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A little budget but amusing Mariano Ozores movie parodying a botcher bank heist
ma-cortes11 September 2022
A likable and fun parody about bank robbery sub-genre with offbeat as well as sympathetic characterizations. A disconcerting group of unlucky people carry out a heist with unexpected consequences . This is an amusing and funny comedy with several fun and hilarious set pieces , social critique on economical crisis , lots of laughs and anything else . It deals with a beloved group of characters , as a band of poor underdogs (Andrés Pajares, Juanito Navarro , Antonio Ozores) planning a bank robbery that goes awry .The motley group of bungling people join and all of them decide to rob a Madrid bank . The problems start when they try to make their plans reality and realize that they are taking a fortune of various millions of pesetas. The gang led by Aniceto (Andrés Pajares) who secretly has an accomplice , Facundo (Fernando Esteso) working in the bank and all of them deciding to execute a hold-up . The band is formed by Pedro, El Tuerto ( Antonio Ozores) , Aniceto (Pajares) with his pregnant wife (Paloma Hurtado) about to give birth and an elderly grandfather (Antonio Ozores) who even brings his grandson Juanito . Along the way, appearing at the bank their girlfriends and lovers (Azucena Hernandez , Beatriz Escudero, Mabel Escaño). They'll use replica guns , and all will be smooth and rapid . But events get worse , when police to be aware the hold-up and surrounding the bank .

This agreeable picture made in similar style to classic ¨José Maria Forqué's Atraco a las Tres¨, concerning a hold-up pulled off by a bunch of unfortunate as well as bungling people , but things go awry . There are some nice jokes in the film and the cast , playing eccentric characters , make a cosy fit . It takes a simple concept , a peculiar robbing , being schemed , planned and proceeded by botcher people and in the wake of Italian vintage films as ¨Rufufu¨ (1956) , a great Comedia all'Italiana by Mario Monicelli ; this latter was a brilliant parody to French production titled ¨Rififi¨(1956) by Jules Dassin . ¨Todos al suelo (1982)¨ is a comical and sometimes non-sense account of a bunch of lower class people from the personal , social , cultural , and economic perspective , because needing all of them , urgently, amount of money to resolve their problematic lives . This film packs extreme craziness, strange situations , swift frames , twists and turns ; but it especially contains catching touches of humor and irony . Cheesy as well as funny screenplay by prolific writer/director Mariano Ozores ; being mostly set into a bank office and adapted to Spanish characteristics by that time , including film title : Todos al suelo , regarding 1981 coup d'etat with Guardia Civil Tejero shouting their sentence at the Spanish Parliament . The flick interweaves fun comedy along with a social criticism about the Spanish economic crisis in the Eighties and a lot of fun . This film is made to entertain , and this movie , especially for a good time and a pleasant entertainment . The flick contains silly incidents , fun plot twists , tongue-in-cheek , grotesque situations and above all , humor in the most disconcerting heist ever made . Sitting in a strange middle ground between the completely absurd and the stylishly cool . This film moves in fits and starts most of which would be desirable and some moments of enjoyment and others quite a few ridiculous . The characters are quite odd , outlandish and geek and the film races on at incredible speed . Filmmaker Ozores delivers a passable comedy in which the main and support cast are pretty well . The main attraction resides in its excellent cast in which stands out Andrés Pajares , Fernando Esteso , Juanito Navarro and Antonio Ozores, all of them playing in their peculiar styles ; alongside showing up a lot of familar faces , such as : Valeriano Andrés , Alfonso del Real , Azucena Hernandez , Mabel Escaño, Paloma Hurtado , Rafaela Aparicio, Adrián Ortega, José Yepes and José Carabias .

The picture was professionaly written and directed by Mariano Ozores . Mariano is a craftsman filmmaker and writer , in fact he wrote the fun screenplay , he recently won a Goya Award (2016) to his long and fruitful career . Ozores made with these two famous comedians , -Fernando Esteso and Andres Pajares- several films , as they had various years partnership between the two leads , such as ¨Agitese Antes Usarla¨ , ¨Al Este Del Oeste¨, ¨Los Liantes¨, ¨Los Energeticos¨, ¨La Lola Lleva Al Huerto¨ , ¨El Currante¨ , ¨El Hijo Del Cura¨...these films are filled with humor that still holds up , especially for those not easily offended ; being sometimes cheesy and gross-out with numerous naughty and picaresque situations such as sex jokes , adulteries , crazy events , nudism , absurd situations , jealousy , and erotic scenes . Plus , they partially reflected the mood and the reality of Spain in the immediate Post-Franco era , dealing with politic juncture about the post-Franquismo in similar style to other films from this period . Ozores has a prolific career , as writer and as director , especially in comedy genre such as : Disparate Nacional , Tahiti's Girl , Brujas Magicas , Los Presuntos , Cuatro Mujeres Y Un Lío , Tío ¿De Verdad Vienen De París? , Alcalde Por Elección , Ellas Los Prefieren... Locas , El Apolítico , Jenaro El De Los 14 , Manolo La Nuit , El Abuelo Tiene plan , La Llamaban La Madrina , La Graduada , Venta Por Pisos and many others . Being his ordinary actors , the followings : Alfredo Landa , Lina Morgan , Paco Martínez Soria , Antonio Ozores , Jose Luis Ozores , Juanito Navarro.
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