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Published on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 11:07pm |
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They Gave Luis Guzman A TV Series on Fox!! All Bow Down!!
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I am – Hercules!!
I always thought it would be fun to cast Luis Guzman as a vampire in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” or “Angel,” because he’d look pretty much the same in human- and vamp-face.
Behold everyone’s favorite Puerto Rican thespian not named Jennifer as he squanders the goodwill garnered in “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” “Anger Management” and “Dumb and Dumberer” -- in the service of a tawdry Fox sitcom!
As tasteless as week-old crullers, Luis is a melting pot of cring-inducing ethnic ciches. Guzman, a fine character actor, is not a natural comedian. He launches every lame joke as if it were a weapon. This isn’t funny, it’s frightening.
Nothing in the premiere … indicates that {Guzman’s] ready yet to shoulder star billing. To be fair, Guzman might be fine if given the opportunity to play a more textured character instead of the perpetually angry proprietor of a Spanish Harlem doughnut shop.
Advocacy groups pushing for more Latinos on TV may hang their heads after watching "Luis." Fox's laffer indeed puts a Puerto Riqueno front and center, but the show pastes together every possible cliche at the expense of sophistication and, more seriously, the advancement of minorities on series television. Weak punchlines come fast and furious, and so do plenty of off-color jokes that take this half-hour in the wrong direction.
You loved him in ''Traffic.'' You feared him in ''Oz.'' Now you'll feel mildly annoyed by him in his own sitcom. … Like ''Whoopi,'' ''Luis'' traffics in the season's most odious cliche: a white character who acts ''black'' (blame it on ''Bringing Down the House'').
USA Today gives it one star (out of four) and says:
… horrific … Loud, loathsome 'Luis' misfires … Guzman seems to think the key to sitcom stardom is to shoot out every line and hammer every gesture. Your reaction isn't to laugh, it's to duck.
8:30 p.m. Friday. Fox.

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Reader Talkback
Luis by EthanEdwards | Sep 18th, 2003 11:12:55 PM | get back to movies by mag7man | Sep 18th, 2003 11:17:31 PM | LUIS
GUUUUUZZZZMMMMMAAAAANNNNNN!!!!
! by Osmosis Jones | Sep 19th, 2003 12:41:17 AM | "I swear on my dead relatives
- and even on the ones who are
not by I Hate Movies | Sep 19th, 2003 01:10:56 AM | Yes, back to the movies with
him! Pluto Nash II! Anger
Managem by Hercules | Sep 19th, 2003 01:48:27 AM | Yes, they gave Gooz a show by ChickenGeorgeVII | Sep 19th, 2003 03:40:21 AM | Is this the guy that was in
Count of Monte Cristo? by crush181 | Sep 19th, 2003 04:01:50 AM | Don't worry... by Cyridel | Sep 19th, 2003 09:55:36 AM | Links by BillBrasky2620 | Sep 19th, 2003 10:49:14 AM | Luis Guzman is white? by Fred | Sep 19th, 2003 11:21:13 AM | I just do NOT understand all
this worship of Luis Guzman
here at by WarDog | Sep 19th, 2003 11:58:59 AM | Puh-leeze by radio1_mike | Sep 19th, 2003 01:59:16 PM | For this? by HailDaHypnoToad | Sep 19th, 2003 02:12:36 PM | How are the cliche's and
stereotypes any different than
the Geor by 007-11 | Sep 19th, 2003 03:25:09 PM | FUCK
FOX...........................
................COUNT OF MONT by T-MACK 1.01 | Sep 19th, 2003 05:03:17 PM | LUIS GUZMAN by fabfunk | Sep 19th, 2003 07:23:47 PM | motherfuckin' studio execs got
everything backwards by MiltonWaddams | Sep 19th, 2003 08:15:27 PM | I watched this show tonight,
didn't like it. Wanda At Large
thou by SexyBeast | Sep 19th, 2003 10:01:11 PM | Donknotts by super Cucaracha | Sep 19th, 2003 11:57:43 PM | HAHAHAHAHA you crack me up
Donknotts by super Cucaracha | Sep 20th, 2003 04:29:50 AM | Curse of the
Sitcom-the-Title-of-Which-Is-T
he-Same-As-The-First- by Psychonaut | Sep 20th, 2003 06:06:03 AM | Reminded me of 'Becker'. Main
character with a usually bad
atti by Klone | Sep 20th, 2003 12:07:18 PM |
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