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Introduction to the Netflix Carnaval Movie Review

 

 If you want to watch a movie without intriguing plot twists or if you want to watch a movie as you preoccupy yourself doing something else -- I highly recommend you watch this movie.  However, I’m getting ahead of myself.  Let’s start again.  How would you like to watch a movie about a girls’ trip that is complicated by a number of obstacles -- but still manages to end on an upbeat note? If so, then you may want to watch Netflix’s Carnaval movie. If you want to find outt how I rated the film Carnaval, check out my movie review.

 

Plot of the Netflix Carnaval Movie

 

The movie plot involves a young lady, Nina played by Giovana Cordeiro who gets together with a group of her girlfriends and takes a trip to El Salvador. She won this trip due to the number of followers she has on instagram.  As expected, the group faces a number of setbacks, including initially being separated from those who are housed in a more luxurious hotel simply because they have more than a million followers on instagram.

 

The key word here is “followers''.  It looks like this complete movie could have been an advertisement for instagram and why someone would think they need to have a gazillion followers. It helps also if you can believe that a character out of nowhere seems to attract the main singing talent at the resort -- who by the way has a story of his own.

 

In a few words, this movie is about -- yes -- once again -- a girls' trip. And not one like the comedian/actress Tiffany Haddish funny girls’ trip blockbuster movie which I enjoyed watching immensely.

 

 

Cohesiveness of the Storyline in the Netflix Carnaval Movie

 

The story starts with a fortune teller predicting Giovana Coreiro’s character’s future.  As expected, what she says comes to pass. For the most part, the movie stayed on course showing a group of girls seeming to have fun in El Salvador while meeting up with romantic interests and getting into scraps etc.

 

The outlier here was the character who seemed to have a fear of crowds, who nevertheless decided to join the group at a gathering that was sure to attract a crowd of people. Interestingly enough, she was fine in some of the large crowds. This was the major misstep I saw in the movie in trying to keep it fluffy without a lot of drama.

 

Various Scenarios in the Netflix Carnaval Movie

 

 

 

The above being said, this movie is simple to follow.  if you are just using this movie as a background while you are doing something else -- all the better.  

 

 

The Netflix movie Carnaval attempted to show how these characters interacted with each other.  Spoiler Alert: They even have a villain female in the story, who starts off being popular and of course, ends up in a different state at the end of the movie. 

 

Assessment of the Netflix Carnaval Movie

 

Many of Netflix's movies are shown with actors speaking in a foreign language with English dubbed in. As I watched the Carnaval movie, I tried to refrain from looking at the actors’ lips as much as I could -- since their lips did not follow the sound of the voice coming from them.  This was a small distraction when compared with the predictability of the storyline of the Netflix movie, Carnaval. 

 

The dialogue was fine for this movie; however, I was a little surprised when one of the characters said in exasperation as she was being hushed by her girlfriends for being loud something to the effect that “We are young! It’s not like we are forty or something!”  This line alone is proof enough that the Netflix people who backed the showing of this film is focused on the 18 to 34 year old group -- in having this character make this blatant statement about age.  Nevermind the older people who may be watching.

 

Without a doubt, I was glad to see this movie end. I was also elated that the Carnaval movie lasted a minimum amount of time.  If it had lasted longer, I'm sure I would have changed my streaming to watch another movie. But no worries... I was busy sorting out some of my snail mail as I watched this movie -- so all was not lost.

 

Rating of the Netflix Carnaval Movie

 

Based on a rating of 1 star to 5 stars with 5 stars being the highest, I rate the Carnaval movie 1 ½ stars.