Mar 24, 2013

Non c'è due senza quattro

Double trouble!

Hello fellow internet connoisseurs of the fabulous world of B movies. Today, we shall continue with my childhood's favorite couple: Terence Hill & Bud Spencer. Non C'é Due Senza Quattro, AKA Double Trouble is yet another classic Hill/Spencer film filled with humor, joyful, mirth and amusement . 

Released in 1984, the original italian title translates better as "there can't be two without four", revealing some major plot spoiler. Anyways, it's an entertaining film with the notorious duo posing as millionaires in sunny Rio and full of abundant kicks , punches , leaps and bounds . The picture deals with ours intimate friends , Terence Hill and Bud Spencer and they both find out that are inseparable partners taking on numerous adventures . This action/comedy deals with Greg Wonder (Bud Spencer) and Elliot Vance (Terence Hill) , two characters utterly different . Wonder is a bouncing man who recently got out of prison who plays saxophone at a jazz bar in New Orleans , while Vance is an adventurer who pilots little aircrafts . Both of whom are hired by a secret organization to replace two soft-spoken millionaire cousins named Antonio Coimbra de la Coronilla y Acevedo (Spencer) and Bastiano Coimbra de la Coronilla y Acevedo (Hill) living in Brazil and who look exactly like them. The friends learn their effeminate and cocky manners , training themselves for replacing and wearing elegant Brazilian clothes. At the very end takes place an amusing confrontation among Hill-Spencer , theirs shy doubles against a group of well-armed mercenaries.

Lookalikes!
Brazilian ass.
The film contains action , fist-play , humor with tongue-in-cheek and is pretty bemusing . It's an entertaining film with enjoyable comedy in the wake of Trinity and Bambino , both of them playing a double character . The big time duo from Spahetti Western wrapped in humor as ¨They call me Trinity ¨ and its following as ¨Trinity is still my name¨ and ¨Trouble makers¨ were run out and then they're transfered to Police and action genre . As they played the Miami series which are set in Florida , such as ¨Miami Supercops¨, ¨Crime Busters¨, and ¨Superfuzz¨ . This time Miami is substituted by Rio De Janeiro , as the picture shows typical images from Rio as the usual Christ of Corcovado , Samba parades and of course the famous Carnaval. 

Original promo art from 1984.
More Brazilian ass.
In Europe & South America these movies are shown on TV very frequently and are part of growing up on children and adolescents , however in the USA they are quite unknown . They're plenty of humor and based on diverse personality and physical differences among them . This one packs silly comedy , tongue-in-cheek, slapstick and the habitual struggles neither blood , nor violence, besides including some pursuits .

Agreeable casting with a likable Terence Hill and a grumpy Bud Spencer , playing amusingly their customary roles as always. There appears the nasty Nello Pazzafini , an ordinary from Peplum and Spahetti , though isn't Ricardo Pizzuti, Hill-Spencer's habitual antagonist and whom receives the knocks and kicks . 

Rich sissy bastards.
Pimp my ride,  before pimp my ride ever existed.
Adequate and colorful cinematography By Silvano Ippoliti , Sergio Corbucci's usual . Commercial , jolly musical score by Micolizzi , including Samba songs and in Guido and Mauricio De Angelis style . The motion picture is professionally directed by Enzo Barboni or E. B. Clucher . He was a prestigious cameramen including classic Spaghetti Western ( Django, Goobye Texas , Hellbenders ), but with the hit of ¨Trinity is my name¨ left it and turned to film-making , and directed the sequel ¨Trinity is still my name¨ and the third outing ¨Trinity and Bambino, the legend lives on¨, plus other Hill and Spencer vehicles in solitary as ¨Renegado Jim¨, ¨Even angels eat beans¨ and ¨El Magnifico¨ . The film is absolutely hilarious for Hill and Spencer enthusiasts and ranks among their less famous but most representative ones ; a must see for all their fans. Rating : Mediocre but entertaining . 

Here is the original italian trailer:

2 comments:

Flashback-man said...

Jajaja que buen review acá se conoció como dos puños contra Rio, Como dato fue la primera vez que una productora italiana pagara tanto por un artista 1 millon cada uno, ademas es la comedia que en su momento mas cautivo a los Brasileños, adictos al futol.
Terences Hill como Eliot dice: "el Hecho es que el se hace llamar tango, en la tierra del Samba, diles que el es un completo idiota" Notable.

Saludos

SPAM Alternative said...

exacto, cuando estaba escribiendo la crítica tenía en mente poner esa frase y al final se me olvidó.

Esta película es simplemente genial.