Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll

Everyone knows how hard is to make a movie based on a comic book that really captures the feeling, and this one was made based on several comic strips, and I gotta say WOW they really made it. Based on several titles of Angeli, most of his characters are there. The screenplay deals with a lot of different comic strips , but they did a real nice job in a way that it flows like it was made specially for this movie. If you know the characters and read the strips the movie works like a recollection of greatest moments with a plot, if you never saw you'll have a bunch of puns and punch lines where no one is safe ( From Old Hippies to Communist Conspirators),Rita Lee as Re Bordosa (a real drunk-bukowski kinda girl) is a must see. Above all the expectations !!!

Wood & stock is a great animation, adaptation of the comics wrote by Angeli. The script surrounds two main characters, friends, middle age hippies, crazy about rock and roll that lives a incredibly sloppy life. After Wood's wife goes away to a religious trip, the two hippies stay at home and struggle to live by their own, with no job and no big responsabilities. Then they pursue an old dream of playing in a a rock band and that's how the movie develops. Another main character is Re Bordosa, belongs to the same crazy hippie generation of Wood and Stock that lives a promiscuous and very sloppy life as well. She is trying to ge better doing therapy. The character is dubbed by the rock singer Rita Lee in a very remarkable way, and Tom Zé, brazilian singer, dubbed Raulzito with his poetic way of talking. The movie is very much fun, a lot of jokes about society and common habits, but you may need a little patience to adapt to it's cartunish looking style. The sounds doesn't match with image syncrony perfectly, but it's no big deal. It just represents the first branches of the brazilian animation cinema that started to develop in the decade when this movie was produced. Great movie, entered to the history of brazilian cinema. Recommended to mature audience.

About 90% of this movie was wasted on recycling old jokes from the comic books. Rê Bordosa's dubbing was atrocious, she sounded like Mumm-Ra from the Thundercats.

The movie's pace is mostly boring, and all the jokes follow the comic strip formula (line-line-punchline). The coloring is terrible as well, it looks like it was colored with photoshop. In 1996.

It was very nice to see a lot of Angeli's characters in the movie, such as Mara Tara - a personal favorite.

The ending was very good though. I wish the rest of the movie were as good as the ending.

Next time, please hire a good writer. This way the movie would appeal more to the fans of the comic strips.

Angeli was one of the cartoonists who marked my youth, along with Laerte, Glauco and Adão, sometimes I saw his strips in my school books from characters like Luke e Tranta or Skrotinhos, however, I had never seen anything with Wood & Stock before this film. This film leaves a lot to be desired, as the film is very slow and little happens other than the story being just about two old unemployed hippies who want to make a living as rockers despite having no talent. This is a script you would expect coming from MTV, but the film still fails in this regard, as no music is heard during the film and the protagonists only make noise with their instruments as a form of joke. The film even shows a terrible subplot in which the son of one of the protagonists feels uncomfortable having to put up with such an irresponsible father and wants to leave that house. I'm not going to say that Angeli's work is terrible, because I saw the films Dossiê Rê Bordosa and Bob Cuspe Não Gostamos de Gente and they also had many dirty jokes that worked much better than this film made by Otto Guerra, which only follows the standards of his studio in showing vulgar films and stories that make no sense at all.

If you want to see good films based on Angeli's work, I recommend watching Dossiê Rê Bordosa and Bob Cuspe instead (mainly the last one).

I really like Angeli, and I think he's very talented, funny and intelligent but this movie was a very big disappointment. Very slow, poor in music and animation. Is a movie just for fans of the artist. The plot... well there's no plot, just repetition of what was published as comics, who read it, gets bored, nothing new happen. Even Rita Lee was really bad as Re Bordosa. I hate to say that but Angeli deserves something better than this worst than flash movie. Even Fritz the cat made in 1972 had a better animation. The voices of the characters are almost out of synchrony. I see the efforts to make something different but even as a low budget project one have to be very paternalist to say it is good.