✔️ 2022-05-10 00:04:17 – Paris/France.
Between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s, a Mexican television show called "Another Roll" gained popularity in various countries through cable television. Even without the mass internet, social media, let alone pirated shows on YouTube or Facebook, thousands of viewers from countries like Peru, enjoyed two hours (sometimes much more) of humor and world-class guests. . All covered by a millionaire budget that only the giant Televisa could guarantee you.
In this program, many segments stood out. To the international guests already mentioned and the humorous sketches, it was however a segment which captivated with a particular trepidation. We are talking about the "monologue", masterfully performed week after week by Adal Ramones, a half-caste comedian, small, with an aquiline nose and who, show after show, surprised us with a different hat from the previous one.
Ramones -and his team of librettists- prepared one theme a week and on it he would quip and satirize in every way any of us could imagine. Searching YouTube for the videos of the first monologues and comparing them with those performed the last year of the program, we learn one thing: the effect was always the same, laughter everywhere.
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Although stand-ups aren't new at all, Adal's style marked an era. Perhaps for this reason, when his program was taken off the air, hundreds of people paid very expensive tickets to see him in theaters in Central America, South America and the United States. United. The imprint of this humorist who looked like any of us pushed some of us to follow in his footsteps. Thus, he was seen participating in one or another reality show (as a driver he even went to Televisa's rival network, Azteca), but also in series and films.
But it is on Netflix that the presence of the Ramones seems set to give new impetus. The success of the famous “Another Roll” may explain why “Cuarentones”, the recently released film in which he co-stars with Erick Elías and Gaby Espino, is at the top of the ranking of the most watched films in Latin America. . The years, and it is worth saying, do not pass in vain. The actor is now sixty years old and almost everything on his face confirms this. However, this is not the subject of this note, but to comment on the comedy that Pietro Loprieno saw fit to write and direct.
“Cuarentones” tells the story of two friends and cooking partners: César (Erick Elías) and Paolo (Adal Ramones). Both seem to spend their days without major shocks at the L'Allegría restaurant. It is a medium-sized, independent or "entrepreneur" establishment, characterized not only by its good Italian cuisine, but fundamentally by an unusual factor in gastronomy: entertainment.
“Cuarentones” is a Mexican comedy in Streaming /Netflix
In addition to cooking in the middle of the dining room, César and Paolo almost gave their lives in the restaurant they manage. There, they tell each other everything that happens to them on a daily basis. So we quickly find out that Paolo has two ex-wives in Italy, one of whom is asking for 10 euros for his son's college. However, this problem seems minimal if we see behind the scenes: César lives a terrible bad sequence that the scenario quickly decides to reveal: his wife cheated on him for 000 years on the false paternity of the child that they had both. As if that were not enough, overnight, his mother loses her life.
From there, “Cuarentones” offers a second wind. The chef friends have won a trip to participate in an independent restaurant competition to be held in Cancun. The price: 20 thousand dollars. Although visibly shaken emotionally by his personal problems, César agrees to participate with his friend Paolo. It should be mentioned here that, although we are dealing with a comedy, and although it is extremely difficult to separate the actor Ramones from the Ramones who performed the monologues in "Otro roll", the proposal here is of a much quieter humor.
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Already in Cancun, the chefs must advance step by step in the days that the contest lasts. But it's not all about food and qualifying juries. "Cuarentones" includes a couple of friends who fit in perfectly with César and Paolo. With the first is Naomi, played by experienced Venezuelan actress Gaby Espino. While with the second is Selina (Sonia Couoh).
The plot proposal of Pietro Loprieno's film is simple: a man who does everything possible so that his best friend quickly overcomes the misfortunes that fate has brought him. In the middle is added not only a beautiful face like Naomi's, but above all a woman capable of engaging in interesting conversations, which make Caesar react and even seem to pull him out of the hole on more than one occasion.
What's the best thing about this movie? The first, without a doubt: each actor represents the age that the story suggests. In the central, Erick Elías, on whom the greatest demand for acting falls. At 41, this actor has just performed before the start of the pandemic the most expensive remake of "Ugly Betty", that is to say "Betty in New York". It was not easy for Elías to step into the shoes of Jorge Enrique Abello to bring Armando Mendoza to life, in a modern and very progressive version of a classic Latin American soap opera.
Adal Ramones is part of the cast of “Cuarentones” / Netflix
In "Cuarentones", Elías seems to fill the role of a father of this age just enough who suddenly has to deal with two situations that could drive anyone crazy. As for Ramones and Espino, we can say that the first brings everything that can make us laugh in a film, while the second captivates with an undeniable ease.
And if it's time to write down weaknesses, it would be impossible not to mention how easily small dramas get diluted throughout much of the story. Like when Caesar's mother dies from one moment to the next, or when he discovers out of nowhere that he must separate from his son. That is, when it looks like the storyline can be strengthened, a scene change cuts everything and starts over. Finally, the appearance of a series of characters like the organizer of the competition or the very "conqueror" of Paolo, whose roles in the long run do not seem justified.
Once the additions and subtractions are done, "Cuarentones" is a comedy that fulfills its objective of making us laugh. Its pillars are clear: an experienced comedian and an actor with a dazzling present, inserts in 90 minutes that will help us understand how leaning on our friends can be the best way out of a bad moment.
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Synopsis: After learning a bitter truth, a chef joins his best friend and business partner in a cooking contest in Cancun to spice up his life.
Original title: " 40 years "
81 minutes
Classification: 14
Gender: Comedy
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