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A while back, I went to see the 2003 movie Freaky Friday, and I loved it. The next day, I tried to watch the Brazilian film that also had the body-swap premise, which came out three years later, and I hated what I saw. This film wastes a lot of potential with most of the jokes being vulgar about eroticism.

The film already starts with the problem of barely showing the relationship of the main couple in the first minutes, instead focusing on their work and when they finally meet it is to have the discussion before the body exchange takes place the next day (the film uses a terrible excuse that it only happened because of the alignment of planets). The other characters besides the main couple barely have any development in the film, not even their daughter. I watched the movie until the end with great effort and I couldn't find any of the jokes funny. Furthermore, the film places the husband's boss as the main antagonist of the film, but even with his despicable actions, the film presents him as redeemed and not wrong at the end.

I have no idea how this film managed to become so popular that it had a sequel, it was probably just because of the people's favoritism towards the two Globo actors.

I remember that when I was younger I used to follow Ronaldo Azevedo's YouTube channel watching his animations, he was one of the few YouTubers that I watched as a teenager, however since he changed his content trying to imitate Luccas Neto he has declined a lot and this film is a clear example of how Ronaldo just wants to be like Luccas, but worse.

The film's premise is completely unoriginal, it copied the camping films that Luccas Neto made for streaming and turned it into a poorly made ET rip-off. The film steals so many ideas from Luccas Neto that in this film Ronaldo has a younger sister to draw a parallel with Giovanna Alparone. The story of the film is also bad, basically about a manchild who is a loser who believes in aliens and enters a camp where everyone is hateful and rude to him, including his younger sister. He discovers that there is an alien disguised as the professor who wants to return home, his acting is the worst, because the film expects you to sympathize with him, but he is very annoying and stupid. Not to mention that the movie's jokes aren't funny at all, some of them are fart jokes and one of the few scenes that uses special effects was to animate the alien's fart on the old professor's body. This movie is so bad that it makes Luccas Neto's movies look good.

After having suffered watching several terrible Brazilian animated films made for adult audiences, I finally found a good film that, by the way, is like a perfect tribute and way to end the career of cartoonist Angeli. Angeli was one of the main artists who created newspaper comic strips in Brazil, starting in the 80s in that period of rebellion of the punk movement he made adult comics with boldness in a period in which the country was becoming free from censorship. I read a few of his characters' strips when I was younger in my school books, they weren't my favorite, but I liked reading them sometimes. After watching the terrible film about the characters Wood & Stock (I don't know how people say that film is good) I finally found a movie that represents Angeli's work in a much better way and has an exciting story. This film is a spiritual successor to the short film Dossiê Rê Bordosa (which is also a good animation) which focuses on Angeli's popular character Bob Cuspe. Unlike the other film, this one tries to show a more serious plot paying tribute to his classic comics and even having reference the death of the character Rê Bordosa and also how Angeli is ending his career as a cartoonist. This film will most likely be difficult to please someone who has never even heard of Angeli, but anyone who is familiar with the classic cartoonists from the Folha de São Paulo newspaper will really enjoy this film.