La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón
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La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (The Big Adventure of Mortadelo and Filemón) is a 2003 Spanish language film based on the popular Spanish comic book series Mortadelo y Filemón
by Francisco Ibáñez Talavera
. The film was directed by Javier Fesser
and stars Benito Pocino and Pepe Viyuela.
machine which the spy decides to sell to the President of Tirania, a small Eastern Europe
an dictatorship
. There are numerous clashes between the spy, Fredy, and Mortadelo and Filemon (who Fredy seems to want to kill). Our heroes end up in prison after accidentally beating up the local cop once too often. They escape, Filemon's mother gets kidnapped by Fredy and taken to Tirania. The spy is killed in Fredy's place as Fredy ingratiates himself with the President, while having Filemon's mother tortured. The heroes arrive and there is a big battle where Filemon is apparently killed. Then Mortadelo receives a mortal wound but is saved by the Holy Grail
while Fredy gets his just deserts. They return home to a heroes welcome.
way, using CGI special effects similar to The Mask. Though the film is not available in English, it is easily watchable without understanding the language.
Mortadelo y Filemón
Mort & Phil is one of the most popular Spanish comics series, published in more than a dozen countries. It appeared for the first time in 1958 in the children's comic-book Pulgarcito drawn by Francisco Ibáñez...
by Francisco Ibáñez Talavera
Francisco Ibáñez Talavera
Francisco Ibáñez Talavera , Spanish comic book artist and writer. Born in Barcelona, he is the creator of several comic book series, the most famous of which is Mortadelo y Filemón....
. The film was directed by Javier Fesser
Javier Fesser
Javier Fesser is a Spanish film director and publicist.Fesser earned his degree in Communication studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid...
and stars Benito Pocino and Pepe Viyuela.
Plot
The adventure starts on 7 February 2003. A spy breaks into Professor Bacterio's lab and steals some of his inventions from T.I.A. HQ (Técnicos de Investigación Aeroterráquea). Mortadelo and Filemon who work for T.I.A. are put on the case but Fredy, another agent decides to beat them to it. One of the inventions is a weather controlWeather control
Weather control is the act of manipulating or altering certain aspects of the environment to produce desirable changes in weather. Weather control can have the goal of preventing damaging weather, such as hurricanes or tornadoes, from occurring; of causing beneficial weather, such as rainfall in...
machine which the spy decides to sell to the President of Tirania, a small Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
an dictatorship
Dictatorship
A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator. It has three possible meanings:...
. There are numerous clashes between the spy, Fredy, and Mortadelo and Filemon (who Fredy seems to want to kill). Our heroes end up in prison after accidentally beating up the local cop once too often. They escape, Filemon's mother gets kidnapped by Fredy and taken to Tirania. The spy is killed in Fredy's place as Fredy ingratiates himself with the President, while having Filemon's mother tortured. The heroes arrive and there is a big battle where Filemon is apparently killed. Then Mortadelo receives a mortal wound but is saved by the Holy Grail
Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is a sacred object figuring in literature and certain Christian traditions, most often identified with the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and said to possess miraculous powers...
while Fredy gets his just deserts. They return home to a heroes welcome.
About the film
It is 105 minutes long. Like the comics, the film was totally chaotic and very violent in a cartoon-slapstickSlapstick
Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.- Origins :The phrase comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the 'slap stick' in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in Commedia dell'arte...
way, using CGI special effects similar to The Mask. Though the film is not available in English, it is easily watchable without understanding the language.
Cast
- Benito Pocino as Mortadelo
- Pepe Viyuela as Filemon
- Dominique PinonDominique PinonDominique Pinon is a French actor whose most famous roles have been in the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jean-Jacques Beineix. In the theatre, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli and Valère Novarina...
as Fredy - Paco Sagárzazu as The President
- Mariano Venancio as Superintendent Vincente (their boss at T.I.A.)
- Janfri Topera as Professor Bacterio
- Berta Ojea as Ofelia (Vincente's secretary)
- Gustamante as a mosquito (CGI insect)
- María IsbertMaría IsbertMaría Isbert was a Spanish actress whose credits included more than 250 Spanish films during her career. Isbert worked with most major Spanish film actors and directors, including Luis García Berlanga and Luis Buñuel...
as Filemon's mother - Emilio GaviraEmilio GaviraEmilio Gavira is a Spanish actor. The youngest of 6, he lived his life in Málaga and Alcazar de San Juan ....
as a boss at T.I.A. - Germán Montaner as President's servant
- Janusz Ziemniak as The spy who started it all off
- Paco Hidalgo as President's torturer
- Javier Aller as Mickey El Gigante
- Jose Manuel Moya as Security guard at T.I.A.
- Joan Gadea as a crooked shopkeeper.
- Juan Peiró as someone who keeps getting run over
- Andrés Gasch as Matraca, a very large man who has it in for Filemon
- Manuel Pizarro as a thief
- Coyito Fernández as a cop
- Emiliana Olmedo as Queen Elizabeth II
- The people of Gijon (crowd scene at palace, which was the University)
- The people of Valencia where much of it was filmed including the final parade and also Madrid.