My review of the Mambo Kings

in this article I will be reviewing one of my favorite motion pictures called the Mambo Kingz. The story of the mambo kings is a total work of fiction. There was a book, fictional novel that this movie is based upon. The movie stars Armand Assante, Antonio, Banderas, and the queen of salsa Celia Cruz.

Notable cameos include Desi, Arnaz Junior, playing his father Desi Arnaz. Another notable cameo is from the king of Timbal Tito Puente. Mambo Kings is the story of two brothers from Cuba, who come to New York City, to make a name for themselves on the Latin music scene, in the 1950s when mambo was exploding.

This movie is based in a time known as Cuba, B.C, when Cuba really was the island Paradise that everybody says it was. The Mambo kings really is an underrated treasure of a movie. The brothers in the movie, find fame and Fortune with the songs they composed. One of the songs is a mambo ballad, written by the brother, who played the trumpet about a girl he knew in Cuba.

The other brother sings in the musical outfit and conducts the orchestra too. They pay their dues on the famous New York nightclub scene of the time to musical glory and success. I wanna talk more about the cameos of Tito Puente and of Desi Arnez Junior. At one point the brothers go to a nightclub and somehow the one brother played by Armando Santi makes it on stage where Tito Puente and he starts to have a dual on timbal.

The two really get into it on stage, Arman’s character is so into jammin. He doesn’t realize that a shootout just happened. Once he realize the music stops at the end, he asks the funny question “where’d everybody go?” In the movie, when the brothers, achieve musical fame and success, they’re still playing the New York City, Latin, nightclub scene, that night someone special was in the audience, it was Desi Arnez, portrayed by his son, Desi, Arnez Junior.

So Desi took an immediate liking to the brothers, and invited them to be cameos, and I love Lucy, the brothers had accepted. None of that really happened, the scene they were doing was the scene where Ricky’s friends from Cuba come to perform at his club club Babaloo. The I love Lucy episode I am referring to is the episode called “Cuban pals.”

Celia Cruz also makes a cameo in one of her few English language roles as a nightclub owner that the brothers try to pitch their musical act to. The lives of the brothers and their relationship had everything real brothers go through, like their joys, tribulations, triumphs, good times, and bad times through it all they had the music and they also had each other.

However, the mambo kings ended tragically, one night the brothers were in a car driving back from a gig with the trumpet, playing brothers wife, and baby when an accident occurred.

The trumpet playing brother died. To honor his brother the one who survived carried on the act to honor his fallen brothers memory. I love the movie the mambo Kings. It’s one of the best musical movies I have ever seen in my life. It’s right up there with movies like Selena, La Bamba, El Cantante, and other movies that talk about the trials and tribulations of successful people in Latin music, and also other movies about our other artists and other musical genres as well. I haven’t read the book the Mambo Kings in which this movie is based, but I would love to.