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Balas & Bolinhos - O Regresso (2004)
Great!
If you like to laugh, no matter where you are from, you will enjoy this movie! It's a comedy based on basic humor that everyone can understand, and just like another Portuguese movie "Ninja das Caldas", made success and inspired a hole new wave of Portuguese directors that are revolutionizing the Portuguese cinema.
Note that since the golden age of the Portuguese movies (the 50 and 60 decades), this was the first Portuguese movie that manage to completely sold out tickets in Portuguese movies.
Once again, and like on the "Ninja das Caldas" movie, the Portuguese cable TV channel Sic Radical was the engine for this release, and changing on the Portuguese cinema.
O Ninja das Caldas (2001)
What this is...
This movie was the final university work for one of Hugo Guerra's class on the graduating he was studying. In that time, a radical Portuguese cable TV channel (SIC Radical), made a contest of amateur/home made movies. Hugo Guerra, the director of this movie decided to send his work for the contest, and he won. This movie is not good for the special effects, or the speeches, or anything else, but for the comedy because of the movie is so amateur. The movie is inspired on the Dragon Ball animated series, that made major success here in Portugal during maybe one, or one and half decades. Ninja das Caldas was also a major success on the TV, especially on the most young audience. This movie came to inspire a new wave of Portuguese young directors, changing the status of the Portuguese cinema. In the end, Hugo Guerra signed a contract with some film companies to make a "real" movie.
Duarte & C.a (1985)
Spetacular!
I have almost 22 years, in another words, i've born in 1984. Duarte & Companhia was made in 1985, but my very first memory about myself watching TV, is not watching sesame street or the muppet's show, but watching great series like the knight rider, or the a-team, and... Duarte & Companhia!!!
This series passed on TV for years... it's an awesome series, and i would love it if some producer decided to make a remake of this series, or even a movie!... Just watch it!! P.S. - This series is also known here in Portugal as the Portuguese Knightrider! (but with a very very low budget!!)