Anna Penido It's a laugh feast! Satirical, fast-paced, imaginative, savvy, wonderful performances lead by a director who knows what he is doing. Main character Roberto is a geek, but a talented comics artist, and the film weaves the real-life situations into the black&white comics book he is creating. Through his eyes real-life events are exaggerated and surreal, like when he wonders through a mall feeling a huge heart-ache for Cristina and all he sees at every step are young couples glued to each other kissing. Scenes with depraved grandfather who he adopts as mentor are hilarious. All scenes have an unexpected turn-around. Fine black-humor. A classic not to be missed!

user-236-837846 The movie has some good comic material, but the editing is horrible, the jokes go a little overboard and lack subtlety, and the director seems to care more about the unnecessary plot than the deliverance of humor. However, it is still an improvement from the usual archaic, unsophisticated, corny Chilean Comedy. The editing makes me feel like I am watching a 90s sitcom. All the movie lacks is the live studio audience in the background and a catchy theme song in the beginning to be a perfect candidate for a spot on the WB's prime time programming. Another annoying thing about the editing is the childish fart sounds used for comic relief. Truth be told, some jokes in the movie are actually funny. The audience doesn't need a whoopee cushion sound to let them know they have to laugh. The comic material in the movie had some backbone but was crippled by the editing. The humor revolves mainly around sexual innuendos, as most of Chilean humor does.I am not saying that this is a bad thing, just that sexual innuendos and vulgar remarks seem childish without the appropriate deliverance. Subtlety is the key word here. The writers should have spent more time thinking of the subtlety of the delivery of the joke instead of working on the plot and substance which have minor importance in a comic film. As a comedy, the film should have focused mainly on making people laugh, instead of revealing social taboo topics. I mean, the audience of a porn film do not care about the troubled life of the characters, but rather what type of penetration scenes will be in the film. In the same way a comedy/romantic comedy should not focus on relevant social issues, but rather on delivering well developed comic scenes and a worm happy ending. In fact, most great comedies have subliminal plots such as a crazy night in Vegas, a 40 year old virgin, or a day of skipping school. Needless to say, there have been many comedies that have incorporated relevant topics without loosing their humor, however this is not one of them. Not all about the movie is bad. Both characters Papitas, and the professor are quite entertaining. I could definitely see a modern sitcom revolving around these characters. Also, the movie shows some of the first usage of sarcastic and cynical comedy in Chilean cinema, which is an advance from their usual immature comedy. The beginning of the movie is quite entertaining (besides the Nickelodeon editing) and the film does manage to express some irony about idiosyncrasies of upper class Chileans. Maybe it's the strong influence of the catholic religion, the lack of Jewish immigrants, or that most of their television revolves around soap operas that make Chilean comedy so old fashion, but one thing this movie does show is that the entertainment industry in Chile is evolving, 10 years behind the rest of the developed world but still, evolving.

bustosricky First of all, I bet that this person doesn't even get Chilean Humor. And if you ever went to a private school in Chile, you would know that that is how everything is.Just because you have some money over there, you're automatically extremely right-winged I guess.This movie shows stories of people and families living in that social status and that is the reality. If something were changed in the movie, it wouldn't be genuine.It is a great movie and if you have the chance to watch it, I suggest you do. If you want to know a little more about Chilean culture, a little history about its economic background or simply just to check out another style of humor (which I think is better than the plain, boring humor that there is in the US). Its not a waste of time. Good luck on finding the subs. lol

vivachile This movie was the big hype of 2004 in Chile. The director visited almost every mass media he could to promote the film, even 3 months before its release on theaters. With this, the film had an amazing start at box offices, everybody went saying it was a big success. But let the truth be said now. The movie is awful. Director Nicolas Lopez portrays himself as the main character, a complete nerdy loser who is the object of rejection of everybody at school, the daddy boy of the class beats him, the new Spanish beauty almost ignores him. Everything goes bad for him. Director Lopez tried to imitate the style popularized by Spanish director Alex De la Iglesia, but tried to transplant it to Chilean idiosyncrasy. The result could have been much better if he had had a good script. Some superb Chilean actors as Fernando Farias, Ernesto Belloni and Kathy Kowaleczko are absolutely wasted here, given them such minimum characters which weren't properly developed. The result is a complete mess which is not funny nor entertaining. After this movie, seems very difficult for Lopez to get some new high budget to make a mainstream movie (this one cost more than a million dollar), so it seems he will be condemned to return to his infra cult circuit where he was born and probably will remain there for the rest of his movie director life.