Latinologues (2005)

The stereotype-laden preshow speech sets the tone for Latinologues: ''If you must open your 40 ouncer, do it quietly.'' From there, the laughs are loud, abundant, too easy (a border-patrol agent who puts ''the panic to the Hispanic''), and tired (a horny busboy simulating butt-slapping sex while singing Daddy Yankee's ''Gasolina''). Make that tired and icky. Director Cheech Marin and four appealing actors (including playwright Rick Najera) mine a few quietly emotional moments — a soft-spoken Dominican janitor, the pregnant-and-proud ''virgin of the Bronx'' — and these well-crafted characters are worth more than all the coke-snorting-Cuban jokes combined.