La biblia en pasta(1984) results to be a spoof of the 1966 film ¨Bible in the beginning¨ by John Huston, in fact there're similar bibical episodes. It covers various Biblical facts an open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, and a demon who tempts Eva speaks with a very marked Catalan accent . Along the same lines, we should include the episode of Cain and Abel and their violent dispute. Cain and Abel playing brothers-turned-enemies, in a clear example of the so-called "sissy humor" . Furthermore, Noah and the Flood and the story of Nimrod , King of Babel and the emergence of man's vanity .
La biblia en pasta (1984) contains silly jokes, slapstick and sight gags galore. Intention of recounting the different segments that made it up and having a few laughs, although it is true that it is peppered with Summers's dizzying creativity, which gives no respite. In fact, one could speak of a certain vocation for voluntary tackiness, and with a multitude of "freak" characters that populate it. Guillermo Summers (Manuel's brother) also collaborated in the humorous tone that is its main purport. Manuel Summers' direction keeps things moving with laughs, he directed this sometimes hilarious, but mostly crude and bad taste spoof of Bible with ridiculous, embarrassing and disconcerting episodes. There are also an unbridled politically incorrect tone that always characterized Summers works, adding appearance from stand-in of famous politicians, such as Adolfo Suárez, Felipe González, Margaret Tacher, Ronald Regan or Fidel Castro. The jokes come with machine-gun rapidly , though don't always work, there are so many of them that this comedy ends up with enoughs laughs for quite entertaining. Including the anarchic, nihilistic, blasphemous and conceptually brutal humour of the scene in which Abel's sheep, after being murdered by his brother, devote themselves to praying the litanies, with their corresponding "ora pro nobis". It's a stupid movie but also funny and remains like a laugh-filled amusement. And following the style of Mel Brooks' crude humor in his parodies of 'History of the World part 1', The producers, Blazing saddles and Young Frankestein' .
The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Manuel Summers. He was a good actor and director with hits and flops. Manuel was successfully premiered in ¨"Adios cigüeña adiós" that got awesome critics and had big hit at the Spanish box office as Spain as South America . It won several awards in Festivals , as Circle of cinematographic writers National Syndicate of Spectacle, Spain 1971 : Winner Special Award Best Film . Being followed by an inferior sequel : ¨El niño es nuestro¨ with similar artistic and technician team . Manuel was a comic books humorist who publicized in ¨Pueblo¨ diary and on magazines as ¨Hermano Lobo¨and ¨La Codorniz¨. He was a comedian actor and an acceptable filmmaker. Manuel realized a lot of films including social critical which tended not to be very well received by the censor. Summers made an important diptych : ¨Del Rosa Al Amarillo¨ ("From Pink to Yellow, 1963") with Pedro Diaz Del Corral , Cristina Galbo, in which he created two episodes about love stories between teenagers and elderly people and ¨La Niña De Luto¨ starred by Alfredo Landa and Maria José Alfonso (1964) . La biblia en pasta(1984) was one of his least successful films. Unfortunately, this expensive undertaking, with a large number of extras, scale models, transparencies, etc., did not work well at the box office either, with just over 900,000 spectators, aborting a second part (which was to be titled "The Bible in Verse") that was announced at the end but was never filmed. As an experience, the film was indeed novel: the Bible taken as a joke, although really without mocking the essential, God, had not been made too much in commercial cinema, neither in Spain nor abroad.
