My Friends Act II (1982)
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
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In front of Pisa's leaning tower, tourists from various countries queue to visit the world-famous building. Suddenly, four men dressed in orange uniforms jump from a vehicle of "Towers maintenance". After gauging the inclination of the tower, they organize visitors, shouting alarm warnings and orders by megaphone: on one side, those who support the building with their bare hands; on the other, those who hold it by means of a long rope. Police sirens are hear approximating the location. The four flee in the truck, while tourists remain in their places with goofy air. On the run, the four cheaters are stopped by a police officer who demands the driver his license. Presenting it and after a moment of awe, they discover that the document belongs to the driver's wife's lover. In fact, the husband himself had inducted her to infidelity, by pointing, by pure joke, her "unknown admirer". Leap in time. It is the moment of confrontation of the husband, owner of a restaurant, with the "rival", now a customer of the establishment. The wife, displaying a black eye as punishment for her treason, warns her man of the alleged lover presence. The expectation of a scene of blood fades in a more prosaic, ridiculing and "tasty" vengeance,: the client is forced to take down, to the last drop, a bowl of soup enriched with the urine of the "ristorante" owner. These sequences reveal the way Mario Monicelli filmed comedy. The comic situations, in a bittersweet tone, meet and interpenetrate. Some of the episodes have markedly satirical character; in general, evil deeds the protagonists plan and apply on people passing by. Sometimes, however, the circumstances of their mediocre lives and somewhat advanced age turn them into victims, in situations more or less tragic and irreversible — such as the unwanted pregnancy of a young daughter or the death of a irreverence comrade, whose tomb they visit at the beginning of the film. Still, even a disaster as the 1966' flooding of Florence can be object of a sentence or a flippant proposal. The comic effect is a result of the decoupage and editing of such an illogical succession/interpenetration of eccentric events. Thus, Monicelli active spectator's emotions that go beyond cathartic laughter in front of a merely ridiculous unusual, confusing, eschatological, etc. situation. All very different from the current Hollywood teen comedies, full of eschatology transformed without any creativity into cliché.
I think that this may be the best comedy sequel ever. The first movie showed how 5 guys at their 40ies can still have fun and enjoy doing jokes at everybody. This movie continues from the point the first one has ended (Giorgio Perozzi's death) and shows us the rest of the guys at his grave remembering some great jokes they have done in the past. The comedy moments that this movie offers are (most of the times) better than the first film and the actors seem to have the same passion and joy as several years ago. The most funny of all is Ugo Tognazzi as Conte Lello Mascetti, a truly larger than life character. Maybe the best film about male friendship and along with "I soliti ignoti" the best Italian comedy by far!
This lost and practically unknown movie is one of the great lost treasures of the cinema. I found a copy for rent in Brazil or all places, so it was released on video in countries outside the US. If you like Italian movies, Comedies, and movies that you walk away from feeling great about life make it your crusade to find this gem. The acting is wonderful, you'll find yourself lost in the movie and thinking as the sixth friend as they go from one hilarious escapade to another. The "wallet" scene is priceless, the cemetery scene is like nothing before or after I've yet to see in a comedy. Hopefully this movie will be "discovered" again and available in VHS or DVD soon.
The best comedy ever made on earth . There's no glamour of production , only the real and simple life of 5 men who stops whatever they're doing when called to do some mess.It shows that friendship can be important(or more) as family but not the sad way...One of the crucial moments happens when they meet together in a plot to put the tourists to hold the Pisa Tower with an explanation that if they don't it will fall...Hilarious!!!There's another situation when they enter a musical contest in a convent where the judges are priests but the song they sang is full of dirty words.It is a very difficult movie to find(rare) but you should see it!!!