Review of Amigos...

Amigos... (2011)
6/10
Bemusing and agreeable comedy in which three friends compete for a surprising wager
8 May 2018
This amusing film deals with a strong relationship of 4 friends from childhood , Ernesto Alterio, Diego Martin, Alberto Lozano , Esquinas . The dim-witted Alterio , married to the ambitious Goya Toledo, is a wealthy executive , Diego Martin is a womanizer who lives still with his mother and Lozano is a parking attendant. When one of them dies , the millionaire Ramon Esquinas, his will is open to reveal he has left them his complete state , a big amount of money : 17 million Euros . But they have to participate an embarrassing betting , the ultimate wager game , being planned by their old childhood companion and nowsadays deceased . As their old friendship about to be tested when the absurd competition takes place . And the bet to be won the friend who spends the longest time in TV shows. As they take part in popular shows such as Big Brother in which Alterio posing as a travesti and the philandering Diego Martin at a prime-time reality show disguising as a distressed Peruvian young. All of them fighting strongly and only one will become the winner and heir of a hugely estimated fortune

Funny and amusing comedy with a fun premise , as 3 friends fighting each other to win a daring betting . This results in a nutty spiral, mayhem, confusion , crazy competitiveness and a surprising finale. Trio protagonists are pretty well, Alterio Martin and Lozano , all of them are fine comedians. Ernesto Alterio has performed a lot of comedies as Rivales , Incautos, El sueño de Ivan, Al otro lado de la cama, Quien mato a Bambi , Cuarteto de Habana, Años Babaros , Semen . While Diego Martin has played comedy as Dias de cine, Una hora mas en Canarias, Web therapy , but also terror as Rec 3 and drama as Los Borgia or Velvet. Along with a nice plethora of secondaries as Goya Toledo, Manuela Velasco, Gorka Lasaosa , among others . Besides, brief cameos of famous people as Carolina Cerezuela , Carlos Moya and Sara Carbonero.

The motion picture was well written and directed by Borja Manso and Marcos Cabota . Both of whom are good writers, producers and filmmakers . They have made shorts, documentary such as 11M , Real la pelicula, and I am your father. This one resulted to be their first feature film and it was winner Siver Bizinaga , Audiencia Award for the two directors .
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