Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Salam Hayek and Penelope Cruz two hot ladies on the heist movie.. What more do you want.. i don't know why everyone wants story in every movie. We need movies like these sometimes. The making and visuals are really amazing, so colorful. Its normal heist and revenge movie. Salma and Penelope makes it as fun ride movie. Don't believe all the nonsense reviews (Including mine). Just watch the trailer you will know. Worth for the time you spent.

Good fun (if bit predictable). However, started to wonder as was watching it...what's wrong with two talented beautiful actresses acting their age...?!! They should have either cast girls - actresses who look like they could be young daughters still living at home at the start of the film ie teenagers - and so it would have had that believable silliness of two girls finding themselves, learning how to kiss & rob banks etc.Or, with Hayek and Cruz simply being women of their own age in the era, more experienced, with a bit of character history (not just "educated in Europe" and "a farmer's sweet daughter")...The ladies aren't that touching as just little ingenues anymore (and nothing wrong with that! )... and so we are left with just a male fantasy, boring for this girl viewer, where these two gorgeous, much seen actresses are pretending they are sweet sixteen, bit ditzy and oh so not-threatening.Pretty half-hearted, for two "bandidas". Too girly for most guys, too "guy-y" for most girls...

Bandiadas is Strictly b-movie material, but that doesn't mean it has no spirit. If nothing else, one is liable to get a kick out of Hollywood's two hottest Spanish actresses sharing screen time, wielding knives and pistolas, and playing off each other with one liners like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The end result is a dumb, but cute comedic westernBandidas makes up for its lack of brains and creativity, with satire. It keeps the movie from being dull or obnoxious (generally) but I think it is safe to say that the movie could've been funnier. Robert Rodriguez would be very much at home behind the camera on this one. Under such circumstances, Badidas would not just be spiced up but may have even been clever. On another matter, It is a wonder how something that features names like Hayek, Cruz, writer Luc Besson, and even Sam Shepard (renowned American play write and co-star of The Right Stuff), did not get major commercial release. At any rate, Bandidas remains silly but is amusing enough to make it worth a peek (assuming it catches your attention)

Pairing Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz in a campy, comic buddy western turns out to be a mildly amusing ploy, but I just wish this 2006 film had more true grit and a sharper sense of the characters than the screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen exhibits. As vividly beautiful as the two actresses are, together they are physically and temperamentally too similar to be credible opposites. They are both compelling enough presences on screen, especially playing such self-sufficient women, but the lack of contrast makes it hard to think they are little more than two halves of the same character. They are guided by first-time filmmakers Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, which may account for the lack of visual flair that Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino could have brought to the story. Regardless, the pacing is lightning-quick, and the cartoonish touches provide the requisite popcorn entertainment.Set in turn-of-the-last-century Mexico, two women are leading separate lives - Sara Sandoval is the pampered, worldly daughter of a wealthy landowner, and Maria Alvarez is the poor farm girl who has relied on her horse sense and keen marksmanship. Their paths cross when seedy, bloodthirsty robber baron Tyler Jackson steals from their respective fathers and kills them both. Naturally, Sara and Maria seek revenge but must settle their own class-conflict squabbling first (via the inevitable cat-fighting scene). With the help of grizzled former bank robber Bill Buck, Sara and Maria become "Las Bandidas", Mexico's version of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Things get complicated when Jackson hires New York criminologist Quentin Cooke to track down the women, but you can probably guess that Quentin succumbs to their ample charms. The script throws in some interesting economic theory discussions, but mostly flimsy excuses are made to insert some silly scenes like having the women dress as saloon prostitutes out of the Moulin Rouge to seduce Quentin. Other than the mandatory gunplay, the elaborate stunts include a Tarzan-like use of a swinging chain, the creative use of ice skates during a heist, a sol-mo action scene that feels stolen from "The Matrix", and a paean to the famous river-jumping scene in "Butch Cassidy".There is no doubt that Cruz and Hayek are having a good time, though they are hardly stretched here. Even though they bond in a predicable way, it would have been more interesting to insert some ambiguity along the lines of "Thelma and Louise". With his bedraggled Marilyn Manson-like hair bested only by Javier Bardem's pageboy in "No Country for Old Men", Dwight Yoakam is not quite as menacing a presence as Walker. Steve Zahn also seems comparatively passive as Quentin, even though he looks appropriately dazed in the seduction scene. Sam Shepard is barely in the film as Buck, but he makes his brief sequence count with reliable authority. The extras on the 2007 DVD are sparse – a superficial four-minute making-of featurette, the original theatrical trailer, and a commentary track by Hayek and Cruz, has entertainment value but not too much insight into the production itself.