It’s knockabout schoolboy-ish fare which rarely depends on knowing irony for its effects, and which is a little bit sexist, though reinvigorated by the smart use of technology. More seaside postcard than South Park, the humor is appealingly old-fashioned. Many of these pleasures are satirical Spanish references - to Spanish reality TV, for example, or even to the failed 1981 coup d’etat - which will fly over the heads of non-Spanish viewers, as will the constant punning, which will make subtitlers sweat. The pages of a Mortadelo and Filemon comic book are packed with detail, verbal wit, and visual invention, and on screen this translates into a hyperactivity and breathlessness which is at times almost exhausting: it’s the kind of viewing experience designed to deliver new visual pleasures on a second viewing as the viewer refocuses on the background. Professor Bacterio (all characters are visually faithful recreations of the originals) has invented a serum called Reversicine, intended to transform Mortadelo and Filemon into intelligent beings, but Tronchamulas is accidentally injected with it, whereon he becomes gentle and baby-like, also revealing that he is Jimmy’s cousin. Further bad news arrives in the form of the monstrous Tronchamulas ( Victor Monigote), a violent, three-ton criminal who wishes to take revenge on Filemon by doing a terrible, nameless “something” to him. When Jimmy steals a safe from the TIA (not CIA) building, the Superintendent ( Mariano Venancio) instructs our heroes to recover it. Brainless, but an expert in disguise, Mortadelo ( Karra Elejalde) and his temperamental boss work for a criminal investigation agency, under threat from a dastardly Marty Feldman lookalike called “Jimmy el Cachondo” ( Gabriel Chame), loosely translatable as “Jimmy the Joker”. We’re returned to the ramshackle, comically violent, malfunctioning gadget-filled world they normally inhabit, something like a mash-up between Looney Tunes and Wallace and Gromit. Ilion Animation Studios / production coordinator: surfacing.Early scenes portray an entertainingly hi-tech, glossy variation on classic M & F slapstick motifs before it’s revealed that it’s all been a dream by Filemon ( Janfri Topera). Ilion Animation Studios / production coordinator: modeling. Ilion Animation Studios / production coordinator: matte painting. Ilion Animation Studios / production coordinator: effects. Stereoscopic supervisor: Telson (as José María Aragonés) Lighting assistant (as Juan Pablo Acosta) / render wrangler (as Juan Pablo Acosta)Ĭharacter texturing artist / lighting artist Visual Effects by Juan Pablo Acosta Duarte Technical director: Best Digital (as Víctor Castillo)ĭialogue editor: Filmigranas (as Jaime F. Re-recording mixer (as Nicolás de Poulpiquet) Sets and props supervisor (as Fernando Huélamo)Ĭharacter art designer / storyboard artistĪrt: sets and props (as Raúl Morales 'Neko') / matte painterĪdditional art: sets and props (as Julián Romero)Īssistant sound editor: Filmigranas (as Alberto Abengozar) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Fernando Manso Losantos Production manager: Zeta (as Laura Oliva Lerín) Line producer: Ilion (as Julián Larrauri) Delegate producer (as Eneko Gutiérrez Sola)
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