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at the time this movie was released in Brazil, it was a medium musical comedy, success of public, with known comedian like Costinha and the beautiful actress Annik Malvil.The purpose of the movie was to make the public laugh and it was reached. Nothing intellectual but funny.

This film is a chanchada (light-hearted Brazilian comedies with innocent and slapstick gags and often samba musical scenes) and it is a 007 spoof. As a satire of James Bond, it works quite well: his lack of stealth, his flirting skills, an evil enemy organization called by an acronym, a good-hearted Bong girl and an evil treacherous one, all the chases on cars and boats... The best gag about the British agent was the scene in which Larry Carr (James, agent 007 1/2), acompanied by a beautiful woman, asks in a bar: "A martini for her and a glass of milk for me... both very dry." His sidekick for accident, comedian Costinha, also has very funny moments and good jokes on the spying that everybody notices. It is nice to see other actors such as AlÁtila Iório (the bad guy of many films from the 60's and 70's and a star in the classic Barren lives) and Lúcio Mauro (he had no change as decades advanced). A funny innovation in the film is the way it is protrayed as a meta-movie: chaotic and legendary TV hoster Chacrinha appears almost directing the movie and its edition, commanding it to be remade many times. Not all those Chacrinha moments are funny, I shall admit, but the general concept is nice. What deffinitively did not work was the nonsense insertions of carnival music segments. It was a recurrent trait in chanchadas, but it had no connection to the story. Another problem was the edition. Sometimes it was part of the joke of Chacrinha ordering it to be changed, but in other moments it was just a weird unprofessional mistake. For example, from minute 50' to minute 60', the film became too chaotic and confusing due serious edition problems: only the lack of complexity of the story made it possible for spectator to follow it despite the fragmented sequence. One more last element may be highlighted: there are some situations which emulate "cartoon physics", and it may lead to some laughs: Jojóca dealing with the heavy box was probably the most clear example. To resume, the film is not amazing but it has good moments and some smart spoof gags for those who watched Bond movies.