The Perfect Family (2021) User Reviews

Good family entertainment

[daarenselvakumaran · 6/10 · 15 May 2022]

Funny and fast paced movie. The plot is slightly predictable but very fun to watch.

The casting is almost perfect They acted so well.

A good movie to watch with the family.

The other kind of perfect

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 15 May 2022]

Which some may call ... not perfect actually. Having said that, there is a lot of comedy and a lot of actors I have seen in other stuff. So this spanish movie really got a few things going for itself. It has some high points when it comes to dialog and it has an almost ridiculous family dinner scene towards the end - but it all is told and edited in a neat and good way.

The movie, like the relationships of those involved, is anything but perfect. But that is not a bad thing and not something to be too mad about. This is decent family entertainment with a few high points and a lot of drama. Almost as much as there is comedy actually - sometimes the mixture of both is not the best it could be ...

not a comedy - synopsis and trailer are misleading

[buckythewonderhorse · 5/10 · 16 July 2022]

(To avoid spoilers, only read the 2 paragraphs after this one)

After watching the trailer, I thought this could be fun: rich boy gets engaged to working class girl, and a funny clash of cultures between the families follows, as in e.g. My Big Fat Greek Wedding. And for the first 20 or so minutes, that is what we get.

Then it turns strange. The boy and girl become background characters, and it becomes a romantic drama about the mother of groom, torn between her feelings for the energetic father of the bride, and her loyalty to her rich but boring scientist husband. And it becomes more light drama than comedy.

OK, now the spoiler:

the boy and the girl happily marry, but the affair between the mother of the groom and the father of bride causes both their marriages to break up, leaving all four of them single. I know life is sometimes like that, but having two marriages break up is not what I call an enjoyable romantic comedy.

Boring

[thesaintcouk · 1/10 · 21 May 2022]

Boring film, like most of Netflix's catalogue lately.

None of the characters arouse interest, the story is poor and heavy, it doesn't grab the viewer.

The story is vulgar and lacking in humour and the ending is not even credible.

a quirky spanish comedy...

[ops-52535 · 7/10 · 17 May 2022]

About love and wornout relationships due to many years marriage, symptoms that the grumpy old man reckognize and have been and do still fight against, due to lots of reasos, but in sickness and health we shall endure to death or whatever they say in the wows on your wedding day, a day that the grumpy old man was so nervous that day my mind has completely cut away from my memorandum, but that was a blustery day yes, and my niece were babbling just behind us in the church irritatingly repeating ''no,no,no,no...'' so i ended up shakingly saying yes, at the same time wishing to flap the flabber outta thet nosy creature crawling behind my back...

its a at moments a honest and laughworthy comedy with loads of twists and shocking thrills, but also some plotholes here and there with a nonbalanced timeline, but the castensemble delivers from good to great, and if you like spanish neomodern comedy done in a linguistically beautiful way, without too much rattattatta-ta dialouges uzi style i give this a seven from my heart.

A bit long playtime but the opposites are fascinating, so go for it if you've got time.

In fact, it is not a comedy

[MrWNeff · 2/10 · 22 May 2022]

The beginning was promising. It seemed the classical clash of classes with comical situations. Then the movie becomes a complete nonsense with many plotholes. The character Lucía evolves from comical to completely illogical.

In the end, it is more a movie about the evolution of the character of Lucía. The writers tried to disguise the movie as a comedy. However, the result is bad as comedy and bad as a movie about the evolution of Lucía.

My rate is 2, not 1 just because of the acting of José Coronado.

Typical Spanish Comedy

[thejdrage · 7/10 · 2 June 2022]

This is a fun Spanish comedy.

Too bad the cute son/fiance can't control his face and he over acts with it - like a spoiled 9 year old.

The ending is a kicker and, frankly, worth the watch. We can all take a lesson or two from it.

Enjoy!

A French Farce badly executed Spanish Style

[qui_j · 2/10 · 16 May 2022]

This is just silly! The acting is forced and not very natural. The dialog and script is childish and the plot a very predictable one. Maybe it would have appeal to a local Spanish audience, but globally, the humor just doesn't translate well. .

Cute Lighthearted Comedy

[PalmBeachG · 7/10 · 6 August 2022]

Watched on a Sat afternoon as it is a short movie and it turned out to be just right - a cute light hearted comedy trashy vs elegant family merging together for a wedding with some unexpected results.

The worst movie in living history

[andreacuratolo · 1/10 · 21 May 2022]

It is commendable to beat the odds of incompetence to make a bad movie...because what you are going to see here it is a striking sequence of must-be deliberate senseless plot, misrepresented stereotypes, bad acting, and horrible directing.

It's one hour and 50 minutes of your life you are not getting back, and you will regret it for the rest of your life!

I warned you!

NOt the prefect femily but ...

[greekdx · 8/10 · 17 October 2022]

One of the possibly newest in Netflix was pushed to my TV screen and sounded quite interesting as title I was expecting a rom com movie.

Indeed the story started as a typical rom com but after the half the things changed> while the first part was referred to the proceedings for making the wedding of the groom and bride the second half is focused to the grooms mothers life after she was divorced from her husband for one reason : she had a nice chemistry with the in law !

The story then unfolds on how she restarted her life making her dreams once again realizable . I stop here referring more movie details.

The other part of the story is the difference between rich and poor. She and her husband are from the rich category. They are quite phlegmatic . In contrast the other family are lousy people : wife is very open minded and funny , her husband is less but still a fun man and ther children very lively in contrast to the other family. Totally different cast , the only that makes the pair join is the love and understand the differences . This made the groom family in the start being very negative but resisting very polite this marriage

The other side of the story raised from the grooms mother as we listen is more deep: 'All my life was a disaster to me: For more than 50 years I was a perfect wife I did the prefect wedding and made a perfect family but . Noting did to my life so far ' This was the reason she lived then alone The solution can be found in the story . Enjoy yourself!

If you endure the first 15 minutes, the movie is going to reward you.

[elenitsa-19 · 7/10 · 18 March 2023]

When the film begins, it seems that it is a comedy about a mother trying to ruin her son's relationship because she didn't like his girlfriend.

The son of a wealthy family falls in love with a girl that lives in a not so good neighborhood. When the son asks his parents to meet his girlfriend and her famiy, the parents realize that the girl isn't what they wish for their beloved son.

But.... the movie is so much more (!!!) than a mother-in-law fighting daughter-in-law parody.

Actually, the movie is not at all about the relationship of the son, rather than the discovery of the inner feelings of the people surrounding the couple, especially the mother.

It is a touching and emotional comedy with funny moments. Definitely worth watching.

Stay away from junk movie

[jshulea · 1/10 · 22 May 2022]

What is wrong with this movie? Everything. Awful play script, acting, directing and photography. But, for sure, could be successfully used for brainwashing of progressive people. Good luck!

Disgusting

[aramdosky · 1/10 · 20 May 2022]

It's outrageous to see movies supporting divorce and scandalous. The wife doesn't show any regret after cheating on her husband, and "Ernesto" is so normal and okay with it as if nothing ever happened. The husband character "Ernesto" has zero dignity. The wife character "Lucia" has no integrity whatsoever. Also when "Amparo" character changes her style into a disgraceful one, you see another support to that. The movies isn't that funny as well. Humor can be a good one, not supporting such things.

Eng dubbed as Perfact Family

[dr_hgj-48231 · 6/10 · 7 March 2023]

We have a high class aristocratic errogant rich family. Son goes little downwards selects loweriddle class family girl but more liberal, independent, lousy as well.

For a gala wedding mother first tries to postponed the date but by liberal always ready to please attitude of girl's father, this classy lady succumbs! She even falls for sons father in law. Shame shame every where but she is firm. She feels she gave up her womanhood in house keeping and family duties raising kids. She lost more then a family gain, she still is ready to perform and not to run away and doing all these without apologizing As she has did nothing wrong. On other hand daughters mother is also stuburned one refuses pardon to husband and melodrama has all funny laughable dialogues and situations we have seen many in other scripts. Family drama is dependent on this basic plots formulae but the atuburnness of both mother's actions put the males on edge still everything is finished in a smiling group family photo!

No fun, no script, no actors... no-thing

[telecartago · 1/10 · 4 June 2022]

Belen, it's up to you, in your daily life, to inject botox in your face. But, if you're going to act... don't do the.ridicoulous, and don't damage your almost correct career, being in front of the camera like a Spynh... please, come on!

About the movie... to watch it is to loose the time.

A chore to watch

[sidneyseavers · 1/10 · 22 June 2022]

This was like if you asked a high school class to write a play. So many cliches stereotypes and just pathetically obvious next turns. The. Saving grace was indeed Belen Rueda she was the only believable character. Meanwhile the brides family was so obnoxious they were more like cartoon characters than humans in a movie. All in all I could not wait for the second the movie ended. Unfortunately I was meant to endure it with my partner who happened to love it. Good luck to all.

Horrible piece of cinema. 100% feminist agenda oriented

[tecnogaming · 1/10 · 27 June 2023]

If you were wanting to watch a good comedy, be prepared, this is anything but.

The movie starts out great honestly and the work of Belén Rueda is really commendable. She really shines through the movie with great acting but that's about it. Soon after the infidelity is discovered, the whole movie goes downhill.

Just an example on how feminism is destroying cinema.

• The father of the boyfriend is a complete moron, doesn't even know how to open a microwave without the wife.

• The father of the bride is a carpenter that does not work and spent his time chopping wood and making stupid things out of wood with no purpose and also willing to be unfaithful to his wife without any remorse.

• The brother of the bride is so stupid he doesn't even know how to speak properly, his IQ seems to be below 50 and he constantly do stupid things for no reason.

• The random men are always pricks, like the one on the street messing with the bus.

• The father of the church seems to be a disabled man, only interested in eating while things happen.

• The actual boyfriend, who does not appear to do anything with his life besides getting the bride.

On the contrary, these are the women characters:

• The main lead, a super rich woman that finds out her life was spent incorrectly on her husband and child and now is empowered to be herself, without any man close. Her husband is a complete moron.

• The bride's mom, that drives a bus everyday and also takes care of her husband like a real women of today, she also has time to make a speech to a random man about what women face everyday in this horrible men-driven world.

• The main bride, who is a workout trainer and an empowered woman that does everything right, also can do training classes while being pregnant because that shows even more women power.

• The secretary of the main lead, who hires her teacher because she is cool and deserves to work. She also mentions that you should not discriminate a pregnant women for work, even when the main lead wanted to hire her.

I could go on and on..

Most meaningful interactions in this movie are going between women and women and when man are portrayed, they are simply cartoonish, incompetent, stupid and plain boring.

This is 100% feminist agenda at work. Shame on directors, shame on writers and shame on actors. You're contributing to the deterioration of society with this crap. This is not cinema, this is indoctrination agenda at it's best. Kids should never learn that men are simply stupid or mean, that women are powerful and should work and do everything for men and that taking care of a child is like abandoning oneself.

This movie is plain disgusting.

Sweet feel good - should have been a series

[andredejongh · 8/10 · 15 May 2022]

Sweet production. Good actors. Many good ideas. But 1 hour 45 minutes is a bit too short for all the interesting storylines and all these good actors. I really would have watched like 12 episodes of this.

Wonderful entertainment

[chavarriajudith · 10/10 · 10 June 2022]

Just what you need if you look for a good entertaining night. Belén was spectacular and so were the rest of the actors. Good easy fun and great acting and production!

Good comedy.

[PeterHerrmann · 8/10 · 17 July 2022]

The first half was great, then it got a bit absurd. But the actors - esp. Rueda - were very good. But I always wanted to know how it would end .. so kept my interest, a key rating criterion for me. Rueda is not only hypnotically (imho) beautiful, but has a very animated and dominant presence, and great comedy timing.