Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll (2006) User Reviews

A great comedy !

[borderlinebadabing-1 · 7/10 · 10 July 2007]

Everyone knows how hard is to make a movie based on a comic book that really captures the feeling, and this one was made based on several comic strips, and I gotta say WOW they really made it. Based on several titles of Angeli, most of his characters are there. The screenplay deals with a lot of different comic strips , but they did a real nice job in a way that it flows like it was made specially for this movie. If you know the characters and read the strips the movie works like a recollection of greatest moments with a plot, if you never saw you'll have a bunch of puns and punch lines where no one is safe ( From Old Hippies to Communist Conspirators),Rita Lee as Re Bordosa (a real drunk-bukowski kinda girl) is a must see. Above all the expectations !!!

A movie about music with no music?

[cajado · 5/10 · 16 October 2008]

I really like Angeli, and I think he's very talented, funny and intelligent but this movie was a very big disappointment. Very slow, poor in music and animation. Is a movie just for fans of the artist. The plot... well there's no plot, just repetition of what was published as comics, who read it, gets bored, nothing new happen. Even Rita Lee was really bad as Re Bordosa. I hate to say that but Angeli deserves something better than this worst than flash movie. Even Fritz the cat made in 1972 had a better animation. The voices of the characters are almost out of synchrony. I see the efforts to make something different but even as a low budget project one have to be very paternalist to say it is good.

Could have been a lot better

[somethingawful · 3/10 · 16 October 2006]

About 90% of this movie was wasted on recycling old jokes from the comic books. Rê Bordosa's dubbing was atrocious, she sounded like Mumm-Ra from the Thundercats.

The movie's pace is mostly boring, and all the jokes follow the comic strip formula (line-line-punchline). The coloring is terrible as well, it looks like it was colored with photoshop. In 1996.

It was very nice to see a lot of Angeli's characters in the movie, such as Mara Tara - a personal favorite.

The ending was very good though. I wish the rest of the movie were as good as the ending.

Next time, please hire a good writer. This way the movie would appeal more to the fans of the comic strips.

Historic animation

[gmenezesborges · 10/10 · 14 February 2018]

Wood & stock is a great animation, adaptation of the comics wrote by Angeli. The script surrounds two main characters, friends, middle age hippies, crazy about rock and roll that lives a incredibly sloppy life. After Wood's wife goes away to a religious trip, the two hippies stay at home and struggle to live by their own, with no job and no big responsabilities. Then they pursue an old dream of playing in a a rock band and that's how the movie develops. Another main character is Re Bordosa, belongs to the same crazy hippie generation of Wood and Stock that lives a promiscuous and very sloppy life as well. She is trying to ge better doing therapy. The character is dubbed by the rock singer Rita Lee in a very remarkable way, and Tom Zé, brazilian singer, dubbed Raulzito with his poetic way of talking. The movie is very much fun, a lot of jokes about society and common habits, but you may need a little patience to adapt to it's cartunish looking style. The sounds doesn't match with image syncrony perfectly, but it's no big deal. It just represents the first branches of the brazilian animation cinema that started to develop in the decade when this movie was produced. Great movie, entered to the history of brazilian cinema. Recommended to mature audience.