Bandidas | 
| Directors: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Ronning
Actors: Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Denis Arndt
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 7322
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2240318D
UPC: 024543403111
EAN: 0024543403111
ASIN: B000K7VHNW
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: January 9, 2007
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Product Description
Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek play south-of-the-border Thelma and Louise in this comedy/action film. Fed up with being pushed around, the ladies take up bank-robbing and find new leases on life.
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First screened in Europe and scheduled for limited release in the U.S., Bandidas can now be viewed by all fans of the visually stunning duo, Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek. Set in Mexico 1888, Bandidas  is a Western spoof about two women, Maria Alvarez (Penelope Cruz) and Sara Sandoval (Salma Hayek), who seek to avenge the tragedies befallen both their fathers under robber baron, Tyler Jackson (Dwight Yoakam). Jackson, employed by the Bank of New York, is sent to Mexico to buy land and open banks to the detriment of local culture. Jackson kills Sara's corrupt father, Don Diego, while bandits burn down Maria's home. The two ladies band together for the community's cause. Under the tutelage of Bill Buck (Sam Sheperd), Sara and Maria develop bank robbery skills. When criminologist, Quentin Cooke (Steve Zahn), hunts them, they convert him with their strong moral sense and good looks. Like any Thelma and Louise-ish tale of women who take charge, Maria and Sara are foil characters who eventually become an invincible, sisterly team. This comedy is built around their bickering. For Sara, with European education and penchant of designer clothing, Maria is a hick who lacks refinement, yet Maria, horse whisperer, can fire a gun. The slapstick is overkill, for example when Sara wonders whether a bandana is Gucci or Prada. However, viewers will love Penelope Cruz on horseback and the two actresses practice-kissing their foe in a brothel. Bandidas is a light film with some laughs and mucho sex appeal. -- Trinie Dalton Beyond Bandidas 
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 Bandidas June 1, 2009
Anatolii Semeniv (Novoselivka, Donetsk Reg. UKRAINE)
I was expecting nothing from the "Bandidas" because I watched this sole movie with Penelope Cruz participation. But I bought this CD in case of the unsuccessful purchase of the other CD which I obliged to buy by simple logic. The fact is that I took part in competition "OscarMania" and have guessed right Penelope Cruz will have got the "Oscar" for secondary role in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Concerning "Bandidas". I like this movie. The one contains tragedy and comedy, "lyrics" and educational supplies... In the final analysis I wouldn't like to accent on a mishmash, but on the good play of two nice-looking artistes.
cheesy female fun May 2, 2009
Shawna (seattle, WA)
Not a movie you want to watch everyday. Best saved for days when you just want something entertaining. Having said that... it was good fun seeing the females do the gun slinging, wall climbing, knife throwing, and kissing training. Good fun. :)
Bandidas......... February 4, 2009
blackaciddevil (in the USA somewhere.....)
I'm a big fan of Salma Hayek. I'm also a diehard fan of Westerns(love 'em, can't get enough of 'em). When I found out that Salma Hayek was in one(a campy one, at that) with Penelope Cruz, I decided to get the movie and watch it. Besides, like most of the movies I've found, it was in a bargain bin. It was great!!!
Maria Alvarez and Sarah Sandoval are two mexican women who seek to avenge their fathers' deaths by Tyler Jackson. Jackson, who's employed by the Bank of New York, is sent to Mexico to buy land and open banks. Thing is, he shoots down any one who opposes him from doing so. The two ladies join together and start robbing the banks owned by the Bank of New York. So, Quentin Cooke, a forensic criminalogist, goes on the lookout for them...only to be converted to their cause in an effort to bring down Jackson.
Directed by Espen Sandberg & Joachim Roenning, the film stars: Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Dwight Yoakam, Sam Shepard, Steve Zahn, and Denis Arndt. It's a film that doesn't take itself too seriously with a good bit of light humor and, as most of the reviewers here will agree, plenty of sex appeal.
Definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of Salma Hayek or Penelope Cruz.
 With gorgeous vistas, "Bandidas" is a fun to watch! January 26, 2009
Roberto Frangie (Leon, Gto. Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Bandidas" is set during the Mexican Revolution...
Cruz stars as Maria Alvarez, a gun-happy superstitious peasant who learns that her land has been sold to Tyler Jackson (Dwight Yoakam) by a corrupt Mexican banker Don Diego Sandoval (Ismael 'East' Carlo) until some higher authority intercedes...
Maria always knew what she wants and she always knew she feels, however when she dared to accuse Don Carlos as a corrupt and a thief, as a result of that her father is wounded in his ranch and his house is burned to the ground...
Sara Sandoval (Salma Hayek), who has been away at school in Europe for ten years, has left as a girl and came home as a woman...The only problem of Don Diego is now to convince her to stay... But Sandoval is poisoned following a real estate agreement with the avaricious Jackson...
So the two girls--joined by destiny--decide to be trained by Sam Shepard, to shoot well and to learn the rules of robbing banks... So they teamed up to get the people back on their land, and to come up with a plan, something that will benefit the people and destroy these murderers...
But after Quentin Cooke (Steve Zahn) an expert from New York City is kidnapped by the two she-monsters, the ruthless Jackson brought in more reinforcements, real killers hunting the two girls like animals... So every bank was seen more guarded now... Sara saw herself desperate, running out of ideas... Inside of herself she knew that she was raised to be a spoiled lady, not a renegade...
Penelope and Salma have great chemistry, and they are totally adorable together... The film has many memorable moments: the church catfight; the horse climbing a ladder; the two beauties in prostitute red cloth; Hayek getting off her chest her bloody corset which has been squeezing her gut her whole life; Salma teaching Penelope how to kiss a man right and how to capture that nuance...
beautiful bandits November 25, 2008
R. L. Glueck (Cleveland, OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perhaps a robberyby two beautifulbandits is not aspainful as the con-ventional types.At any rate the twogirls, PenelopeCruz and Salma Hayek, are out toavenge the attackson their fathers by villain DwightYoakam.That they aresuccessful makes foran unusual storyline.Aided by crimi-nologist Steve Zahn,the two Mexican gun-slingers foiltheir enemy Joiningthe fun as theirmentor is ex-bankrobber Sam Shepard.Like all revengefilms, this opus hasterrific audienceappeal .
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