What can I say about this movie? For an ordinary movie fan, its surely a movie to forget. Its tailored to the humorous taste of João Paulo Rodrigues and Pedro Alves, and is the mirror of Portuguese popular comedy, full of profanity and implied sexual allusions.
João Paulo Rodrigues and Pedro Alves are comedians who have made their way in the Portuguese comedy scene through "stand-up" and improv joke. Its a kind of humor that pleases the ordinary people but has no refinement whatsoever and is, therefore, subject to criticism from the most demanding and educated audiences. Television consecrated them through several shows and ultimately gave them their own TV show, the "Telerural", where the two humorists already presented the universe that this film develops: a small village in the rural North of Portugal called Curral de Moinas, where Quim and Zé live. Its a universe where all the stereotypes about the Portuguese countryside are carried to an extreme, mixing a lot of allusions to sexuality, religion, sport, political criticism and others.
From the very beginning, the movie makes clear what kind of humor is going to be presented, and anyone who has seen an episode of Telerural knows it in advance. In fact, this movie has already been made with their audience in mind. Of course it was a success! Both comedians were very popular thanks to his TV show and a large legion of admirers joined this film, making it the most viewed Portuguese film of year 2013. There was no way to be otherwise. It was not thanks to its quality that this movie was seen, but thanks to the popularity of the two actors involved.
In fact, the movie has no quality. Its virtually a very large version of a Telerural episode, and has television movie features. The poor script is only a basis for an unbroken succession of dubious jokes. The audience that went to see this movie wants to laugh, wants to see what they saw on TV, and that's what the movie is concerned with. There is no concern in presenting a compelling or appealing plot. Everything in this movie smells amateurish, including the extras and sets.
The only thing that stands out for the positive is the performance of the two actors: João Paulo Rodrigues and Pedro Alves are chameleons, capable of incorporating several characters. In this movie, they didn't show their full potential (in some episodes of Telerural they did better than in this movie), but their ability to represent several distinct characters in the same movie is nonetheless positive. Even if we hate the kind of comedy they do.
