I laughed a lot during the screening of this weird, short and funny movie with practically no dialog. The story doesn't need it, because the body language and sounds than the characters do, explain all the situations successfully.
Cichonga it's a tough war veteran that, because an incident that we don't know anything about it (maybe sequels of his war scars), is brought back to life by a mad doctor, and now needs to drink beer all the time to stay alive. To optimize this process, he keeps a servant doing an special beer branded with his name. When the evil Mr. Pancho steals a lot of bottles full of Cichonga's beer, our anti-hero begins a quest to recover his elixir and defeat his nemesis once for all.
The film have some special moments that appears like some sort of intermissions (faux commercials and trailers) and it's impossible not to laugh with them. The back-story between Cichonga and Mr. Pancho before their rivalry it's surprising and daring.
Cichonga takes many video games references like the camera resembling an FPS, enemies than disappear when dying and they respawn later, and even a map a la GTA.
This movie is a love letter to drinking beer, the violence in American cinema, film grain, independent films and of course, and again, drinking alcohol: 'the cause and the solution of all the problems in life'.
We want a sequel!
Cichonga it's a tough war veteran that, because an incident that we don't know anything about it (maybe sequels of his war scars), is brought back to life by a mad doctor, and now needs to drink beer all the time to stay alive. To optimize this process, he keeps a servant doing an special beer branded with his name. When the evil Mr. Pancho steals a lot of bottles full of Cichonga's beer, our anti-hero begins a quest to recover his elixir and defeat his nemesis once for all.
The film have some special moments that appears like some sort of intermissions (faux commercials and trailers) and it's impossible not to laugh with them. The back-story between Cichonga and Mr. Pancho before their rivalry it's surprising and daring.
Cichonga takes many video games references like the camera resembling an FPS, enemies than disappear when dying and they respawn later, and even a map a la GTA.
This movie is a love letter to drinking beer, the violence in American cinema, film grain, independent films and of course, and again, drinking alcohol: 'the cause and the solution of all the problems in life'.
We want a sequel!
