Campeonex

Funny and enjoyable movie about a bungling team of mentallity disabled players who try to win a national campionship and to become themselves the Spanish champions. It results to be a song for diversity, freedom, camaraderie and friendship. This time the team of "Champions (2018)" abandons basketball to enter by mistake the riveting world of athletics under the guidance of a novice coach. With the arrival of a rookie coach, who is not lucky, that's why Cecilia has a reputation for being jinxed, the team becomes involved into the complex world of athletics, and at the beginning things go wrong. Cecilia has to join the old group, Los Amigos or 'The Friends' and subsequently train the team of botcher mentallity disabled players. And her principal objective: to get again the competent team capable to win the Spanish league. The time has come to give a new opportunity all again, showing that friendship and camaraderie are the key to success. While the first outing dealing with the motley group atempting to win the basketball national championship, this second entry concerns the athletics along with video-games competitions.

¨Campeonex¨ is a pleasant, sentimental and amusing comedy that transmits energy and fine spirit. The likeable roles and agreeable script use bewildering incidents to give us an attractive flick and keeps you entertained for the almost 125 minutes that the film lasts. Following the diverting and hard preparatives of the bungler team formed by outlandish competitors and eventually the exciting final competing match. A 'good feel movie', which shows the desire to improve oneself, the enthusiasm and the positive attitude that the intimate protagonists of this attractive story have towards life. Javier Fesser once again makes all audiences laugh through a politically incorrect flick with this sequel to 'Campeones', the highest-grossing film of 2018. Following the success of the first installment, is made this sequel: ¨Campeonex¨ that became the highest-grossing film of 2023. The most part of the film concerns in the elaborate process to train them, including a great number of laughters, mayhem, disasters and confusion. Through a series of values, the film demonstrates that any goal, no matter how unattainable it may seem, can be achieved, regardless of the labels you want to assign to it. In 'Campeonex', new characters join the team, such as the famous video game streamer Breinetor, Elisa Hipólito, who plays the new trainer, Jelen García, a social integrator who works at the occupational center where the protagonists are housed. Main and support cast provide charming interpretations. Real starring is Elisa Hipólito, she is well accompanied by a good support cast as the veteran Juán Margallo who has the same significant role in both the first and this second part. Along with a nice plethora of secondaries, actually mentally disabled, and special mention for Jesús Vidal who previously won Goya award as best newcomer secondary actor.

Being well financed by important producers: Alvaro Longoria, Luís Manso and Lucrecia Botin of the Botin family, who previously produced 'Altamira'. The motion picture was competently written, producted and directed by Javier Fesser and it got 2 nominations for the 2024 Goya Awards. Fesser is a comedy and humor expert who has written and directed a few films and shorts, such as: ¨Mortadelo and Filemon contra Jimmy el cachondo or mission implausible¨, ¨The big adventure of Mortadelo and Filemon¨, ¨Candida¨, ¨Camino¨, ¨The miracle of P. Tinto¨. And shorts as ¨Invictus¨, ¨Bienvenidos¨ and ¨17 year together¨. Rating 6.5/10. Better than average. Well worth watching. Fun for the whole family.