This live-action adaptation of a venerable Spanish comic strip offers plenty of summer school shenanigans and bright, brisk fun – but nothing for the grownups
Zip and Zap, or Zipi y Zape, are two cheeky mop-topped Spanish comic-strip characters brought to life here in a live-action feature film. It sees the pair sent away to a summer boarding school run by the dictatorial, eye-patch-wearing Falconetti, who believes that children should be seen and not heard and that fun is an impediment to personal growth. Zip and Zap baulk at such thinking and soon they and their marble gang are causing all manner of mischief, while trying to uncover the deeper secrets of this educational establishment.
Beyond speculating about whether Falconetti’s authoritarianism might be a sly reference to Franco-era Spain (the strip’s creator, José Escobar Saliente, was imprisoned after the civil war for union activity), adults are unlikely to find...
Zip and Zap, or Zipi y Zape, are two cheeky mop-topped Spanish comic-strip characters brought to life here in a live-action feature film. It sees the pair sent away to a summer boarding school run by the dictatorial, eye-patch-wearing Falconetti, who believes that children should be seen and not heard and that fun is an impediment to personal growth. Zip and Zap baulk at such thinking and soon they and their marble gang are causing all manner of mischief, while trying to uncover the deeper secrets of this educational establishment.
Beyond speculating about whether Falconetti’s authoritarianism might be a sly reference to Franco-era Spain (the strip’s creator, José Escobar Saliente, was imprisoned after the civil war for union activity), adults are unlikely to find...
- 3/31/2017
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
Zip (Raúl Rivas) and Zap (Daniel Cerezo) aren’t exactly delighted to be spending their summer vacation at Hope Re-Education Centre, a remote correctional facility in the Spanish countryside; even less so once they’ve met their new director, Falconetti (Javier Gutiérrez), a strict and severe man who has declared war on all things frivolous and fun. In response to school’s the oppressive rules and restrictions, which regularly see Zap relegated to solitary confinement for wanton acts of insubordination, the brothers form the Marble Gang, recruiting fellow students Filo (Fran García) and Micro (Marcos Ruiz) to their underground resistance. Together with Falconetti’s own niece, Matilda (Claudia Vega), the group cause mayhem around the school, inadvertently unearthing a treasure map hidden by the centre’s founder.
“It’s like a pirate movie; a map, a one-eyed man, and a hidden treasure.” Though Spanish cartoon characters Zip and Zap may...
“It’s like a pirate movie; a map, a one-eyed man, and a hidden treasure.” Though Spanish cartoon characters Zip and Zap may...
- 6/25/2014
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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