Paul Rodriguez plays aspiring TV comic Paul Rivera (AKA Pablo) to his Mexican - American family whose whole enchilada is ethnic humor poking fun at Mexicans - which gives his proud father a bad case of indigestion.
Paul is stopped for speeding on his way to entertain at a Presidential dinner, and the police find his story hard to swallow when they find him wearing sneakers, carrying the wrong ID and packing his prop knife.
The arrival of Sylvia's attractive dinner guest provides an opportunity for the men to show who really rules the roost in the battling Rivera household.