Wow that movie looks terrible, once again great review.

my god and i thought what pain was like........ :(

I read the text :unsure: What a crap movie!

Wow that was a horrible looking movie... thanks CS for enduring the pain watching the movie in order to bring us a good review
-Shark

Oh....my...god...this is terrible, I can't believe you sat through this. Kudos to you man.

Nice to see one my favourite reviews from the Snob up on the site.

Sorry to tell you but half of them died, and the other 2 (DIDI and DEDE) have a TV show...
here they where the top of television...sorry =/

i'm feeling embarrassed just for remembering that,they STILL MAKE MOVIES, AND THAT STILL SUCK!
And they do the same old things...

the real shit movies?
for start
Robin hood based on:

"Robin Hood, o Trapalhão da Floresta" - Robin Hood, the tramp of the forest 1974

"O Mistério de Robin Hood"-the mystery of Robin Hood 1990

Planet of the apes:
"O Trapalhão no Planalto dos Macacos"

the three musketeers:
"Os Três Mosqueteiros Trapalhões"

and the 2 movies that STILL some tv station play...

"Os Trapalhões na Terra dos Monstros" 1989
"A Princesa Xuxa e os Trapalhões" 1989

i'm Brazilian and i say "i'm sorry for sharing this things with the world...we all have skeletons in the closet"
:S

Ya their movies sucks, BUT it meant to be like that.

I never thought I'd say this ... but what is Chewbacca smokin'?

[color=#bd527b] Its not just that you had to endure this to watch it one time. And breaking it up was extremely smart to do. But you had to put up with it longer than its run time even with breaking it up to edit this together.

Are you sure you don't need rehab or at least some strong drugs after that?[/color]

I really don't know what to say, wow

HAL 9000 tripping balls..... that made me laugh so hard i had to pause the video

Have anyone seen the argentinian ET rip off?

It never ceases to amaze we the ammount of crap you can sit through. Even on that note you get 5 stars... you watch the crap so I don't have to :)

(But it's way better to watch crappy movies and have fun :))

I've gotta be honest, but I don't think anyone can blame this movie for being bad, because really, I think that's what it's trying to be really. A Bad movie, might seem implausible, why would anyone make a bad movie, but judging by the amount of movies these guys have made, ripping off other movies with 4 guys trying to be silly.

I will say this, if you're going to watch a movie with the Trapalhões, this is what you're gonna get, can't expect anything else. It's not trying to be good, or entertaining, or have a good story, it's just this crap and that's it.

my two cents for what it's worth.

Wow. You are far braver to suffer that movie than me. Oh geez that was bad.

I guess like many of my own childhood favourite movies/characters, Jar Jar will be one of those things that kids who saw the movies when it came out will grow up and re-watch the movies and completely understand why their parents and all adults seemed to hate Jar Jar and want him tortured until he dies.

well, there must be someone to entirely disagree with the review, and i think that's me.
i'm brazilian too, and, well, it's a good review, if you're not brazilian, you don't know anything about brazilian 70's and 80's culture and you've only made a wikipedia research about the Trapalhões.

let's make it clear, i don't like the Trapalhões. that's because i'm not a child anymore. it's supposed to be a movie for kids, and, hell, it did make success on that market, all of their movies, until now (yeah, didi and dede are still making movies, more serious movies, but still in comedy).
but to review seriously a movie made for kids is like trying to find plot holes in, i don't know, THE FEAKING SMURFS.

another fact: they ARE trying to make a bad movie here, and it seems to me they did it. it doesn't look suspicious that all the crash scenes are made in slowmo? or that they've used the film rotation to make jokes? or, hell, that they used the SAME FRIGGIN JOKES at the ENTIRE movie?

well, i don't know if this was supposed to be a serious review or not, but it sure seems like it. and if you're gonna review seriously something cultural based and oldschool, please, try to think about the people you might be offending.
and think: if i, presuming i've never seen the stooges, would make a review pointing every single mistake and lame jokes that they've done (intentionally done, btw), screaming at the top of my lungs that they are awful and they must be retarded, would it be fair? would that upset you?
because i was raised seeing and enjoying the Trapalhões, and to listen someone insulting them and remaining silent is just unbearable.

[quote=lucianoratamero] well, there must be someone to entirely disagree with the review, and i think that's me.
i'm brazilian too, and, well, it's a good review, if you're not brazilian, you don't know anything about brazilian 70's and 80's culture and you've only made a wikipedia research about the Trapalhões.

let's make it clear, i don't like the Trapalhões. that's because i'm not a child anymore. it's supposed to be a movie for kids, and, hell, it did make success on that market, all of their movies, until now (yeah, didi and dede are still making movies, more serious movies, but still in comedy).
but to review seriously a movie made for kids is like trying to find plot holes in, i don't know, THE FEAKING SMURFS.

another fact: they ARE trying to make a bad movie here, and it seems to me they did it. it doesn't look suspicious that all the crash scenes are made in slowmo? or that they've used the film rotation to make jokes? or, hell, that they used the SAME FRIGGIN JOKES at the ENTIRE movie?

well, i don't know if this was supposed to be a serious review or not, but it sure seems like it. and if you're gonna review seriously something cultural based and oldschool, please, try to think about the people you might be offending.
and think: if i, presuming i've never seen the stooges, would make a review pointing every single mistake and lame jokes that they've done (intentionally done, btw), screaming at the top of my lungs that they are awful and they must be retarded, would it be fair? would that upset you?
because i was raised seeing and enjoying the Trapalhões, and to listen someone insulting them and remaining silent is just unbearable.[/quote]

Well, most of my arguments are there. I myself only whatched a small fraction of the Trapalhões franchise (you refer to them as "Tramps") but gooffy and crappy as they myght have been, they are a fond part of my childhood.

Sure, I wouldn't watch a Didi movie (the group is disbanded and half of it dead, but the leader still makes movies, usually alongside his kid daughter) nowdays, but I could indeed re-whatch any of the ones I've whatched as a kid and feel as a kid!

And since you unwillingly steped on a LOT of brazilians' childhood, I feel sorry for what's coming to ya in these commentaries... :P

But I digress. Not only are the Trapalhões kid-oriented movie/tv show, with parody and B-movie elements, you gotta understand most of their activity was in the late years of the Brazilian Militar Dictatorship. Not very easy making entertainment without the risk to go to "jail" for being a communist (even if you aren't). They're one of the few lucky survivors!

That (and semi-porn movies) were the highest point of brazilian cinema of that time. It gotten a lot better. Not good enough, but a lot better, with even some good movies every once in a while. Mostly comedies...

I don't think alot of people get that Brad actually LIKES alot of the movies he reviews. The Cinema Snob really IS just a character most of the time.

So this is what happens when you take a movie COMPLETELY out of context and review it...

As my Brazilian fellows already said, two of the "Tramps" already passed away about 20 years ago, and the other two are still around doing the same kind of thing. Even though now they are not as popular as they used to be, their slapstick and tongue-in-cheek humor is still a cherished memory for many people that are now on their 30s or 40s.

Just to have an idea, I'd suggest a simple search on YouTube, but I doubt you'd do it after watching this movie.

I wouldn't ask for you to be any more condescending on your review (after all you're the Cinema Snob, right?), but I do understand the feelings of other Brazilians about it.

Now almost 30 years after these movies' heyday, even I cannot stand 90 minutes of it. But as I still cherish my memories of when I was a 5 to 8 years-old kid, anxious to go to the movies to see their next movie. I guess now I would choose not to watch it again in order not to be disappointed.

If you're still reading, let me defend a little "Os Trapalhões" for their merits of taking the Brazilian countryside circus culture to the mainstream media. Each of them represented a different stereotype of simple people, from the Northeastern Region, or Sao Paulo, or Minas Gerais or Rio, and that is one of the secrets of their success: they were the funny guy that everyone knew on TV, the public could see themselves on TV and cinema.

More than 120 million people saw their movies on theaters from 1965 to 1991, period when the original members were active. In this period Brazilian cinema was pure shit: half of it was pretentious artsy, half of it porn. The only movies that families could watch together were "Trapalhões"' movies. At the Top 10 box-offices of Brazilian cinema of all time, seven are "tramps" movies.

Judging the technical aspects of the movie, that I can give you. It was a movie done for TV with what the Globo channel could offer those times, when the government wouldn't allow many imports to come to Brazil.

But their humor is totally incomprehensible if you take it out of context, even the slapstick. I can understand your frustration, but I'm sorry to say that you lack the background to understand it. Saying this movie sucks nowadays is as easy as saying that "The Drifters" from Japan suck if you don't speak Japanese, or Chespirito's sketches suck if you're not Mexican or at least Latin-American, or SNL is bullshit if you don't understand English.

By the way, even now we still have in Brazil the expression "American joke" to refer to a really not-funny joke. I guess it says something about cultural relativism when talking about humor, right?

I saw a lot of really terrible cheap-ass kid's shows as a little kid, and do you know what I feel when I see them now? Terror. Far from giving me warm feelings of nostalgia, these things traumatized me somehow.

WHoa!! 6 months to stomach it!! OMG!! Was this bad!!

A really bad movie indeed.

But i beg you all to keep in mind that this was never meant to be a serious movie.

I do not like the way this video describes this horrible production as "brazilian Star Wars". It's not like someone tried to make a good movie based on Star Wars.

It's just a bad, unfunny (does that word exist?), and really low budget satire that was meant to deliver childish and goofy humor for really young children.

We watched this at a birthday party a few years ago. My friend got it because the guy who was supposed to send us Turkish Star Wars goofed on shipping, so he sent this along with Turkish. The pain will never be gone.

I'll be honest, I'd enjoy watching this ripoff... if just to laugh at how bad it is. I'm not too fond of trippy movies of the ~70's though, so I guess I will not chase after this one.

I feel your pain...I've seen a lot of crappy old movies too, but this...I don't know if you can even *watch* this thing alone. You'd have to be watching it with some friends, trash-talking it and getting progressively more drunk by the minute.

Great review! And here I thought Turkish Star Wars was bad. All that's missing is Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill making an appearance as Jabba The Hutt and his Twilek assistant.

Don't you dare to talk trash about Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill.

ZUKO?! Does he firebend too in the movie? :woohoo:

Reminds me of a movie review I saw on Something Awful. It was the same shit as this, but it was only one unfunny comedian, and it was a rip-off of Star Trek. Specifically, the original series episode "The Man Trap."

[quote=Skinjob]I feel your pain...I've seen a lot of crappy old movies too, but this...I don't know if you can even *watch* this thing alone. You'd have to be watching it with some friends, trash-talking it and getting progressively more drunk by the minute.

Great review! And here I thought Turkish Star Wars was bad. All that's missing is Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill making an appearance as Jabba The Hutt and his Twilek assistant.[/quote]

They DID meet with Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill back in '84
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SI22Sot2tiQ