments like a quilt knitted out of grief that has to be 100 feet long and the longest metaphor ever.

I loved the book and the movie. They did a great adaptation.

An odd jumble of random, half-motivated scenes, some good, others unoriginal and tedious. At the center of it all is a completely standard conceit about love. The acting and directing is strong, but otherwise, it's a remarkably average film, for all its hype and pretense.

Really enjoyed this. It oddly was lacking in dialogue so it makes an easy to watch foreign language film. If you speak Spanish even better. Or maybe worse.

Has about as much to do with the real Mexico as _The Lion King_ has to do with the real Africa, but somehow this is a curiously potent fantasy. Great-aunt Tita quite possibly has the greatest smile in the world; modest, not 100 watts

This fantasy is one of my all time favorites. Don't look for any relevant accuracies here when it pertains to the region of the film. Instead, relish a new twist on a story of forbidden love.

Seems that true love waits despite everything and every one... a story using mexican ingredients for cooking.