Box office Casa de mi padre opened on March 16, 2012, and despite playing in only 382 locations, the film debuted in ninth place in its opening weekend and earned $2,200,000; an average of $5,759 per locale. According to exit polling the audience was 51% male and 68% Hispanic. The film closed in theatres on May 17, 2012, grossing $5,909,483 in the United States and $8,041,667 worldwide.
Critical reaction Casa de mi padre has received mixed reviews from film critics.
Metacritic assigned the film an average score of 52/100 based on reviews from 32 film critics.
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 41% approval rating, with an average rating of 5.3/10, based on an aggregation of 111 reviews, and offers the consensus; "Thinly written and not as funny as it needs to be,
Casa de mi padre would have worked better as a fake trailer or short film; stretched to feature length, it wears out its welcome far too quickly". Claudia Puig of
USA Today declared, "This very funny spoof of telenovelas and classic Mexican westerns is decidedly offbeat and absurdly daffy".
Owen Gleiberman of
Entertainment Weekly praised Will Ferrell's performance, writing "Ferrell is a good straight actor for the same reason that he's an inspired comedian: He commits himself to every moment. Even in a movie whose highest ambition is to be true to its quaintly delectable tackiness".
Manohla Dargis of
The New York Times commented that "
Casa de mi padre demands that you not take it seriously, and for the most part that's easy to do".
Todd McCarthy of
The Hollywood Reporter stated, "It makes sense that this Spanish-lingo farce plays very much like an
SNL sketch. The only problem is that it packs about as many laughs into its 85 minutes as a good skit does in eight or 10". Justin Chang of
Variety called it "a likable enough lark that rarely achieves outright hilarity".
Roger Ebert of the
Chicago Sun-Times remarked, "The movie is only 84 minutes long, including credit cookies, but that is quite long enough".
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