It is a comedy with the two most famous scoundrels of Portugal, Zeze and Toni. A film with many twists and turns stared by the two largest idiots of Lisbon.
The Crap movie was the second biggest box office in our country, with about 279 000 spectators, who went to the movies to see or review the misadventures of two good rogues, Zeze and Toni, respectively played by José Pedro Gomes António Feio unfortunately disappeared. These two comedians were without any doubt one of the greatest duo in Portuguese artistic history. This comedy of Jose Sacramento is the transposition to film of a radio show, that resulted into a play that was on the scene for years in our country, such was the success of these two very unique characters with the Portuguese public. I chose this movie because I wanted to pay a tribute to these two sacred monsters of the Portuguese theater, and I say this with conviction, because over the years I had the pleasure of seeing them on stage in more than one occasion.
The film version of the sucked conversation unfortunately leaves much to be desired in my opinion, was a mess. The sketches were too much which created a degree of detuning as the action went along for almost two hours of film, less would have been more. The argument of Filipe Madeira and Eduardo Fonseca was lost somewhere in the various scenarios that we watched during the film, leaving a certain taste the disappointment for those who had watched the plays and the series filmed for television. What was the success of this duo? It was a great conversation they had about the idiosyncrasies of life, their everyday lives and politics in Portugal. All this was lost on the road. It would have been more productive to have been fewer "dummies" and more humorous dialogues. The movie would benefit, since the rest was in the capable hands of these two great comedians.
The morst positive of this film, in addition to José Pedro Gomes and António Feio, was the work of the supporting actors. The compositions of Marco Horacio, Maria Rueff, John Raposo, António Melo and Rui Paulo are to be commended for the quality they also demonstrate as comedians that composes the rest of the "loonies" who are part of Zeze and Toni universe.
