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When I was a kid, the TV channel I used to watch had a showing of this movie what seemed to be every other night.

Although that might have been just a slight exaggeration, they actually must have got a really cheap licensing agreement, because I have some scenes burned into my retinas.

I actually do like the animated Flintstones series. But 'Viva Rock Vegas' just plays like a barebones-structured, full-lenght feature movie. This might have worked as a 30-minute short or direct-to-DVD, but when it hits the 90-minute mark it already is too overdone.

Being live-action is not doing this any favors. Addy and Baldwin aren't nearly as charming as the animated Fred and Barney, and the creativeness of the drawings is poorly substituted by props and some amount of early-2000's CGI.

The writing is plain bad. It fails to entertain an undemanding 6-12 year old. Forgettable jokes, boring deliveries and a frankly uninteresting story. I also was forced several times to either see this or turn off the TV.

I can't help but think that someone must have payed some of the reviews in here. Fairly Odder is a stale, rancid laugh-track-sitcom that does not preserve what made the original series good.

It definitely does NOT uphold the original series humor. It does not make justice to Cosmo and Wanda, and it does not make justice to what it meant to kids around the world. I grew up watching the mid-late seasons of Fairly Oddparents and I could tell they weren't as good as the earlier ones I managed to watch. Some episodes were salvageable and some jokes could land, though.

I can't count this as a spin-off to the original series. This feels more like a mid, unfunny sitcom they had laying around and had to market somehow, so they slapped two of the most memorable animated characters of the last decade and called it a day.

There are two or three sitcoms released on the last decade that have an eerily similar vibe to them. They also aren't really good, and I might be starting to see some kind of pattern.

'Old Man Made in Spain' is precisely what I think of when talking about Paco Martínez Soria's filmography.

90 minutes of pure, (somewhat) heartfelt comedy, that is by no means a masterpiece but encapsulates perfectly what all these movies are about. When talking about Spanish cinema in the 60s-70s this, right here, is probably the one that better represents them all.

It's silly and comfy. Made me laugh aloud a couple of times, and felt like a soft hug in some scenes. Throughout the whole movie you'll find an erotic subtext (alright, sometimes it's not subtle at all) that feels like kind of undermines its wholesomeness, but not everything can be perfect.

Some very angry people will say mean things about the character portrayed. Some people truly can't enjoy any fun, and require any and every character to meet the most high ethical and philosophical standards. They probably don't like warm hugs.