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Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible
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Wikipedia article
'Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible' (, "Mortadelo and Filemon versus Jimmy the Joker") is a 2014 Spanish 3D computer-animated comedy co-written, directed and edited by 'Javier Fesser' based on the characters from the 'Mort & Phil' comic book series. It achieved six nominations for the 29th Goya Awards, winning in the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Animated Film categories, and two for the second edition of Premios Feroz.
Plot
After installing his 30th Vault, Super, the head of the spy agency called "T.I.A" (a play on the name C.I.A, also a spy agency) receives a message from Jimmy "The Crazy" The agency's main enemy successfully steals the vault, Super calls the unlucky Phil and his sidekick Mort (After the first one had a dream where he was respected and admired by everyone), when he discovers that a guy he held in jail named "Tooth breaker" (Rompemuelas) has escaped, and thirsty with rage to apply the technique of "El UiUiUi" (turn the victim inside out).
At the agency, a furious Rompemuelas ends up being sedated by Professor Bacterio's invention, called Reversiccina, which totally changes his angry and intimidating appearance to a kind and polite person,super orders that Phil and Mort take Rompemuelas to a witness protection program, after a chase across town for a Rompemuelas in a runaway baby stroller, the trio stop at a reality show, where accidentally a Rompemuelas Reversiccinaded speaks the whole Super's plan in front of 200 million viewers.
Jimmy, outraged by his cousin saying he knows where his hiding place is, destroys the T.I.A. HQ roof, Super orders Mort and Phil again to take Rompemuelas to their house, taking advantage that Rompemuelas is disoriented by reversiccina, they force him to do housework, such as darning, ironing, washing and cooking. Phil provokes Rompemuelas by joking about the fact that his father didn't want him, so Rompemuelas threatens Phil who, despite being reversicinated, can still do "El UiUiUi" on him. Above them, an angry Jimmy and his henchmen attempt to destroy the building his cousin was in, hilariously failing.On the ground floor of the apartment where they were staying, Rompemuelas finds a little old man, half blind, thinks that Rompemuelas is a child and decides to take him to the police station, when the effect of Reversiccina wears off, Rompemuelas takes the wheel and goes to the hideout from his cousin to alert him that he is wanted.
Convinced that Rompemuelas was kidnapped by Jimmy, Phil and Mort decide to go rescue him, Jimmy intends to destroy the T.I.A once and for all with a missile, after seeing that the duo "destroyed" his hiding place. Rompemuelas using a crane, catches the duo on a"homemade plane", very similar to Phil's dream, he launches both towards Jimmy, that was heading towards T.I.A with the missile, an intense aerial battle takes place to prevent the destruction of the HQ, however, in an act of distraction, Phil unintentionally releases the missile he was holding, hitting the T.I.A and literally throwing her through the air.
Rompemuelas appears again with a dog catcher car, following Jimmy's helicopter in search of the little old man. When Phil teases him that he forgot his shoes with him, growling and huffing, he finally does the "El UiUiUi" technique. When he finally prevents the little old man from having a bad fall, Rompemuelas assumes he wants to change his life and they head off into the sun, Jimmy annoyed at having his plan go down the drain, decides to blow them both up after pressing a button that transforms his helicopter, despite all detonated,seeing that the duo still was mocking him, Jimmy threatens to throw a bomb towards the duo, they try to buy time talking to Jimmy, which doesn't work and causes Jimmy to press the button, hilariously, the T.I.A HQ literally falls on him, brutally crushing him.
After retrieving the envelope for Super, who was in the hospital, Phil and Mort are outraged to learn that what was inside was just a simple sweet potato puree recipe,after Mort and Phil literally force Super to swallow his vault, Super is searching for both of them with a fishing spear in Antarctica, while both are in disguise, waiting for the problems get "cold".
In a post opening credits scene, it is seen that Phil used the last dose of Reversiccin to make a woman in the T.I.A. HQ fall in love with him.
Characters
The portrayal of the characters is rather faithful to the comics except for Mortadelo and Filemon: Mortadelo has far more common sense and Filemon is actually quite dumb while in the comics, it was the opposite
The T.I.A. Staff
'Mortadelo:' The Subordinate of Filemon and Super. Despite being a bit clumsy, he's rather cunning, resourceful and has invented several gadgets on his own to protect his apartment. He has incredible skill in disguising himself as virtually anything ranging from animals to professionals outfits, machinery etc...Like everyone else, he cares very little about his boss and has often prove that he might be actually more competent than Filemon.'Filemn': The Boss of Mortadelo. Initially presentend as the "Straight-Man" to Mortadelo's "Ditz" in the comics, his portrayal into the movies is different: extremely stupid, arrogant, cowardly, bossy and incompetent, he's also incredibly accident-prone, capable of being injured in comical and painful ways.
He spent most of his time dreaming that he's a great hero but is despised by everyone and tries to avoid vengeful foes who he has arrested in the past.
Voice cast in Spanish
Box office
The film's production budget is estimated at $12.5 million. In Spain, the film grossed 4.9 million ($5.5 million).
Awards and nominations
References
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