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Supervip and Minivip are brothers, born from the union of a superhero
(a vip, as they are called here) and a human woman. But Supervip and
Minivip couldn't be more different, while Supervip is a bona fide
superhero with all the powers you'd expect (superstrength, the ability to
fly, invulnerrability, great looks, ...), Minivip is a weakling whose only
power it is to fly really slowly a few feet above the ground. It comes as
no surprise that Minivip is eternally jealous of his super brother, but
Supervip really cares for Minivip, so he sends him on a cruise incognito,
so Minivip can enjoy being himself without the eternal shadow of Supervip.
That doesn't go too well though, as Minivip eventually falls off the
cruiseship, and it's only luck that he's saved by ... a lion in a dinghy!? Eventually,
Minivip and the lion make it to an uncharted island, where they are almost
immediately captured by the Colonel, chief guard of villainess Happy
Betty. Supervip has meanwhile grown sick with worry over his disappeared
brother, so he decides to investigate himself, and it doesn't take him
long to free Minivip from the Colonel ... but not the lion, and Minivip
insists to save him as well. Supervip storms into Happy Betty's place,
breaks down doors and walls as he pleases, and it doesn't take him long to
find the lion ... who turns out to be a beautiful female scientist in
disguise. Supervip falls in love on the spot, and forgets his obligations
to his brother and everything. Minivip in the meantime checks out the
place and finds out that Happy Betty, international supermarket owner,
plans to shoot rockets into everyone's brains ... to make them all shop in
her supermarkets. She must be stopped of course, but with Supervip pretty
much out of the way, it's up to Minivip to do the work. All of this is not
made any easier that Happy Betty wants to capture Minivip to try her brain
rocket on him. After much to and fro, during which Minivip actually finds
a girl of his own, everything ends happily though, with Happy Betty's
rocket launch base destroyed, she having fallen prey to her own
brainrocket, and our heroes and their girlfriends landing in church -
quite literally. Now this is a fun film: A superhero parody
only on the outside, this is actually a spoof of turbo-consumerism and
communism alike, and it achieves its goal not only in its totally
over-the-top story but also in a bunch of borderline-surreal sight gags, a
few weird song-and-dance numbers, humour that mixes childish jokes with
those of a rather political and adult nature, and Bruno Bozzetto's
trademark predilection for wicked mechanics. Add to this Bozzetto's very
own style regarding both character and background design, and you got
yourself a pretty good piece of animation!
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