‘¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!’ Review: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Bite Off More Than Expected Restoring a Bad-Taste Restaurant
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic Twenty years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit the set of “Team America: World Police,” an ambitious Jerry Bruckheimer-style action parody, starring puppets, for which Trey Parker and Matt Stone had constructed an enormous North Korean set out of cocktail umbrellas and take-out containers.
Driven by equal parts obstinacy and nostalgia (for the vintage “Thunderbirds” TV show), it was the craziest thing the “South Park” creators had ever done.
That was before the pair decided to revive another guilty pleasure from their past: Casa Bonita, a beloved Denver-area Mexican restaurant, built by gringos in 1973 as an armchair tourist’s idea of 19th-century Acapulco.
On the outside, a bubblegum-pink bell tower loomed tall enough to be seen across town, luring families to the retro fun park within.
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