Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi: O Filme

The film mixes animation and live action, with cameo of celebrities (not really the most interesting ones, and actually one of them is despicable...). It begins with a preamble with a tribute to cinema, which has very nice parody ideas with Mônica's Gang characters (indeed, it is the best part of the whole movie), but in a videoclip style, very fragmented and undevelopped (as a sequence of parodies, and not a proper story, similarly to what Maurício de Souza interestingly also made with famous paintings and sculptures, making Mônica Lisa and other works). The stories here are a little silly, clearly directed to children and with little interest for adults even though they grew up reading Mônica's Gang comic strips. There are few nice gags, and no charming moment (except for the aforementioned tribute to cinema, although having a vampirized Mônica or a monster-Sansão is not trivial, I must admit). Franjinha creates an invention that transforms comic stories into films, and basically the movie presents different uninspired segments, interwined with the live action cameos and sponsor merchandising.