Torrente 3: El protector

I adore Santiago Segura, but I am afraid that his imagination was not enough to get a better film than Torrente 1 and 2, which I consider very good ones. No new stuff in this one, sounds "dejà vu", though the budget to crashing things is considerable bigger. Only a few gags are worth (Futbol Club Barcelona one is wonderful!), and very-very bad taste in the initial and final scenes. Santiago, how could you do that to us? Thanks for showing us cameos of John Landis, Oliver Stone and Guillermo del Toro (though I don't remember having seen Guillermo there). I still am a Santiago fan, and I truly believe he can do a lot, but looks like Torrente's epoch is over. Come on, surprise us again!

His first movie was funny, the second is not so impressive, but this film is really awful, is full of topics with situations with no logic at all, and the script... this film don't know what is it. Yes, the explosions are more realistic than ever, and the specials appearances of very know people from Spain and from outside make is almost entertainment, but this famous people are from footballs players to humorist, trough Spanish singers to ...Oliver Stone!!!! and most of them simply don't know how to act if front a camera, but it seems that is not a problem to Santiago Segura to include a full handful in this movie.

A joke that make Santiago Segura more rich than he is ever now

Totally superfluous!!!

I like the first one because I laughed a lot by watching it. It was really something different to what we're used in my country (Hollywood BS mostly) and jokes were fresh... Second and third movies had to come (due to 1st one's popularity) and even when the jokes were not very original, I think the character is. Actually, if you take the 3 Torrente movies and compare them to any Hollywood-made pseudo comedy/action/Wayans Bros type of movies, Torrente 3 it's a blast. What's good about Torrente movies is that he still keeps identity (director hasn't tried to "globalize" the character, it's still a ruined "private eye" from Madrid). Of course, jokes are repeated all over the movies but aren't they much more fun than those jokes used again and again in lousy movies like scary movie or naked brain (I mean naked gun)...

I just arrived from the movie theater and I can't be more disappointed. Being a big Santiago Segura fan, I was expecting to spend two hours with non-stop laughs. However, I kept waiting for the "fun" parts... and they never arrived.

Torrente 3 has been a big blast during the opening weekend, when nobody knew how third movie looked like. However, I would be surprised if it is half successful as Torrente 2.

Maybe it is because he kept repeating the same jokes over and over again (the famous "pajillas" joke is mentioned at least three times). Maybe his character is so well known that it is difficult to surprise the audience. Maybe the plot lacks of originality. I can think of 15 funny moments in Torrente 2. Only one or two are really funny in Torrente 3. I would definitely skip this one and watch the first two Torrente's again.

How to manage a legion of actors from TV channels as TVE 1, Antena 3, Tele 5 and Canal Sur. With actor and directors world wide known as Yvonne Sció, Fabio Testi, Oliver Stone and Guillermo del Toro in such a magisterial way with an edition of smooth transition but at the same time dynamic. With some quotes outrageous that look like that they were written by the magazine "Mad Magazine". Woman take out from "Playboy" and spin offs from famous movies. With the best adult humor. A movie to watch several times to don't lose details of it. This man knows how to make a movie to justify the worth of buying a ticket to go and see it. Best foreign comic movie for 2005.