La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (2003)

Director:

Javier Fesser

Writers:

Javier Fesser (written by) and
Guillermo Fesser (written by) ...

Release Date:

7 February 2003 (Spain)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

Que nos coja confesados

Plot:

The DDT, the professor Bacterio's dangerous invention has just been stolen by the dictator of Tirania...

Plot Keywords:

Local Blockbuster | Costume | Espionage | Slapstick | Surrealism

Awards:

6 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Benito Pocino	...	Mortadelo
Pepe Viyuela	...	Filemón Pi
Dominique Pinon	...	Fredy Mazas
Paco Sagárzazu	...	Calimero, el Tirano
Mariano Venancio	...	El Super
Janfri Topera	...	El Profesor Bacterio
Berta Ojea	...	Ofelia
María Isbert	...	Mentxu, la madre de Filemón
Emilio Gavira	...	Rompetechos
Germán Montaner	...	Klaus, secretario de Calimero
Janusz Ziemniak	...	Nadiusko, espía ruso
Paco Hidalgo	...	Toto, el verdugo del Palacio de Tirania
Javier Aller	...	Mickey, el Gigante
Luis Ciges	...	El Técnico Especialista en Pelotas de Cemento Fresco
José Manuel Moya	...	Danino

Also Known As:

Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (International: English title)
Mortadelo y Filemón (Spain) (working title)

Runtime:

107 min | Germany:88 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish | Catalan | English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Japan:PG-12 | Finland:K-13 | Spain:T | Brazil:Livre | Germany:6 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain

Company:

Sogecine

Trivia:

In the super's office there are Francisco Ibáñez drawings hanging in the walls

Quotes:

Calimero, el Tirano: [on the red phone] Who is it?
Nadiusko, espía ruso: Ah, Mr. Excellency. Good morning, Generalissimo. It's Nadiusko. At your and the fatherland's service. I don't know if you remember...
Fredy Mazas: AHHHHHHHHHHH!
Nadiusko, espía ruso: Anyway... What a beautiful country. And the people are so charming. And 2 phones... a red one and a black one... What's the black one for?
Calimero, el Tirano: For ordering people's heads cut off when they lie to me on the red one.
Nadiusko, espía ruso: Really?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Great Escape (1963)

Soundtrack:

Disney Castle Logo

Childish

This film depicts the exploits of two comic characters highly popular in Spain, Mortadelo and Filemon. They are secret agents able to ruin the most simple mission.

This movie was too childish to me. Though the visual jokes are occasionally amusing, several of them are repeated too frequently. Did the writer run out of ideas after 5 minutes? Expect just the most basic humor.

The special effects effort is commendable. However, you cannot rely in that only. A good movie require other elements such as a script.

Here in Spain it has been heavily publicized, what can explain an initial success but I'm afraid that many will be disappointed.

Anyway, if you liked "El milagro de P. Tinto" you might like this.