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Regular and routine Paco Martinez Soria comedy , this time set in Mexico city and Acapulco
ma-cortes25 April 2022
Funny and fun Paco Martinez Soria vehicle with great entertainment and amusement enough . It is an agreeable picture concerning the silly adventures of an unfortunate as well as botcher sixty-and-some-year-old man going to visit his son in Mexico , but things get worse . As Ramón (Paco Martínez Soria) is fed up with his wife Socorro (Florinda Chico) wanting to see him dressed up and forbidding him food for his health . When he leaves Madrid and arrives in Mexico to attend the wedding of his son Carlos (Fernando Luján), Ramón takes advantage of the country's legislation to ask his wife for a divorce. Paco Martínez Soria believes himself to be a very happy veteran with his new divorce . Once there , he only encounters a bustling Mexican city and he has a lot of problem . When he notices that he is not very good at flirting with young girls and that his wife's advice was not entirely misguided , he becomes frustrated in his new condition.

Amusing Spanish comedy with the great Paco Martínez Soria who steals the show with his Aragonese accent , and playing splendidly his usual role as a fast-talking , grumpy as well as sympathetic old man . This diverting movie deals with a recently divorced man , unhappy in his previous marriage , he attempts to encounter new opportunities and a better life , but things go awry , because he goes on loving his wife , Florinda Chico . In this family comedy is often used the ordinary formula about ¨Fish out water¨ , as the film is made to entertain , and this movie , especially for a good time and a pleasant entertainment and is also pretty darn funny . Sitting in a strange middle ground between the completely absurd and the stylishly enjoyable . There are some nice jokes in the film and the cast , playing eccentric characters , make a cosy fit . The flick interweaves fun comedy along with a social criticism about the Mexican social habits . Based on a play from the 1930s written by Pedro Muñoz Seca and Pedro Pérez Fernández ("Anacleto Se Divorcia"), this film creates its comic gags with an outdated anti-divorce orientation . This movie packs customary images of the social life from the Seventies with nutty situations , but it especially contains catching touches of humor , tongue-in-cheek and irony ; adding the typical Mexican and Spanish idiosyncrasy . At the same time it shows a large sightseeing , taking place a tourist tour of he populous capital, Mexico D. F. , or the touristy Acapulco , in which there is no lack of the habitual images of diving in La Quebrada .It includes an atmospheric and functional cinematography by Fernando Colín . And an evocative and catching musical score by Antón García Abril , with soundtrack typical of the sixties and early seventies , adding some Mexican songs . Only for fans of Martínez Soria that may enjoy it.

¨El alegre divorciado(1976)¨ was a Spanish/Mexico co-production and regular but professionally directed by Pedro Lazaga. Lazaga directed various film with the popular comic player Paco Martinez Soria . Pedro was born in Valls , Tarragona , Catalonia , and died on November 30, 1979 in Madrid . He was a prolific director and writer , specially known for Los Chicos del Preu (1967), María Morena (1951), Cuerda De Presos (1956) and Posición Avanzada (1966). Pedro was a craftsman , a notorious director and writer who directed all kind of genres such as Peplum : Siete Espartanos , Wartime : Cuerda De Presos , Posicion Avanzada , Torrepartida , La Patrulla ; Drama : Rostro De Asesino , Otro Arbol De Guernica , but especially known for comedies in low budget . Director Pedro Lazaga made , during the fifties and early sixties , eight films , mostly comedies : ¨Muchachas De Azul¨, Ana Dice Si¨. ¨Luna De Verano¨, ¨Económicamente Debiles¨ , ¨Trio Damas¨ for screenwriter and producer Jose Luis Dibildos and his ¨Agata Films Productions¨. The best of all them resulted to be ¨Los Tramposos¨. He continued making comedies such as Patrulla De Los Once , Los Tramposos , Sabian Demasiado , El Vikingo , ¡No Firmes Más Letras, Cielo! , Vente a Ligar Al Oeste , Hasta El Matrimonio Nos Separe , La Amante Perfecta , Fulanita y Sus Menganos , Vota a Gundisalvo , Terapia Al Desnudo , Tres Suecas Para Tres Rodríguez , Yo soy Fulana de Tal , 5 Almohadas Para Una Noche , En La Cresta De la Ola and several others . His most known films were with the popular comic player Paco Martinez Soria , such as : Abuelo Made in Spain , Padre De La Criatura , Alegre Divorciado , Estoy Hecho Un Chaval , Vaya Par Gemelos , among others . Rating : 4.5/10 it's a pretty weak comedy, inferior than other Paco Martinez Soria movies.
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