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Information
- Year
- 1940
- Runtime
- 67 min.
- Director
- Leslie Goodwins
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.2
- Votes *
- 174
- Checks
- 35
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 2.9% (1:35)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
Mexican Spitfire is The Girl from Mexico's immediate sequel (titled after Lupe Vélez's nickname in the media, all subsequent films in the series will feature it), with our comic heroine and her boring beau coming back from their honeymoon and immediately falling afoul of his ex and his aunt who try to break the marriage up. Though present in the first film, this is where Leon Errol (as the sympathetic uncle) and Vélez become a double act. It's really THEIR series, not just hers. As far as the plot goes, it pretty much hangs on an extended dual identity sketch, and nothing else. The gag even repeats later. The traditional romcom elements have been sidelined in favor of more shtick, especially from Errol. Vélez is about the same, but has more clever malapropisms this time, so I'd say this one is funnier than the original, but not by a wide margin. Too much of a one-trick pony for more of a recommendation. 5 years 8 months ago