Tutti gli uomini del deficiente (1999)
Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune.
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A Masterpiece!
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Well you have to admit, the grand plot of the movie isn't so interesting, so to make it a good movie, they had to throw in most all of the funny comics in Italy at that time. It is kind of a treat to see cameos and sketches thrown in here and there, and Gialappa's Band as the voices is just too right. On top of all this, Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo's Japanese gangster sketch...what can you say...I think they should actually make a movie from that. Overall, the movie was ok.
The problem with "Tutti gli uomini del deficiente" is: it's not as much a movie as a patchwork of tv-star walk-ons, with the voiced-over comments of the popular Gialappa's Band. Some of the scenes are hilarious enough, but the usual comments of the three Gialappa guys sound pointless enough on material that was supposedly written on a screenplay: on the tv shows the formula kind of works as the Gialappa comments live on programs they are watching on TV. In a movie you'd expect -and you're entitled to expect- some more wit.