I'm for the Hippopotamus
by Italo Zingarelli
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Actor: Bud Spencer, Dawn Jürgens, Joe Bugner, May Dlamini, Terence HillDirector: Italo Zingarelli
Brand: MUSIC VIDEO DISTRIBUTORS
Cinematographer: Aiace Parolin
Writer: Italo Zingarelli
Producer: Roberto Palaggi
Producer: Vincent G. Cox
Writer: Amedeo Pagani
Writer: Barbara Alberti
Writer: Vincenzo Mannino
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Arabic (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 061404DVD
Studio: Televista
Product features:
- Two brothers (they may not look alike but have the same mother) are at odds on how to make a living in apartheid South Africa. Tom (Bud Spencer) runs a safari outfit while Slim (Terence Hill) tries to sabotage it due to his fondness for wildlife. Tom's guns are loaded with blanks however as he has a soft spot in his heart and loves animals as much as his brother. Both brothers join together, g
DVD Reviews of I'm for the Hippopotamus
DVD Review: Fun, even 30 years on
Summary: 4 Stars
I first saw this projected onto a bedsheet on a wall in 1980. I laughed until tears streamed down my cheeks (mind you I was just 15, and broad humour was considerably more funny to me then). 30 years or so on, I showed it to my 6 year old son on video, and the title song got stuck into his head. We had to sing it for days afterwards. The story is simple enough, but the interactions between Hill and Spencer are what make the show (that and the soundtrack).
I also liked the violence. It is stylized enough that it fits the cartoon violence standard of innocence. My son certainly appreciated that the bad guys were getting their just desserts, not that I think Hill and Spencer saw the film as a great teacher of life lessons. This is not a brilliant intellectual comedy, but it is watchable and remains funny, over and over again.
One possible flaw is the love story between Hill's character and a friend's daughter. It sort of appears, and then disappears without resolution. This is a mildly irritating loose end in a rather aimless plot, but not a dealbreaker.
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