Miguel Wants to Fight (2023) User Reviews

Charming teen comedy

[stevenmortonuk · 5/10 · 18 August 2023]

I enjoyed this movie. I has a lot of charm and made me laugh a decent number of times.

The title pretty much explains the premise of the movie. I felt that the trailer gave away to many of the best scenes, so if you can, watch it without watching the trailer.

The acting was good, and the actors/actress had good on screen chemistry, The movie was short but the premise suited a shorter run time so it didn't feel like a negative.

The story was decent. A bit cliched at times, but nothing too bad.

For a streaming movie, this is pretty good. If you have some time and are looking for a light hearted movie, this is a decent choice.

Refreshing

[vincentlynch-moonoi · 7/10 · 4 March 2024]

I have to preface my review by noting that I'm 74 years old.

And yet, I really enjoyed this movie. Partly because I am a retired teacher/principal, so I sometimes enjoy seeing flicks about school life today.

First off, the title character here is entertaining and the actor -- Tyler Dean Flores -- seems very talented. He can be funny, sweet, angry, threatening...and convincing so. There were times here he looked to old to be a high school student, and other times he looked just right. Hope to see more of him.

I did find several of the costars just a tad annoying, although Christian Vunipola was pretty decent, despite what appears to be a lack of experience. I kinda watched this film due to one supporting actor in it -- Raul Castillo -- who plays the father here, and does nicely, but it's a rather small (but important) part.

One of the things that was really entertaining here was that the script wasn't always serious, or always humorous...it mixed things up. Some of the martial arts scene were entertaining and quite good...but funny...which they were supposed to be. Well done.

"13 Reasons why" was an all-dramatic mini-series that was pretty serious all the time. This is much lighter and simply fun to watch.

It's OK, but falls a little short

[gidalkaiser · 5/10 · 4 September 2023]

I absolutely love Shea and Jason's other work(s). Have followed them as artists/content creators for years.

It's a good concept, off the rip. I get what they were trying to do, because the imagination scenes are exactly how I believe Shea and/or Jason would think out imaginary situations.

But it's just too - nonsensical and farcical. Instead of owning up and telling his friends the truth, Miguel decides he wants to fight because he believes his friends will appreciate him more or something?

The plot misses me, but everything else - the friends' relationship, the awkward kid who wants to be a somebody, the imaginary situations - is solid.

A comedy without any laughs...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 10 September 2023]

Well, I believed that I was in for a comedy here, as I sat down to watch the 2023 movie "Miguel Wants to Fight". Sure, I had never heard about the movie prior to watching it, so I only knew what I had read on IMDb about it. But hey, with it being a movie that I hadn't heard about nor watched, of course I opted to give the movie a chance.

And while I did manage to sit through the 75 minutes that the movie ran for, I must admit that the movie was sort of bland and rather devoid of anything funny. So writers Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion sort of failed to deliver a proper comedy script for the movie. I have to say that the storyline sort of fell short of entertaining me, and it was sort of just a repetitive narrative that the writers came up with.

The acting performances in the movie were fair enough, and it certainly was a movie that had a diverse cast ensemble put together. I found that to be enjoyable, actually. I wasn't familiar with the actors and actresses on the cast list, which is something I tend to enjoy when I watch a movie, as there are no associations to previously portrayed characters in other movies.

"Miguel Wants to Fight" is a movie that came and went without leaving any kind of lasting impression. And I bet that by next week I will have entirely forgotten about it.

My rating of director Oz Rodriguez's 2023 movie "Miguel Wants to Fight" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Fantastic Gem: 9 out of 10

[salvia_d · 9/10 · 21 August 2023]

I don't write reviews here very often, haven't done one for years, but figured I would for this since it's getting a low rating, obviously from haters that just don't get it. Maybe they just don't like heart in movies, so ignore the low rating, this is a fantastic film: feel good, sharp and intelligent. Highly recommend if you like these types of movies... 9 out of 10.

Aside from that, it has some very cool and fun fight scenes, with some hilarious takes on some iconic films, a tribute of sorts. Hint, the posters in Miguel's room pretty much set the stage for what you are about to experiences.

Film well done!

[john-13554 · 9/10 · 18 August 2023]

Hilarious coming of age tale! You could sense chemistry amongst Miguel (Tyler Dean Flores) and his friends. Dig the irony of Miguel's father being a Boxing Instructor. Only drag of the movie featured the Dennis Rodman attire/look of Miguel's best pal, David (Christian Vunipola). David overcame the Metrosexual look by simply being a Badass throughout. Thought the other two best friends (Cass & Srini) upstaged everybody.

Also featured a Hot Teacher in Mrs. Rodriguez (Dascha Polanco), and a School Bully (a la "Three O'clock High"). Suppose the only possible love interest was the Teacher...

Film was spread out well time-wise. Dude was literally racing time to be more like his friends, yet had to grow some balls to do so. Definitely worth a watch!

It's the best I seen in awhile

[themanangel · 10/10 · 18 January 2024]

It's way better than I thought it would be it's perfect for the entire family to watch you will laugh and follow every second of it as it not only shows the beautiful city and the block that I (AngelOFFlows) was living on at the time the movie was being filmed, and the whole entire crew was very very nice and respectful to everyone,as I was watched I was also giving the chance to finally live my heart desire and that was ... well your going to have to watch it to see, Yo highschool high can I be in part 2 also love you all 💯 ,I mean this movie and everyone I do mean everyone thank you I miss you.