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Rating: Rich dinner with the little cousin and family, coffee, digestif, and a trashy evening finale in front of the TV.
I grab the remote: RAIUNO... garbage... RAIDUE... garbage... RAITRE... there's BLOB, and we pause a bit, just to be enchanted by the most hilarious TV clips of the day... Rete4... let's not even talk about it! Except when they play the Bruttissimi ("The Most Awful Films") which aren't that awful!... channel 5 with the usual silly variety show... Italia1... usually there's some big sci-fi movie that my Aunt likes, but not this time... LA7 with Ferrara and some of his other friends doing the same old talk.
Nothing! The evening's over... tonight I'm going out to fool around with my buddies... but no!
me: "Aho, what are you pulling out?"
M: "A great trash movie! We'll watch it and have fun!"
me: "Is it "My Friends"?"
M: "No... better... better!"
me: "Lassie?"
M: "Better... better!"
me: "I get it... "Rocco Siffredi's movie" with the soundtrack of "Elio e le Storie Tese"!"
M: "No! A great movie with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill!"
There it is... the omelet is done! Yet another big movie from the Italian duo with no sex scenes.
And off we go, warming up the atmosphere: tropical landscapes and catchy music. "Let me tell you about the life I live/and you will listen twice again"... and so on blah blah blah.... dudududruru.... basically, in the end.... movin' movin' movin'/cruisin' cruisin' cruisin' cruising". Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful... beautiful everything! I'm already humming it and flashing the lines from the movie, with Mr. Carlo Pedersoli being the usual grouch but with a big heart, and Mario Girotti playing the usual smart guy wanting to bring justice with punches and jokes.
I still haven't figured out why after 3 billion movies together they haven't done a "Bud Spencer Vs Terence Hill" with an extra sex scene since Mr. Girotti always gets the girls... but no, by now I'm addicted to the movie.
The trash spaghetti-rigatoni-offal-tail drug invades me... clenched teeth... dilated pupils... an inner strength I hadn't imagined appears! The mystic phase hasn't arrived yet, nor have the jokes.
Here's one:
B.S. "Only Puffin will give you strength and grit to spare!"
2:
T.H. "Hey, do you have a lot of enemies on this island?"
B.S. "No, only you!"
3:
In the arms depot
T.H. "Hey, this looks good!"
B.S. "What is it?"
T.H. "I don't know! It says here, only Puffin will give you strength and grit to spare!"
B.S. "Throw it away!"
T.H. "What?"
B.S. "Throw it away!"
4:
The encounter with the natives
T.H. "I wonder if they are cannibals?"
B.S. "To me, they seem like refugees!"
In short, on and on to the end credits. The plot is slightly the same as the others, exotic landscapes, brawls, frying pans to the head (actually no... here there's the novelty of a coconut smashed to the face), monkeys, bananas that they could eat during filming, the bad guys are as funny as ever, there's always one playing the fool (see Sal Borgese as Anulu), the island turned upside down by human traffickers, a treasure to find.... Kamasuka Kamasuka Kamasuka and not Kamasutra!
Bud Spencer is unmistakable with his magnificent beard... Terence Hill dazzling as always... in short, nothing is missing! I would have thrown in a special appearance by Jimmy the Phenomenon... a Lino Banfi in his old glory days picking up the native women... a few jokes by Alvaro Vitali.. but no! The Spencer & Hill brand is untouchable, genuine, fun.
The evening with my cousin was great... and let's tango!
What do I do, give it one star? Give it 5? The genre is what it is: Trash! But it's enjoyable! Surely these films are a piece of Italian history... back in the day when the viewer was captivated by simplicity and good taste humor. In fact, it could remind today's younger generation who can't laugh anymore unless silliness and vulgarity appear on the big screen.
I would say that in the end, these productions provided excellent comedy, nothing compared to today's American parodies.
This is an example!
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