Ridiculous farce.
Mainly a vehicle for Tin-Tan, EL FANTASMA DE LA OPERETTA is pretty much what one would expect if they've seen his other films. However, he is pretty funny and the film has its moments.
Aldo (Tin-Tan) and his girlfriend Lucy (Peluffo) decide to reopen an abandoned theater to run operettas in. Unbeknownst to them, there's an angry Phantom haunting the place, hideously burned in a fire of his own making years earlier. Aldo starts dressing up like the Phantom to scare people for a laugh and hilarity ensues.
The movie is really loosely based on "The Phantom of the Opera", but there are some classic scenes. The Phantom plays his melody on a violin, and much of the time shadowed on the wall. The unmasking is pretty stupid, and the makeup is poorly thought out (he even has what looks like a pair of poorly-fitted fake buck teeth sticking out).
The sets are pretty neat and there are a few funny musical numbers. Rather hard to find, but worth a watch if you're a Phantom or Tin-Tan fan, but not much here for anyone else. 5/10 in my book.
Aldo (Tin-Tan) and his girlfriend Lucy (Peluffo) decide to reopen an abandoned theater to run operettas in. Unbeknownst to them, there's an angry Phantom haunting the place, hideously burned in a fire of his own making years earlier. Aldo starts dressing up like the Phantom to scare people for a laugh and hilarity ensues.
The movie is really loosely based on "The Phantom of the Opera", but there are some classic scenes. The Phantom plays his melody on a violin, and much of the time shadowed on the wall. The unmasking is pretty stupid, and the makeup is poorly thought out (he even has what looks like a pair of poorly-fitted fake buck teeth sticking out).
The sets are pretty neat and there are a few funny musical numbers. Rather hard to find, but worth a watch if you're a Phantom or Tin-Tan fan, but not much here for anyone else. 5/10 in my book.
- The-Silent-Photoplayer
- Jul 11, 2003