Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Clevercell Very disappointing...

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Kaminda Simple story of a two runaway kids, raising lot of questions about Cuban society and it's system. It has an underline story line which contradictory to the film title Viva Cuba (Long live Cuba). Through out the film we see the patriotism and quotes like "Viva Che", "Viva Cuba" being thought to the kids like a religion, yet the distance and loosing their dreams in the system. In capitalism parents run "the race" distancing them from their kids and family. The same happens in Socialism where the parents prioritizing their duty to the country before their family. In both the situations it collapses the basic building block of the society. It is an open ending but leaves us thinking can a system make the life better. Can it answer the basic problems of life, or no matter what life will always find a way to make it miserable.

cricket crockett . . . which I saw as part of a film festival double feature following VIVA CUBA! These films are similar in that they are both about two 12-year-olds who feel misunderstood or neglected in their home situations, sense the stirrings of first love for each other, and decide to take a road trip across the island on which they reside. What the young people pack for their respective trips is one of the highlights of both of these movies. Among the differences of the flicks is the musical score. CUBA features upbeat Spanish pop songs, while MOONRISE is backed by dramatic English classical music. While MOONRISE is a big-budget picture featuring a cast of Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, etc., CUBA plays out with community-theater types probably working for food. MOONRISE's CGI is mostly missing in CUBA; the latter's ambiguous close with the kids disappearing in a crashing ocean wave might have been fixable if the director had had access to CGI resources adequate to make his actual intentions for the ending of his travel saga clear to his viewing audience.

Roedy Green This is a wonderful, engaging movie. The movie is completely carried by two ten year old child actors. We see the world completely through their eyes. They are both cute as monkeys, and charming as all get out. They both have expressive faces and lively bodies that constantly surprise and entertain. I was instantly charmed and instantly taken in to care intensely that all should work out for them.We see the adults through the children's eyes, mainly as people to interfere with fun and who are cruel for no reason.The movie is in Spanish with subtitles. This causes some problems, the two mothers look much alike and behave much alike, though one is a snobbish Catholic and the other a snobbish Communist. I found it hard to keep track of who was saying what.The two children, even though one is a boy and one a girl, have similar sounding voices. I often got confused trying to figure out which of the two said what.The story is largely about their adventures running away to find the girl's father. Almost like the fairy tale The Snow Queen, they meet all manner of eccentric characters on the way.There a few corny/hammy scenes, where the director told the kids to do something that adults think kids do, but they would never do, like hold hands and skip or shake hands. Their never-speak-again fight vaporised a bit too quickly for my credibility.As the movie progresses, I kept wondering what plot device could possibly be used to bring this story to a requisite sunny end. I could not think of one. Neither could the writers. They stuck on very strange ambiguous ending. I left me saying What the? It is very unsettling. These lovable kids deserved a happy-ever-after.Maybe the director wanted the kick the squabbling parents in the teeth for their self-centredness.

Chirag Thakkar "Pioneers of Communism, we shall be like Che." set in the land of Cuba, this story is subtly talking about living in the land of comrades and amidst this culture of communism is a story that Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti and Iraida Malberti Cabrera want to tell you. A story of unadulterated friendship and an unspoken language of love. That which can only be experienced and that discomforts you to rationalize it or put it into words. A story of Malu and Jorgito that like to defeat Spain in every war-game, that like to dance together and gaze at the sun, who like dogs and cats fight and argue over everything - but are equally addicted to each other for reasons they do not know and need to know. These "pioneers of exploration", set out on mission not knowing how far their destination is or how to make it there. Least bothered about the differences their parents and families share, these two are free from fear. fear of the unknown, fear of defeat for they know nothing can stop them as long as they are together. And this journey doesn't end in what they had desired it to be. But there's contentment in a the tragic choice they make. They choose not to succumb to irrational and insensitive boundaries that adults set for themselves and for these kids."It's better to die fighting for freedom than to live a life in chains" the kids manifest this into reality