Many a trailer makes a movie look better than it is. The mild, squeezably soft-hearted Mambo Italiano is a rare case of being not nearly as excruciating as its trailer suggests.

The movie about Italian Montrealers is wacky and broad as a barn to begin with. So it looks cringemaking to distil its slapdashery into a couple of minutes (stuffing all the head-slapping incidents into a few nasty seconds, for example). But the trailer was clearly tailored to sell Mambo Italiano as My Big Fat Italian Wedding. Which, thankfully, it isn't.
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