Balas & Bolinhos - O Regresso

This is the best comedy film Portuguese that I saw. I congratulate the authors, actors, producers and all the staff. Note that since the golden age of the Portuguese movies (the 50 and 60 decades), this was the first Portuguese movie that manage to completely sold out tickets in Portuguese movies. You must see this movie. It's a Portuguese movie made with a few EUROS and it's magnificent. It's a excellent comedy. O Regresso, is also clammed as a Cult movie among teenagers. A third movie would be very welcome and would assure Luis Ismael quality as an actor and director. A trilogy named "Balas&Bolinhos" would free Portugal movie scene from Manoel d'Oliveira Shadow.

I'll start with a question: How can an unsupported director make more success than a BIG FAT BUDGET MOVIES director? Creativity, creativity and even more creativity.

Luis Ismael made is debut in "Balas e Bolinhos". But "Balas&Bolinhos - O Regresso" made a boost in the Portuguese movie scene. The low budget movie was made with no official support but even this way, got is way to the BIG SCREEN. Making fairly more success than Portuguese movies with Portuguese stars, Balas&Bolinhos - O Regresso, counts with almost no stars at all, but their performance in the movie, makes everybody think that the so called Portuguese actors and stars should learn how to perform from the beginning. Luis Ismael, Jorge Neto, J.D. Duarte and Joao Pires made a fantastic movie full of action, entertainment and tons of laughs with just a few Euros and lots of creativity. Balas&Bolinhos - O Regresso, is also clammed as a Cult movie among teenagers. A third movie would be very welcome and would assure Luis Ismael quality as an actor and director. A trilogy named "Balas&Bolinhos" would free Portugal movie scene from Manoel d'Oliveira Shadow.

If the first movie of the series did a lot with very little this one is exactly the opposite. Although the budget was largely increased, all that was good in the first flick is lost. The story rambles and rambles, simply not going anywhere and humorless scenes last forever. These useless ploys don't advance the plot, don't develop the characters and in sum, do absolutely nothing worthy for the movie except add time to it. It is just tragic to see how the superbly flavored characters of the first movie are destroyed with cliché lines that simply are not funny. All in all, this is a very painful movie to watch and not worth the rental money, let alone a theater admission.

For the blind critics of this movie I simply ask, What do you want? Don't criticize the hard work of all involved in this movie. If you think you can do better i suggest that put hands on the work gather all the money and do a movie, and you will earn the respect and I will respect your critics.

This is not a good movie for the intellectual to watch, the humor is not very much worked but doesn't mean that isn't funny. The story is very much like the others. One of the greatest triumph of this movie is make fun in a healthy way of many movies that is directed to (fake) intellectual people, and that same movies have a very high budget comparing to this one and showing to many people what can be done with some much little. The visual of this movie is very good and i'm not saying this because this is a low-budget movie.

To finish my review of this very good Portuguese movie, I hope the evolution of Luis Ismael and J.D. Duarte because their future is certainly wrap on a gold paper.

Hi!

Balas e Bolinhos - O Regresso it's a movie that breaks all the rules in the Portuguese movie scene. It shows the real language of 85% of the people in the Portuguese country and they are not shame of that!

Balas e Bolinhos shows the DREAMS of some that wants money and a future but they try to get it in the wrong way... :) In Portugal we don't have only NICE PEOPLE WITH LOTS OF MONEY... We have LOTS OF POOR PEOPLE that want to be someone!!

The movie entertains us!! Recently i saw an other Portuguese movie: "Filme da Treta"... forget it... bring me again Balas e Bolinhos... Please!!!

Luis Ismael: You are a PRO man!! :)

Regards

Luis Santos