traveller-samurai Reviews

Por mis bigotes (2015)

A mediocre treat on self-confidence fable

[5/10 · 11 May 2017]

A elemental school student is being unnoticed in the school, no one cares of him, except for his two friends that also comes unnoticed. Then one day he got a mustache, and, while at first hand is bullied, suddenly becomes a celebrity and attracts the attention of the 10,000 mustaches club.

The story tries to relies on a self-confidence story where you can see that initially the mustache is a burden and then something that brings him a lot of confidence, that, at some point put him in a top position in school but giving him the risk of losing what he really values.

While the idea sounds original, at some moment you would think about taking on a social cliché (hipster people leaving mustaches and beard because it look cool) applied to an unexpected element of society and put it to take the most laughs at possible, a joke that ends so quick that you want to skip the scenes just to see what happens if the kid decides to shave.

And with the shave, the movie goes along with the mustache, a bad resolution of the film, that is not showing the true idea behind the film makes the viewer to try to forget everything on this movie. As expected, the character goes downhill, but the way he gets his most valuable things he love to be saved turns to be badly executed.

Do not think even to put it if is the only movie you have in your tablet.

The Misfits Club (2014)

Sincerely a badly translated copy paste of the Breakfast Club

[5/10 · 31 May 2015]

Take the Breakfast Club, add some elements of modern juvenile novels like The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Fault is in Our Stars and you got El Club de los Incomprendidos. I am still wanting to know how Blue Jeans, the writer of the novel where he based the film, was able to keep free without being punished to copy elements of so much stories to write his very empty story.

While the acting is, so far, regular, the story contains so much elements of those stories (and even, Life is Beautiful) and put them so much sugar, that makes you want to come back to the classic of John Hughes and hug it strongly, because El Club de los Incomprendidos destroys practically all the good things that The Breakfast Club had.

Su excelencia (1967)

A still actual vision of Mexican politics.

[8/10 · 30 June 2008]

Cantinflas made a nice history about the political situation of the world during Cold War focus also on Mexican issues. He relates the political concepts as the looks of a Mexican plate called "tamales" (as long as there are red sauce, green sauce and sweet tamales, you can imagine which political sides fits with the flavor), and also shows the vices of the Mexican bureaucracy.

He played a little with the Cuban Revolution and also gave us a laugh over the spy movements of each side in order to try to get his vote to their side.

But the most important moment is his speech, where, instead of giving his vote to any side, he asks the world to let any country to decide freely their destiny, as long as he wishes a world of peace. His last worlds are strumming.

"A man said 'love each other' but we changed to 'war each other' ".

Yes, he can be a hippie in the middle of the U.N. but his message was tender and shape at the same time. A lot of people still things that this comedian would be a great President if he wanted to be it.

La caperucita roja (1960)

A good choice for kids, but you must see it in Spanish

[8/10 · 14 August 2006]

I am disagree with some comments of the users of this movie because of the very bad dubbing of the movie. We have to remember that, for a Mexican movie, this one is on the standards of this time (beginning of the sixties) and it had to be see it more as a theatrical way than a movie.

The most appreciated character on this movie and the next two had been made is Manuel "Loco" Valdes because he was in his top moment as comedian and actor, so he develop a very funny and unoffensive wolf that became the pivotal of this and the next two movies.

Maybe for me, this movie is now not more than a lot of sugar on screen (currently I am 27), but for the time I saw it (around 20 years before), this series of movies became a very nice experience to see on Mexican TV.

This movie is good for kids that wants to imagine that the characters are real even that they look so unreal on screen, but forget to hear it dubbed in English, the Spanish version is better.