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13 out of 15 people found the following review useful:

A Disrespectful Story Even for Slow Children

Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
26 August 2006

Today I have had my worst experience with Brazilian movies: I have watched about forty minutes of "Xuxa e os Duendes", the first Brazilian digital movie. This movie was included in the penultimate class of the Module II of the "Course of the History of Brazilian Cinema" to illustrate the cinema for infant-juvenile audiences in the beginning of the Twentieth-First Century, but it was actually an awful choice. The movie has reasonable special effects, but first of all, the screenplay is simply ridiculous, disrespectful even with children. The selection of the cast (actually, in the credits, everybody has a special participation) is non-sense: Ana Maria Braga, who presents cooking recipe on TV, seems to be reading the script; the entertainers Luciano Hulk and Gugu Liberato have never been actors, and certainly they wanted to prove this assertion; Leonardo Cordonis probably has a great godfather on TV or cinema business to play the important role of Damiz; and Xuxa, called Kira in the story, but somehow the movie is not called "Kira e os Duendes", has best performance as centerfold of "Ele e Ela" or "Playboy" magazines. Emiliano Queiroz and Guilherme Karan (with a minor participation) are great, as usual, and they do not deserve this turkey in their filmography. I really wanted to know the target-age of the audience aimed by the producers of this crap. My vote is one (awful).

Title (Brazil): "Xuxa e os Duendes" ("Xuxa and the Goblins")

5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:

I think these goblins are sicks

Author: Carlos Alberto Duarte from São Paulo, Brazil
30 December 2001

How can a movie called "Xuxa and the goblins" has a character, played by the entertainer Xuxa, named Kira? This movie used to be "Kira and the Goblins"..... This is more than humans can explain..... I love Wanessa Camargo (the rest of the country hate her) but release your dramatic career as a fairy in a Xuxa Movie is a big mistake. This movie just doesn't have actors or actresses, just presenters and entertainers from TV, like Ana Maria Braga (from a cook program), Luciana Gimenes (from a talk show), Luciano Hulk (from another talk show with games and music) and Gugu (wow! he's the "best" entertainer from Brazil, or almost). This movie committed a crime against the Tolkienmaniacs... Distributed by Warner... Our "Lord of the Rings" went to be released in the same USA day, but they preferred release this "Xuxa..." (who looks like a TV commercial) than "The Lord of The Rings" first! Sorry to the Xuxa's fans... i really like her... but i hate her movie and Warner for this episode...

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