Of course the whole thing was dubbed in post but the actors on the set who could speak English were speaking that in their scenes (though the production did a pretty good job matching up the lip movements in most scenes regardless of which language dub you are hearing). It was the scenes where the actors were presumably not English speakers where the English dubbing was so ridiculous - and different - that it was laughable. I single out the scene where Ian Sera is in bed with the woman who won't stop moaning. (Ian can speak English but I don't think the actress could because they were clearly talking in Spanish while doing that scene.) In the Spanish dub, he says something like, "Why do you women always cry?" In the English dub, that gets changed to "Anyone would think you're in bed with Chainsaw Charlie." When she begs him to stay, she says something like, "You're leaving at this hour? Oh, Kendall." In English, that becomes, "Oh, honey. Where are you going? What if you gag me? I wouldn't make any noise then." "Bad chop suey!" was another English-only treat.
The American actors, for the most part, seemed to be treating the thing like a joke (particularly Lynda and Paul, though I don't think it's his voice in any version) while the people who did the Spanish looping for them seemed to take it a lot more seriously. Although I like the Spanish music score a lot better, it's much funnier in English.
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