Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure

Mortadelo & Filemon : The Big Adventure is a 2003 Spanish-language comedy film based on the popular Spanish comic book series Mortadelo y Filemón by Francisco Ibáñez Talavera. It also included characters from 13, Rue del Percebe, another comic by the same creator. The film was directed by Javier Fesser and stars Benito Pocino and Pepe Viyuela. It became the second highest-grossing Spanish film of all time.

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Plot

The adventure begins when a spy breaks into Professor Bacterio's lab and steals some of his inventions from the T.I.A. headquarters. Mortadelo and Filemón who work for the T.I.A. are put on the case, but Fredy, another agent, decides to beat them to it. One of the inventions is a weather control machine which the spy decides to sell to the President of Tirania, a small Eastern European dictatorship. There are numerous clashes between the spy, Fredy, and Mortadelo and Filemón. Our heroes end up in prison after accidentally beating up the local cop once too often. They escape, Filemon's mother gets kidnapped by Fredy and taken to Tirania. The spy is killed in Fredy's place as Fredy ingratiates himself with the President, while having Filemón's mother tortured. The heroes arrive and there is a big battle where Filemón is apparently killed. Then Mortadelo receives a mortal wound, but Filemón gives him a cup of water, which turns out to be the Holy Grail, Mortadelo drinks it and heals quickly, while Fredy gets his just deserts. Mortadelo and Filemón return home, their mission successfully accomplished.

Cast

Benito Pocino as Mortadelo
Pepe Viyuela as Filemón
Dominique Pinon as Fredy
Paco Sagarzazu as The President
Mariano Venancio as Superintendent Vincente
as Professor Bacterio
as Ofelia
Gustamante as a mosquito
María Isbert as Filemón's mother
Emilio Gavira as Rompetechos
as President's servant
as The spy who started it all off
Paco Hidalgo as President's torturer
Javier Aller as Mickey El Gigante
as Security guard at T.I.A.
Joan Gadea as a crooked shopkeeper.
Juan Peiró as someone who keeps getting run over
Andrés Gasch as Matraca, a very large man who has it in for Filemon
Manuel Pizarro as a thief
Coyito Fernández as a cop
Emiliana Olmedo as Queen Elizabeth II
The people of Gijón
The people of Valencia where much of it was filmed including the final parade and also Madrid.

Reception

Box office

The film set an opening weekend record for a Spanish film with a gross of €5.1 million, second only to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It grossed 22.8 million euros in Spain, becoming the second highest-grossing Spanish film of all-time behind Los otros.

Sequels

A second film titled Mort & Phil. Mission: Save Earth was announced and released in 2008, it featured most of the same cast reprising their roles with the exception of Benito Pocino as Mortadelo, it was panned by critics and fans for its humor and writing while the performances were praised.