Ettore Scola had done a great movie about people living in slums. It was farcical and many liked it, I liked most of it but couldn't find it delicious because of its worst moments of ugly sordid reality. To me this feels sick to get a kick out of this.
Torrente goes full throttle on the dumb and dirty reality that some might find great fun. It had some great laughs I admit, but for me these laughs - scattered within the cheap ludicrous grins - were the most natural, low-fat, jokes. Fortunately there are no fart or puke jokes but, hey, Torrente is a big farting load of puke all the same.
And even if I admit this stuff is not for me I can still say that a movie, even a not-the-least-serious movie, that brings in nice little supporting characters to kill them the next minute, just for fun, is plain wrong. That's why I won't pinpoint the good things in Torrente. Basically, Outrageous Fun can be roaringly funny but it takes more than piling up dirty jokes and cheap tricks.
Torrente goes full throttle on the dumb and dirty reality that some might find great fun. It had some great laughs I admit, but for me these laughs - scattered within the cheap ludicrous grins - were the most natural, low-fat, jokes. Fortunately there are no fart or puke jokes but, hey, Torrente is a big farting load of puke all the same.
And even if I admit this stuff is not for me I can still say that a movie, even a not-the-least-serious movie, that brings in nice little supporting characters to kill them the next minute, just for fun, is plain wrong. That's why I won't pinpoint the good things in Torrente. Basically, Outrageous Fun can be roaringly funny but it takes more than piling up dirty jokes and cheap tricks.