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

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Ran across this little movie by accident...What caught my eye was the billing of "George Negrete"....I had to watch it to see if that turned out to be Jorge Negrete. It did, and being a huge fan of his singing...well, I had to watch it. He was a really big star in that era in Mexico....I have several of his movies, and as many of his albums I could find. It's a simple movie...minimal plot....very much like an American copy of the style of Mexican movies of that era. A lot of inaccurate mixing of music, dress and accents, but still an amusing comedy with some pretty decent music....and pretty short, so it never really gets boring.

Remember when W.C. Fields, introducing twins, claimed that one was the world's largest midget, and the other was the world's shortest giant? Well, this film could be called either the cinema's longest short, or the cinema's shortest feature, take your pick. And it's actually pretty good. It's all about a young girl who returns from Mexico City with her new fiancé, only to have her old boyfriend, who has been waiting for her to return, try to scare the pompous man off. Yes, it all happens in less than 50 minutes, and includes several fun musical numbers including the silly but entertaining "What do you do with a jumping bean?", as well as several numbers in Spanish.Throw in some colorful costumes and houses that look like the Munchkinland set from "The Wizard of Oz" and add on some nice color photography (which resembles the MGM Travel Talks series), and you have a pleasant little musical feature. The cast is pretty adequate, but the choreography by LeRoy Prinz is most memorable. Anne Ayres is about as realistic as a Mexican girl as Charleton Heston was as a Mexican man in "A Touch of Evil". The stereotypes of the pleasant peasants, people of such good nature that they have to force themselves to lie in order to go to confession, and then go back to confession to confess that they lied about lying, is rather silly. Some of the comical moments seem a bit forced, but what else can you expect in a Hal Roach comedy? Simply enjoy the music and the color.

Fiesta with a running time of only 43 minutes seems to fall in a never never land of film classification. Not long enough to be a feature film and too long for a short subject. It's strictly an academic question because I doubt this film would have qualified for any awards.It barely has a plot in it and what little it does concerns young Anne Ayars bringing home radio star George Givot for guardian/uncle Antonio Moreno's approval. Givot is certainly not the hero his publicity makes him out to be and Jorge Negrette spend what little time between songs and dances proving it so and winning Ayars.If you watch Fiesta you're not watching it for any story, but to enjoy the musical numbers. Latin American music was at the time making one of its periodic bursts of popularity at the time Fiesta was made and the film is an attempt to cash in on that as well.The numbers are nice, but you can hear and see the same thing watching Desi Arnaz do an occasional number on I Love Lucy.

The funniest thing about this colorful teeny weeny delicious pinyata of a musical is that it is 45 minutes... and it is quite funny anyway.. The best thing about it is the incredible color...Technicolor...and eye-popping art direction. It is exquisite to watch. The story? ...remember this is a 45 minute movie now.... someone turns up at the fiesta with some radio bozo and the village decides to get rid of him so she can marry someone who loves her. This takes 44 minutes. Inbetween opening and closing doors there is what seems like 55 songs and an incredible amount of parading and twirling about in the village square...which is the one big set...with rooms and doors and verandas from each side. In fact it looks exactly like the wonderful style of 20s cinemas designed by John Eberson called Atmospherics which looked like a Spanish courtyard complete with steps and balconies and a twinkling cobalt blue sky with stars overhead. Made independently in 1940, FIESTA is a charming situation comedy for rural audiences in delicious color and with authentic looking costumes of an infinitely beautiful variety. I would easily say this film is one of the most beautiful early color films yet seen... if you have seen MGM's $3 million dollar YOLANDA AND THE THIEF made in 1945 or THE PIRATE in 1948, or other as expensive big studio lush fantasy films, this small budget pic is easily as spectacular in its modest way. I have never seen the colour 30s pix LA CUCURACHA or THE DANCING PIRATE but I would suggest this lovely dance musical belongs in that bracket of tech productions. I would certainly say it was made for country and suburban audiences. What it lacks in running time it makes up for in lavish screen detail. It's not about much, but who cares? it is absolutely gorgeous to see and funny to boot. Kids would love it. 45 minutes!