Armando Alvarez Revealed in a Brief 'Casa de mi Padre' Trailer

Friday, 16 December 2011 13:16 Written by Jordan DeSaulnier

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Armando Alvarez Revealed in a Brief 'Casa de mi Padre' Trailer

Last week we saw two posters for Casa de mi Padre, the comedy that has Will Ferrell playing Mexican ranch hand Armando Alvarez. Today, a really quick teaser trailer for the film arrived online, and it provides just the smallest sampling of the lunacy sure to be contained in the film, which is done in the style of a Spanish-language soap opera and contains only a minimal amount of English. This thirty-second introductory teaser doesn't really clue audiences in to that fact, what with most people's aversion to subtitles and all, but instead gets some good trailer voice going and relies on Will Ferrell being goofy. The inarguable highlight of this half minute, though, is definitely Diego Luna wielding two handguns, John Woo-style.

The trailer debuted at Apple, and you can see it in high definition by heading over that way, but the embed below is here thanks entirely to ComingSoon.

The story centers on Armando, a good-natured imbecile who works on his father's ancestral farm. When he far more successful brother Raul, played by Luna, returns home with a beautiful fiancee, played by Genesis Rodriguez, Armando begins a torrid affair with the gorgeous woman. That's just for starters, though, as it turns out Raul's fortune comes from the drug trade, and the family becomes the target of one of the world's most fearsome drug lords. That drug lord is portrayed by Gael Garcia Bernal, Luna's co-star in Alfonso Cuaron's outstanding Y tu mama Tambien.

The film is written by Andrew Steele, a longtime Saturday Night Live contributor, with fellow SNL and Funny or Die veteran Matt Piedmont directing. Piedmont already deserves kudos for the inspired casting of Gael Garcia Bernal as a menacing drug kingpin.

Casa de mi Padre opens in limited release on March 16, 2012.

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