Luis Valdez's original Corridos (1984) was a revue of dramatized musical vignettes based on traditional and contemporary Mexican folk ballads about passion, insurrection, and crime. In this completely new and even more entertaining Corridos Remix, written by him in collaboration with Kinan Valdez who also directs it, Luis Valdez performs as well, in his endearingly cheeky style of earthy wordplay, the narrating role of a professor of ethnomusicology who joins with his granddaughter (Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, a performer of great charm and versatility, dramatically and musically) in a search for her missing father, the professor's son, a wild and crazy, rock singer (played with raucous vitality by Fernando Vega).

This sketchy framing tale weaves into itself about a dozen or so storytelling...