director andy tennant should have ask for a full rewrite on fool rush in . whoever be responsible for the story and screenplay the producer anna maria davis and doug draizin ( whose own romance be seminal to this picture ) or writer joan taylor and katherine reback should have start at that idyll of salma hayek in the mexican backwater and because they give her character isabel fuentes more color and history than anything else in the movie . she be root in her regard for her fierce hispanic great grandmother and her quasi catholic loyalty and and it her family that the movie should first introduce to u . instead they start with workaholic wasp executive alex whitman in new york celebrate a recent success . they should be tell u what it be about the big apple that he like so much that he would have a hard time part with it and move to las vega to please his determined wife and but it doesn not . they make alex do it and because he believe it the right thing and but that leave very little for him to do but follow isabel lead . matthew perry seem whip throughout and and the comedy here be on a grade b sitcom level . the comedy should have be drop for a treatment that point to the tension between the two culture cause by them try to peacefully co exist . rather than haul baseball bat and brandish firearm for laugh and see the two family squirm to get along might have give this picture more depth and something only anne betancourt a isabel mother manage to provide . there be time when isabel choice call into question her judgment and one of them be why she would pick alex over her ex boyfriend chuy and when he be be play by dark and confident carlos gomez . isabel be not submissive like her mother and so it logical that she would pick a man whose fire doesn not conflict with hers . but can she really have much respect for alex and when she lead him around like a puppy dog . i think not . and by the time they reunite in the pouring rain over hoover dam and marry on some bluff overlook a pale grand canyon and you wonder if this new age version of happily ever after be just another divorce wait to happen . a young john bennett perry could have fill the part of alex amply and but at his present age and he be relegate to play alex dad and and his wife be jill clayburgh who in the few minute that she on look like she wonder what possess her to say yes to this movie .