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This is how far class z goes. This movie is so bad, so campy, so creepy...it's a movie i like to see. Palito Ortega was an originally from Tucumán who made it as a teen pop singer-composer in the first sixties (he started hurting music), in the seventies he started is multimedia company "Chango Producciones" and made some of the worst and creepy movies of Argentinian cinema (then he hurt cinema), musical comedies with the colaboration of the armed forces that governed the country these days in a bloody dictatorship. His movies used to show the armed forces as friends, university students as delinquents, the family, the Catholic Church and patriotism as the best values. Its very hard for argentinians to see these movies now because they have a strong analogy and simbology (unvoluntary) and a strong flavor of what was happening these days. Beyond that this is campy as far camp goes. In Argentina we have much worse movies than Ed Wood movies and this is one of them. By the way: in the nineties Paito Ortega has been the governor of Tucuman (and finally he hurt the people).

It is vox populi that this film was used as a method of propaganda to exalt the terrifying military dictatorship in Argentina, it only goes to show that this government was trying to hide all the blood they shed under a carpet of "good" values and a treacherous exaltation of religion and family tradition. It really has no plot, only a series of unrelated chasing scenes and awful, terrible jokes that would make anyone feel embarassed (With Carlitos Bala as the comic relief), and many scenes of policemen perfoming stunts and showing off their discipline. What's most creepy about this movie is that it was released during winter recess and was aimed at a juvenile audience (mostly children). Those children are now adults and of course they were highly influenced by that dark historical period. To sum up, this is only interesting as a piece of history and nothing more.