This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It's not clear when you look at the cover but it's a drama – comedy that takes places in Germany just before the World War Two. As the Reich had ties with Franco's Spain, the story is about a movie co-production which happens in Berlin, so at the heart of evil.At first, I wasn't convinced because I don't really like movies about movies. But, here, the fact that the crew arrives in Nazi Germany colors everything: At the beginning, the differences are funny but the more they stay, the more they discover that the place is just like hell. They face an unchecked power so it's hard to cope with its degenerate whims: anti-Semitism, sexual harassment…I found the movie bright as the crew is split to answer: some care about what happens, other prefer to focus on their art and avoid politics. But finally, closing eyes is a bad choice because fighting an abusive power (as building one) is only the sum of individual choices. So as soon as you have got an opportunity, you have to react because as one said, after they have taken all your neighbors, nobody is left to help you when they come to take you! Here, this dramatic conclusion is well directed as what happens to Penélope slowly affect all the crew and beyond: Slowly but surely, the tension rises and becomes almost suffocating. But, all along, the crew still find the courage to find funny lines as to take a breath.Maybe the only regret is that's it's a fiction and not based on true facts but at least, it gives a good lesson of how to behave in bad times and just for that, it's worth the praise.With this movie, i end my collection of Penélope's DVD. I just thank her for all the good moments she brought me: she is a talented actress, an honest woman and as she is faithful to her roots, she really made me like Spanish culture and just that, is an astounding feat! Hasta la vista, Baby !

Penelope Cruz is so good in this movie she carries it; you really want to see what happens next. She has some great musical numbers and some excellent dramatic scenes. I also found the set design and scenery superior, as well as just the visuals who contrast the small, swarthy Spaniards against the Aryan ideal. The DVD I rented had two versions, in Castillian Spanish and Mexican Spanish, with English sub-titles, which was interesting when the characters spoke in German, as that was not translated unless a translator actually did it in the film. Actually there was even a little Russian. The supporting cast gets a little slapstick at times, but I found the film well worth it as a Cruz vehicle--she is quite a beautiful actress. 8/10.

"The Girl of Your Dreams" is a dramady which manages neither comedy nor drama and falls on its face with a nonstory screenplay which is little more than a whole lot of bantering and busy work. Telling of a Spanish film company which goes to Berlin during the Nazification of Germany (circa 1938) where the star, Macarena (Cruz), becomes the unwilling object of affection of Nazi propagandist and womanizer Joseph Goebbels, this flick is flat and seemingly devoid of purpose. Although the film has a lot to offer from a solid cast and good production value, its story is devoid of all that stuff we go to movies to see. Requiring two hours of subtitle reading, "The Girl of Your Dreams" is one very well made dud which is almost certain to leave you cold. (C+)

It all begins wonderfully, in this new Fernando Trueba´s movie.It seems to be original and funny, a nice critic to Hitler and his nazi followers, with many good acting, and of course, a fine direction. But I expected a little bit more... At the end, all I remember was: ¨my God, Penélope Cruz, the pregnant nun who appears in ´Todo Sobre Mi Madre´, de Pedro Almodóvar, is so beautiful!¨ With her big and lovely eyes, she is ¨la niña de tus ojos¨