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Good for laugh from the cinematic blockbuster duo of the eighties : Esteso and Pajares
ma-cortes11 March 2023
Typically fun Fernando Esteso and Andrés Pajares film with its ups and downs. This is a politically incorrect comedy that today would be difficult to shoot . Two apprentice scammers : Andrés Pajares , Fernando Esteso meet in a clinic on the Costa del Sol disguising as hospital workers . The Hospital ¨La Operadora¨ is on the verge of bankruptcy and totally discredited. To try to rehabilitate their medical image , those in charge of the clinic -Alfonso del Real, Adrián Ortega- decide to take advantage of the presence of a famous politician patient -Juanito Navarro- to advertise themselves , waiting for the arrival of television cameras. At the same time the couple of swindlers posing as a doctor and a nurse try to evade a lot of money taking advantage of the opportunity to hide it . So they take advantage of the arrival of an important authority , but things go wrong.

A typical Mariano Ozores movie with the usual elements , such as : fun, irony, crazy ingredients and lots of nudism. The film is a shocking mess, where the stereotype, the farce and the politically incorrect are rampant. This incorrectness would be plausible if the plot and its situations had more grace and creativity apart from the "sexploitation" and the humorous approach to the mocking picturesqueness at the hospital or health situation. With a cast full of well-known faces of the time, here are two scammers looking to pick up any girl they meet along the way .There's also an Ozores-style critique of the health system. Peculiar characters, bombshell women, a crazy and naughty story are mixed in the film. Not the best out of the string of movies churned out by the four man team Andrés Pajares, Fernando Esteso , Antonio Ozores and director Mariano Ozores but it does has some laugh out loud moments and is a certain reflection of the attitudes of the day. Pajares and Esteso usually made a hit couple in a number of films and achieved much success in the 80s . And ¨Agitese antes de usarla¨along with ¨Los Liantes¨ were two of their greatest successes , but their big hit was really ¨Los Bingueros¨. The movies they played were funny and with many support actors . The films were in short budget and lackluster but including comedy and lots of fun . Those contained many nude girls , laughs and slapstick , being mostly directed by Mariano Ozores , a craftsman filmmaker and writer , in fact he wrote the disconcerting screenplay , he recently won a Goya Award (2016) to his long and fruitful career . Here shows up the usual ¨Destape¨ actresses at the time , such as : Beatriz Escudero , Lali Espinet , Nadine Rochex and Jenny Llada. And a main entertainment of the film is to observe who's the next familiar secondary actor appearing throughout the film , as follows: Tomás Zori , Arévalo, José Lifante , Adrián Ortega , Alberto Fernández , Luis Lorenzo, Emma Ozores, Emilio Fornet , Juanito Navarro , among others.

Resulting in an amusing but so-so Spanish comedy film and with its ups and downs . Agitese antes de usarla (1983) is a mediocre picture , being middlingly directed by Mariano Ozores with his habitual trademarks and had much success in the Spanish box office . Mariano's family origin is into show business , being son of Mariano Ozores Sr and brother of José Luis Ozores and Antonio Ozores . Furthermore , uncle of Adriana Ozores and Emma Ozores . He has a prolific career , and many actors and technicians worked and ate thanks to the huge success of his films . Mariano Ozores is a writer and director , especially in comedy genre such as : Disparate Nacional , Tahiti's Girl , Brujas Magicas , Los Presuntos , Cuatro Mujeres Y Un Lío , Tío ¿De Verdad Vienen De París? , Alcalde Por Elección , Ellas Los Prefieren... Locas , El Apolítico , Jenaro El De Los 14 , Manolo La Nuit , El Abuelo Tiene plan , La Llamaban La Madrina , La Graduada , Venta Por Pisos and many others . Being his ordinary actors , the followings : Alfredo Landa , Lina Morgan , Paco Martínez Soria , Antonio Ozores , Jose Luis Ozores , Juanito Navarro and , of course , Fernando Esteso and Andrés Pajares . If you want to have fun do not think more and tries to see this movie.
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