Culpa Tuya Review: Who Do We Blame For the Lost Spark?
Culpa Mia, or My Fault, is a story about step-siblings falling in love. This automatically makes it a questionable premise. However, the chemistry between Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara as Noah and Nick is enough to make you look past this detail. However, in Culpa Tuya, or Your Fault, unfortunately, the chemistry isn’t enough to excuse some glaring narrative issues.
My Fault is fun because it doesn’t seem to take itself seriously. It embraces the soap opera nature and over-the-topness of the entire story. We have fun watching it because it seems like everyone involved does the same.
Your Fault loses the fun and seems to take itself way more seriously than it should. It also feels like it’s going nowhere, and that’s ultimately what happens.
The whole movie feels just like a setup for the third and presumably final film, Nuestra Culpa, or Our Fault.
The biggest issue in Your Fault is the characters who were charming in their quest to deny their growing attraction and feelings become insufferable in this film.
Nick and Noah constantly make mistakes that don’t even seem logical. It’s easy to assume viewers are supposed to excuse these bad deeds and misconducts because they are young.
And with youth comes a sort of reckless arrogance that we can understand. However, it just feels too silly especially as they behave in predictable and cliche ways. Even if you can forgive Nick and Noah for being fools in love, irrational, and immature, the same courtesy can’t be afforded to the adults in Your Fault.
Many of them easily become cartoon villains in this movie, especially Nick’s mother.
She never shows any signs of likability. Everything she does has a motive.
Characters are best, especially the evil ones, when they have layers. Nick’s mother feels one-dimensional. Nick and Noah’s parents also become unlikable in Your Fault.
They seemed sweet and loving in My Fault, but now seem just as shady as the other adults in this series. That’s an unfortunate development because they were enjoyable in the first film.
Soap operas often thrive on over-the-top behavior and storylines. The My Fault series is clearly embracing that type of storytelling but it does it well in the first film but misses the mark in the sequel.
It doesn’t become a soap opera in the entertaining way that so many adore but in the way that causes ridicule.
I really enjoyed My Fault, so I was looking forward to Your Fault but this one doesn’t seem to understand what made the first one charming and entertaining.
It wasn’t all the sex, that’s for sure. This one is a lot heavier on the sex, which may appeal to many but the will-they-won’t-they made it fun. Now that they definitely will and it feels a bit too much.
The film also overcomplicates things with new love interests that are not that interesting and an ex with a vendetta and possible psychotic behavior. This all could have been entertaining if the film didn’t take these plots so seriously.
The best part of Your Fault is the racing scenes, and unfortunately, there aren’t enough of them.
Despite the downgrade from the first film, the My Fault series can still end on a high. It just needs to embrace some of the elements that made the first film entertaining in a low-stakes, kind of trashy fun way.
Since these films are based on a book series, the issues of the second movie could be the fault of the book but hopefully, the book and third movie resolve the issues with this story for a satisfying conclusion.
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Culpa Tuya is available to stream on Prime Video.
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