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Totò nella Luna

Totò in the Moon

Italy 1958
produced by
Marcio Cecchi Gori for Maxima Film, Variety, Montfluor Film
directed by Steno
starring Totò, Sylva Koscina, Ugo Tognazzi, Sandra Milo, Luciano Salce, Richard McNamara, Agostino Salvietti, Renato Tontini, Jim Dolen, Giacomo Furia, Anna Maria Di Giulio, Francesco Mulé, Marco Tulli, Salvo Libassi, Ignazio Leone, Lamberto Artinori
story by Lucio Fulci, Steno, screenplay by Sandro Continenza, Ettore Scola, Steno, music by Alexandre Derevitsky

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Achille (Ugo Tognazzi) is an unpublished and unsuccessful science fiction author who's in love with Lidia (Sylva Koscina), the daughter of Pasquale (Totò), the publisher whose magazine he works for - and Pasquale wouldn't touch his science fiction stories with a stick. Furthermore he's strictly opposed to the relationship between Achille and Lidia - that is until it's discovered by the NASA that Achille has monkey's blood in his blood and is therefore the only person on the whole world probably to withstand the strain of a trip to space. Thing is, when this is proposed to Achille, he thinks the NASA agents are literary agents who want to publish his book in the USA. When Pasquale learns though that what he also perceives as literary agents are interested in Achille, he pretty much forces him into marrying Lidia (not that there's much actual forcing to do), then has his book printed to beat the Americans to the punch. When everybody finds out what's really going on though, and Achille simply refuses to be shot to space, even if he would make a fortune and a half if he'd agree, Pasquale gets so angry that he hooks up with some German agents who want to kidnap Achille to use him for their own space experiment. But once he has presented Achille to them on a silver platter, Pasquale too is captured by the Germans to be shot into space. Enter an alien from outer space though whose people don't want humans in outer space and who's thus to replace both Achille and Pasquale by pod people, and ... well, everything ends in a giant mix-up and in the end the real Pasquale is shot into orbit with the fake Achille, but the aliens redirect the spaceship to the moon, where Achille is to spend the rest of his life (moon has an atmosphere in this one) - but at least the aliens give him a sexy moon-woman to have someone to spend the rest of his life with ...

 

Mildly funny light comedy that has a few hilarious moments, but more often than not tries to milk its good jokes for way too long to actually remain amusing. The science fiction elements by the way are rather down-played in this one, and the alien rather disappointingly is nothing more than two animated floating eyes, but at least the whole thing pays loving hommage to vintage (well, then current) pulps. Still, it's certainly not the worst comedy, not even the worst Italian comedy you've ever seen, but it's a good bit less than great or even especially memorable.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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