Customer Reviews

Cinco Amigas

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This is a film from Argentina that is very appealing to teens. It's about 5 girls who meet up and form a band. As I understand it, the 5 girls were actual contestants in an Idol type reality show that brought people together and put them into bands. I don't believe their band is still together now, but the girls do have good voices and go together well. Here is the website about the movie. http://www.terra.com.ar/especiales/vivirintentando/ This is NOT about the reality show or their true story, but is merely a movie about how fate brought five girls together to form a band.

There are several gags running through from one girl who is constantly getting splashed by cars going by to a huge dog that terrorizes the local Chinese delivery man.

I'm a high school Spanish teacher and my high school girls LOVE this movie to the point where several begged me to buy it from Amazon so they could buy it from me. It's not a real deep movie, but it's light-hearted and fun, with clean teen humor. There are only a couple of bad words in the subtitles in one place. I've watched it several times (many different classes watched it during the day) and I still think it's fun to watch.

A great movie for teenagers. It has all the elements that appeal to teenagers: cool songs, piercings & spiky hair, dance, problems, dreams come true. Despite the cover, it uses real people, not caricatures. There is nothing objectionable in the movie that would make it inappropriate for a general audience. The only drawback is that the English subtitles cannot be turned off. To resolve this issue, tape a long 4"strip of paper across the bottom of the TV screen. (If you are lucky enough to have the equipment to show it on a larger screen, your paper will have to be bigger.)

I am showing this film to high school students. They relate to the characters and are fascinated by the story.

This was a great movie. My grandchildren really enjoyed it even though they don't understand spanish. Thanks to the english translation that they read at the bottom. It was a descent movie without all the cursing and violence.

Bought this movie and showed it to high school Spanish classes. The students made fun of elements and compared the movie to the Spice Girls, but...they also seemed to enjoy it. The "cheesy but highly entertaining" comment came from a senior. Useful for exposing students to a different type of Spanish and to challenge some of their stereotypes about Latin America.

This is a very cute movie. I'm a Spanish teacher and I use it in class and the kids love it. For this price it's a great buy.

My students loved this movie -- the music is good, too. It is not rated -- but I would rate it between G and PG. Definitely fine for middle schoolers and above. Great for students to hear the Spanish and see the subtitles.

I enjoyed this movie and so did my daughter. I haven't shown it to my students yet but I think they will enjoy it too. I'm glad they have the subtitles on the movie because they talk so fast and I'm afraid my Spanish I students won't be able to keep up. The music was also enjoyable.

My high school students reluctantly wanted to switch my Spanish class to finish watching the movie. A lot of vocabulary is used there. Only thing is that it has this Argentinan accent and they talked so fast that a lot of students relied only on the English subtitles. But it was a good movie with a valuable lesson.

It's a little silly but it is good for Spanish classes. They'll be in to it despite the silliness and bad acting.