Mauricio de Souza is the best children comics writer alive. Turma da Mônica (Monica's gang) stories accompanied and inspired the childhood of most children in Brazil from the 70s until nowadays. Chico Bento is one of his most loved characters.
Unfortunately, this movie didn't make him justice at all. It was also disappointing to see that one of the writers of the great humor show Choque de Cultura (Raul Checker) couldn't save this script.
Dialogues were bad, a lot of jokes that didn't land (not even the kids in the theater laughed, very cringing), characters very inconsistent which seemed to belong to different movies. Things that didn't even make sense: how can a entrepreneur who owns a speedboat have such an old truck and be so happy dressed?
A very simple story with not much going on. Some mild social criticism which wasn't able to make the movie worth a watch.
Chico Bento character was very charismatic but of course couldn't hold up the movie.
But the worst for me was the fake "caipira" accent, which was butchered by the cast from Rio de Janeiro. Aren't there actors in Goiás or Minas Gerais which could be casted?
Gave it a 5 because Chico Bento actor was really lovable (although he could only do so much with those silly lines they gave him)
