tabaleao Reviews

The Lovebirds (2020)

Not lame and very funny

[10/10 · 14 June 2020]

It is an excellent punch up comedy. Not lame at all, although the name sounds like it. The actors are great and really funny, and the plot is unexpected. Really enjoyed it!

Bruno Aleixo's Film (2019)

Ok i guess

[4/10 · 19 February 2020]

The actors save the movie. Great interpretations. It has really really good moments, some new and funny, the gore and horror added something new. BUT it also has excess of old references, supposedly nostalgic comic moments (aka boring) and much of the time i felt more like it was a merchandise move to put aleixo in a new bigger, unknown and very normative brasilian audience, more than the movie we actually deserved (older fans, brasilian and portuguese). the authors used to be called unaligned and it felt... Aligned. There were repeated jokes, and really easy going jokes for new viewers, and with big audiences in mind. It felt comercial, and i understand that the authors or the producer wanted to make this step, people don't just make movies for fun (or do they) it's understandable, but it simply wasn't as pure and as funny as the inicial series, and neither as clever as some (some) more recent jokes on the radio. It also felt like it was a little rushed idea, but well, that's what the movie is all about, i guess. I have to add, it fails desperately the bechdel test, and all the female characters are props. And that annoys me a bit (a lot, but i am used to it from the 90's). Still, it has excellent actors and really funny moments. I did not cry laughing, but almost all of the time i was giggling. It was ok.

4Play (2017– )

It embarrasses me

[1/10 · 18 October 2017]

I am pretty ashamed by this Portuguese serial. Once i saw some money was invested in a new fresh crew to make a new series, i was pretty enthusiastic. But then i saw it. Mostly it is rape jokes. It is a bunch of guys in an environment recreating American pie (this is so embarrassing, Portugal is sooooo delayed on time, my god) and, as if this wasn't bad enough, the script and plot are so bad, that the actors cannot act properly, so the acting is terrible. You can see the credits for yourself, but all of the guys are really ugly compared to the girls (most of the girls don't have movies made before and the guys do, making you believe they were picked by prettiness. And this is very ironic, because they are indeed the best actors) And, the least and worse, the show is about rape. But they never call it rape, it is about a group of guys who engage in a competition to see who has more sex. They give rewards if they can make it to anal, to get a virgin, etc. they dismiss points if they find out the girl was veryyyyyyy intoxicated and sleeping. Still tap the back, but say it does not count points because it is too easy to get a really hottie that way. THAT is what you will watch. I saw it wit friends and we could not believe our eyes and how our delayed country decided this was funny and to put it on air in 2017. Yuck.