Doida Demais

In Rio de Janeiro, the forger Letícia (Vera Fischer), her lover Noé (José Wilker) and a dealer cheat a powerful collector with some fake paints. When the fraudulent scheme is exposed, she escapes with a new lover, the pilot Gabriel (Paulo Betti), to the country of Bahia, chased by her former lover. "Doida Demais" is a very deceptive movie, with a very weak plot and a ridiculous open end. The good points are the beautiful photography, showing wonderful landscapes and the sunset in the interior of Bahia, the presence of José Wilker and Paulo Betti, two of the best Brazilian actors, and the beauty of Vera Fischer, certainly one of the most beautiful Brazilian women and in the summit of her shape, in very sexy situations. Unfortunately these elements are not enough to support this flick. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Doida Demais" ("Too Much Crazzy")

Interesting thriller that becomes a road film, with eroticism and not much hope. Well filmed and acted (Ítalo Rossi, José Wilker, Paulo Betti, Vera Fischer). Good atmosphere, although perhaps story is simpler than I expected considering the complex background of the leading couple.

Boy, was this story so overrun that it ran out of gas before its got to the thrilling parts. "Doida Demais" presents nothing that you haven't seen it before, specially if you know softcore flicks out there where the main attraction are the actresses getting involved in countless sex scenes. Here, Vera Fischer and José Wilker play a team of fake art-dealers who play a con on a very rich old man (Ítalo Rossi), who has a deep crush on the young woman, and then moments on (in a very confusing way) she meets another guy (Paulo Betti) of whom she falls in love, him with her and they run away together when a complex stream of murders start to happen.

A summary of events (basically, it doesn't get farther than this): Betti and Vera have plenty of sex scenes while Wilker's character chases down for several states, as the jealous partner who wants her for a next job. It all seems good when we hit the thrilling bits, the murders happen and the couple's escape with a plane but it all falls flat when the bipolar woman (who used of the man to get away from her crimes) keeps changing her mind about why she's stuck with the new guy, who know is obviously in love with her. It's all dumb and by the time we reach the encounter of the love triangle we are deeply bothered by their connections, their relations and everything.

The only good character is this near-wreck is the old rich man. Mr. Rossi is a prime example of great acting in this thankless yet powerful role where he steals the show every scene he's in. You almost want him to kill everybody after he realises he was betrayed all along and was sold a fake painting.

Are the sex scenes any good? Meh. The only one that kept me interested - in a funny way - is when the couple is driving a small truck on the desert road and both of them are touching each other parts and the truck keeps going off the road and you almost think they're either gonna crash or maybe hit on Wilker's car (but he never showed up then).

It's a quite laughable story, without any deep conflict or deep interesting point to make - except when the closing credits come there's a quote that says about live life to the fullest (just like the leading lady does, in a way) but I didn't buy it. I almost enjoyed it because David Tygel's score is good, and the cinematography by Oscar nominated DP César Charlone and another guy reaches amazing moments and shots. Other than that, there's almost nothing enjoyable about this. Avoid it and for more opinions on it, read the other reviews. They are not enthusiastic as I'm being and we hated this movie. 5/10.

This is another evidence of the boring cinema Brazil had in 70's and 80's. The poor story and the slow dying rhythm make we feel like doing something else but watching this movie. The power trio of actors is the only positive point in "Doida Demais": beautiful Vera Fisher stars it with all her talent. She is supported by two of the best Brazilian TV actors - José Wilker and Paulo Betti.

I saw this movie in 1990 by the advent of VHS at this time l'd found it a low grade, right now on DVD watching carefully the entire movie l had a final conclusion, still a weak brazilian production, the plot is unbelievable to start, the main character Letícia (Vera Fisher) is no longer has the same attractiveness when she was so younger, but there's something that saves the movie, the semi arid landscape, the river with a clean water running through the valley is marvelously photographed at Bahia countryside, the rest of the movie is total waste of time.

First watch: 1990 / How Many: 3 / Source: VHS-TV-DVD / Rating: 5.5.