Waste of time

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This film was hilarious right from the start. I love Nick Frost and have seen now in a few things. I hadn't seen Chris O'Dowd in anything before and I have to say he's not going to be a favourite of mine any time soon. His character was overbearing at times in this film. I am glad though that Nick Frost's character got the girl in the end and especially enjoyed how his friend after seeing him dance joined in too. A great comedy film that I will watch again even with Chris O'Dowd's character in it. I loved the film and would certainly recommend to my friends and family. Ian McShane's character was a nice surprise. I laughed so much watching this film. A good comedy film that made me laugh out loud.

Presumably intentionally, a host of dance - movie clichés are assembled and trotted out in no particular order to no particular purpose in "Cuban Fury" in which ugly duckling Company Man becomes Beautiful Swan free(-ish) spirit through the love of Salsa. There is a lot of swearing as is the fashion and if that makes you laugh then feel absolutely free to fall about at this because precious little else is even vaguely funny. I may be biased here because the only Frost /Pegg collaboration I have seen apart from this is "Hot Fuzz" which I thought pretty dire. But I like to think I watched "Cuban Fury" with an unprejudiced eye. There are felicitous moments such as when Mr Frost punches his arm through a stud wall in his office and calmly carries on signing papers with his free hand and when the wonderful Miss O.Coleman joins him on the golf range and beats him out of sight,but generally,for a satire to succeed it should be a bit subtle and a lot funnier. The car park "dance off" between Mr Frost and Mr O'Dowd was done better in "Benidorm". Miss Coleman effervesces as Mr Frost's sister and erstwhile dance partner and it is good to see her in a more lighthearted role than of late. For me,Mr I McShane walks away with the picture without apparent effort as the Salsa teacher.Here is a man whose hypnotic persona has often been ill - served on television and only recently as in "Deadwood" has his charisma been unshackled. In "Cuban Fury" his magnificent seediness and faux malevolence is given full rein and he has no difficulty in dominating the film despite having relatively little screen time. For him and Miss Coleman the picture gets a generous six out of ten,rather more than it's true worth in my opinion.

Review: I quite enjoyed this heartwarming tale about a salsa dancer who stops dancing because he gets bullies when he was young. He then falls for a new employee at his workplace who also enjoys Salsa dancing so he picks up the art again to try and get close to his love. Some of the scenes were funny, especially with Chris O'Dowd & Kayvan Novak who plays the gay dancer, and I loved the music throughout the movie. It's enjoyable if you don't take it seriously, but some of the scenes are a bit ridiculous, like the standoff in the car park. I was impressed with Nick Frost dancing, especially because of his size, and Nicks sister, Olivia Coleman, was also pretty impressive. Anyway, it's full of fun for the whole family and I'm sure that you will be tapping for feet throughout the film.Round-Up: It's a shame that the movie didn't make that much money because the whole cast put in 100% and they all looked like professional dancers. We are all familiar with a Nick Frost's type of humour from the Shaun of the a Dead franchise and Paul so you kind of know what type of comedy to expect. Personally, it's not a movie that I would watch over and over again, but it's a simple storyline which has some great dance moves.Budget: N/A Worldwide Gross: $100,000 (Terrible!)I recommend this movie to people who are into there movies about a salsa dancer who tries to charm the love of his life through dance. 5/10

Watching films like the present one is, under some respects, a rite: we know in advance what is awaiting us, we can easily imagine what will happen, how things will turn, how they will end. So when we start watching we wonder mainly one thing: will the story develop as we expect, will our expectations be happily confirmed or on the contrary will something unpleasant let us down? Which is exactly what doesn't have to happen.Knowingly or not we are seeking for something that will sooth our anxiety, like a balm. This is the prerequisite. Then we check if the film is OK, if it makes us laugh, if the story is original, if it surprises us, if the funny characters are actually funny... and so on.Well according to me everything is OK in this nice movie, the story is good, the characters are catching and everything is as it had to be: funny and entertaining. A good British answer to American comedies.