FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

glitterattigroup I loved this on so many levels...The story was well written and truly took me everywhere Celia was. I felt as though I was actually in those places, feeling what she felt... I loved the love between Celia and Pedro, rarely do you see this type of unconditional love last through a lifetime.The music, the performances were absolutely wonderful, as were the costumes!Celia Cruz impacted so many people and so many lives. TELEMUNDO THANK YOU FOR CHRONICLING THE LIFE OF CELIA CRUZ! AN ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH! GREAT JOB!

Jack Butler The music, sense of place, acting and characters were compelling and wonderful, up until the time jump. The shift in actors was jarring and the "old" versions lacked the charm and energy of the original cast. In particular, the actress who played the "old" Lola, was a pastiche of mannerisms. It appears someone told her that "drug addicts" play with their mouths continually. Her constant touching of her lips and cheeks was distracting, and by all accounts had nothing to do with the real La Lupe, upon whom the character was supposed to be based. The "old" Pedro had the energy of a spent copper-top, running the emotional gamut from A to B. Seriously, this was essentially two novellas, jammed together any old way. Wonderful for the first half, and a slog of amateur hour performances for the second.

O.M I think most people didn't realize what they were getting into when they started watching the show. It wasn't show in the History channel, and it wasn't a biography either. With that in mind, I really liked Celia's story. I watched it on Netflix so I was able to skip most of Lola's stories and all the damn flashbacks (WAY TOO MANY). The characters tried their best to portrait Cuban people, but seriously no one in Cuba says "plata" when talking about money, some barely even tried to have a Cuban accent. There were so many of those little things that just destroy the illusion but overall it was OK. I give it a 5 because if you cut all the unnecessary plots (Lola's) and flashbacks the show would probably be closer to 40 episodes. The lip sync was also a bit weird at moments (probably edited badly) and the way people got old in the show was really weird and confusing. So my advice if you are considering watching is to skip all the flashbacks and scenes with Lola in them.

cmventur ****Some spoilers***I watched a few episodes back when it first came out and decided to watch it on Netflix as my next binge show. First and foremost this a biopic telenovela. As such characters and story lines have been embellished or created for drama and entertainment. If you expected a accurate biopic move along. People were upset about the additional characters and story lines taking center stage must understand what medium this show is produced for telenovelas are shown long runs and the main story is sprinkled in to milk the episode#. That said the production value is superb almost movie-like. Costumes, set designs and such were very nice, the acting was pretty good and they choose people who resembled the real life Celia and Pedro albeit much more attractive as TV shows do. The music had the Cuban-flavor despite it not being completely accurate as others noted only 3 songs of hers actually being sung in the show, blame Sony for that they own her music catalogue and charged the studio an arm and a leg for the rights. Overall its really entertaining, beautiful to look at from costumes, sets and actors overall an easy 10/10 as a telenovela, as a TV drama i would say its a 7-8 out of 10.