User Reviews

I could write an ironic review of this movie, like I did with "É Fada", Kéfera Buchmann's 2016 movie, but I won't this time.

I went to the movies expecting something on the same level, I already had the jokes ready even before I had seen it, but I ended positively surprised. It's no Clint Eastwood, but it's very solid.

There are various stories that line up in one, which is an internet celebrities' party, but it's 50/50. The best plot lines were Cesinha's, Fabiana's and Zika's, and pretty much every single other was lame.

I have seen Rafinha Bastos' stand up comedies and noticed a pattern: a Jerry Seinfeld pattern. Yes, he has adapted a lot of Jerry Seinfeld's jokes, specially in "A Arte do Insulto", and to be quite frank, I don't see a problem in that, as long as it's funny. But in this movie I not only see a Larry David-like plot (in Cesinha's and Fabiana's plots more strongly), but I see direct references from the show. Adalgamir is Crazy Joe Davola, and his Elaine is Cesinha Passos. His room is exactly like Davola's apartment: a sanctuary to the person he's obsessed with. And not only that, his scream after the death of Adalgamir "eu sou muito cuzão" is not only identical in performance to George's iconic "Khan!" scream, but even the camera work is the same: it goes higher and higher, spinning around, as the character shouts a single word as loud as he can.

That apart, let's talk about Fabiana. She's the only reasonable human being in the entire movie, Cesinha apart. She understands what youtubers do and is morally firm and coherent, when she becomes that monster she so despised, she tries to undo it all, because that's a nightmare to her. Even when the watcher is induced to think she's trying to take advantage out of her new fame, she actually isn't.

Zika's line is a clear mocking of Anonymous or people like that. Internet users who think they have more power than they actually do. And somehow, in an ironic and brilliant way, it speaks about most ideology struggles we live nowadays. Be it violent protesters who say destroying property is all right as long as it's a protest or ideological hipsters who think they live in XIX century Japan, having delusions of being greater than the modern world, and don't accept how time's positively evolved almost everything.

Overall, if you try to watch it thinking it's a movie of a polemic internet celebrity, you'll not understand the best of it, because you'll deny it. But once you understand that you can point what's good and what sucks in the movie clearly, seeing that it's overall pretty good, you can enjoy it and have an epiphany or two that helps you understand a little of some groups' behavior.