Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

nessa-btro Mostpeople would say that this movie is the best of the worst movies. I haven't seen another film about girls in gangs like this one. I think this movie, even though times and trends changed a little bit for cholitas, is a great at portraying what life for them back then- was like. For shur, they should definitely come out with a movie based on one of my favorite books- LAdy Q.- This is getting off topic- but a lot of scenes in this movie remind me of Piotrowski Park in my city. I cant stand the oldies look in this movie at all- or the black lipstick- but thats how they used to look in the 90's. sad. I also cant stand the fact that these 2 girls (mousie and sad girl, are fightin over a loser who is playing both of them and hes a dumbass!

dowcet When NPR did a series of stories on gangs in Los Angeles, I remembered that I'd been meaning to see this film and found it streaming online. It was pretty disappointing, but not a complete waste of time. I'm not an expert on gangs, but I believe the other reviewer may be correct that this film is relatively realistic, and at the same time, it is not excessively graphic for a gang movie, focusing on various lives in the neighborhood.The worst part was definitely the acting. Some of the writing was painful too, but there were a few outstanding scenes. My favorite bit was a monologue (I think by Ernesto?) about the different feelings he gets (disgust, superiority, sexual arousal) from selling drugs to desperate whites. Certain characters like Blue Eyes and Puppet were also interesting, but otherwise the story was pretty weak. There was an interesting attempt at carrying a feminist message but it didn't really work for me. If anyone knows of a better film about Chicano gangs, let me know.

TrixRforKids Well let's see...I saw this movie when I was about twelve years old and thought it was pretty good considering it was a low budget film, and I still do give credit to the makers of it for that aspect. However I am afraid to say that being grown up and realizing that gangs are anything but cool and that two women getting pregnant by the same man and fighting for him, is by far what defines Mexican culture. Therefore I am going to have to give this movie two thumbs down. The movie does nothing but show the negative aspects of ghetto life and places Hispanic faces to portray it.Main characters Mousie and Sad Girl never change throughout the movie. In fact almost all the characters are pretty one-dimensional and have no revelation or turn-around whatsoever. The only character to change was Giggles when she decides to get a job with computers but the other girls look at her as if they don't know the meaning of the word. They think she's weird for wanting to better herself so instead they sit around at home, don't go to school, deal drugs and bring their children around the other gang members. There's even an irrelevant part where Sad Girl is "tripping out" because she only has two food stamps left. Little lines like that that have no meaning or relevance to the progression of the story make me cease to wonder why Hollywood insists on making Hispanics be portrayed so poorly.To the makers of this movie...Shame on you.

gipz "Mi Vida Loca" is a film showing what it's like to grow up in a gang; but its uniqueness is that the story is told from the female viewpoint ~ what it is like to grow up as a homegirl is very different from what it is like to belong to a gang as a male.