Review – Like Water for Chocolate

I suppose if you’re going to make a movie about the joys of adultery you might at least toss in enough quirky humor and fine dining to make it worthwhile. The adultery is excused by the plot point early on that our heroine’s cruel mother prevents her from marrying her true love. Who instead marries her unattractive sister. So I guess that makes it okay. That aside, the characters are engaging and the plot reasonably clever. The writing and direction work well together to add amusing twists and turns to what would otherwise be a tedious Mexican soap opera. Mildly amusing