"Mato sem Cachorro" has something new to add to the wave of Brazilian comedies that have been released throughout the year: it has Danilo Gentile, a famous TV host in Brazil in his first major role in a film; it also has minor roles with other Brazilian hosts: Rafinha Bastos as a veterinary doctor and Marcelo Tas playing twins, as the bosses of the radio station. It is also a bit overlong for a comedy (it runs more than two hours), a fact that decreased my rating from 8 to 7. The plot consists in Deco(Gagliasso), a nerd who stays all day long at home in front of the computer doing funny video editions on the Internet, usually mixing songs to real life footage of celebrities. After a brief relationship with a radio station employee, Zoe (Leandra Leal), Deco is depressed and living with his outgoing cousin Leleo(Gentile), who works in a company but is often diminished by his superior. It turns out that Deco's courtship with Zoe started by chance, when they found a dog under strange circumstances and decided to adopt it. So Deco, with the aid of Leleo, decides to kidnap the same dog, who now is living with Zoe and his new boyfriend - an oddball owner of a dogs spa. From this moment on, a series of misadventures start to happen - one of the funniest is Zoe's brother band trying to break into the music business, and so many others with the dog, who steals many of the movie scenes. As I told you before, it's a funny movie, the cast is fine and the production is competent. It is only quite overlong and fairly predictable, though.
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It's a real winner when it comes to Brazilian comedies!
ricardopthomaz14 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Wow!! I'm really impressed! I just left the theater and I'm still laughing!! Geez, it's been a long time since I laughed this hard with a Brazilian comedy! This is really good!
OK, OK, there's nothing sooooo new here, it's basically Ted's plot, yeah, I'm completely aware of it. An immature fella, living with his oddball friend left his relationship with a girl after they spend two years together with an animal. Plus, the animal is the reason for their reapproach lately and when the main protagonist loses it, hell breaks loose.
Sound's like Ted, right? Even the very poster from the movie has some resemblance with it. But the gags are really different from Ted and great too, it takes a complete different direction from the McFarlane movie.
The actors are great, three of them in the movie, work or worked in the Brazilian edition of the very popular TV show CQC, so it has a real proximity with it's audience and the idea of a narcoleptic dog just amuses me, making the whole experience really funny! The story is great, funny as hell, the direction is good, this is simply the best Brazilian comedy of the year, I don't know if it's the best comedy of the year, it could really be, but narrowing it only for Brazil, which is the targeted audience, it's truly the top comedy of 2013!!
I guess even if you're not a Brazilian guy you can enjoy it, understand most of the gags and have great fun with it! Of course, it's not flawless, specially being a comedy, but... seriously, must watch!! It's that funny!
Where The Hangover Part III failed with me this year, Mato Sem Cachorro scored big time!
A little curiosity for you that doesn't speak Portuguese: the title of the movie is a joke with the fact that the movie has a dog, but it's also the Brazilian saying to "being up the creek", you know, when you are in a shitty situation, so I guess that the English title "Wolf in the Door" lost the real joke here. In Brazil we use to say "estar em um mato sem cachorro", which literally means "being in a dogless bush".
OK, OK, there's nothing sooooo new here, it's basically Ted's plot, yeah, I'm completely aware of it. An immature fella, living with his oddball friend left his relationship with a girl after they spend two years together with an animal. Plus, the animal is the reason for their reapproach lately and when the main protagonist loses it, hell breaks loose.
Sound's like Ted, right? Even the very poster from the movie has some resemblance with it. But the gags are really different from Ted and great too, it takes a complete different direction from the McFarlane movie.
The actors are great, three of them in the movie, work or worked in the Brazilian edition of the very popular TV show CQC, so it has a real proximity with it's audience and the idea of a narcoleptic dog just amuses me, making the whole experience really funny! The story is great, funny as hell, the direction is good, this is simply the best Brazilian comedy of the year, I don't know if it's the best comedy of the year, it could really be, but narrowing it only for Brazil, which is the targeted audience, it's truly the top comedy of 2013!!
I guess even if you're not a Brazilian guy you can enjoy it, understand most of the gags and have great fun with it! Of course, it's not flawless, specially being a comedy, but... seriously, must watch!! It's that funny!
Where The Hangover Part III failed with me this year, Mato Sem Cachorro scored big time!
A little curiosity for you that doesn't speak Portuguese: the title of the movie is a joke with the fact that the movie has a dog, but it's also the Brazilian saying to "being up the creek", you know, when you are in a shitty situation, so I guess that the English title "Wolf in the Door" lost the real joke here. In Brazil we use to say "estar em um mato sem cachorro", which literally means "being in a dogless bush".
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