Immigration Tango (2010)

7% of critics liked it
(14 reviews)
22% of users liked it
(97 ratings)

When Elena, a Russian immigrant studying in Miami and Carlos her Columbian boyfriend run out of legal options for staying in the U.S. the couple switch partners with Betty and Mike, an American couple who are also their best friends. All is well until the stress of keeping up appearances to their… More When Elena, a Russian immigrant studying in Miami and Carlos her Columbian boyfriend run out of legal options for staying in the U.S. the couple switch partners with Betty and Mike, an American couple who are also their best friends. All is well until the stress of keeping up appearances to their family members and a savvy immigration enforcement agent eventually begins to take its toll. -- (C) Roadside Attractions

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: David Burton Morris
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Feb 18, 2011 Limited
On DVD: Jun 28, 2011
Studio: Roadside Attractions

Critic Reviews

Loren King, Boston Globe
Neither the comedy nor the romance is strong enough in "Immigration Tango'' to offer any improvement on Peter Weir's similar, and better, 1990 film "Green Card.''
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
"Immigration Tango" is like a slow-dance with your sister - perfunctory, awkward and without a hint of heat.
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
A minor, sometimes likable romp through miscellaneous narrative clichés, all of them rendered with the snug medium shots and predetermined character arcs that are coin of the realm on the tube.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
The stuff of sitcoms. Complications, of course, ensue, but they're exactly the complications you expect, with exactly the results.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
This lame sex comedy doesn't exactly add much to the debate over illegal immigrants.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Leon is actually kind of charming as an actor, but he's completely wasted in this bomb.
Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com
A lazy film that inadvertently romanticizes the efforts of immigration enforcement. By the end, you'll be cheering for deportation.
Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
Immigration Tango is the kind of surreally terrible comedy you'd come across on HBO at three in the morning...in the 1980s.
David Noh, Film Journal International
When romantic comedy fails, it is often accompanied by a flatulent fizzle, but this one is already D.O.A.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
The movie never comes close to making you believe such an arrangement between these people could ever exist.