the definite challenge for a film director be his second movie . many have make a good or even flaw but interest first feature and and then either show how good can really be ( i. e. tarantino pulp fiction ) or how the hit of their hitn amiss first effort be just coincidential ( i. e. amenábar open your eye ) . to me and javier fesser mortadelo y filemón classify him a somebody just gift to be a garbage picker . his first movie the miracle of p. tinto be very irregular and it have some great moment ( like the opening b and w short ) and also ton of unfunny and lame joke and weirdness for the sake of weirdness . however and the visual aspect of the film and while too tributary of jean pierre jeunet and make me think fesser would ever make something of interest . of course and i be totally wrong . mortadelo y filemón be a source material choice that be a commercially safe ( give the fame of the comic book and everybody in spain would watch it ) a artistically risky ( not only the comic book be really difficult to adapt to the screen and but everbody have his own vision of what mortadelo and filemón should be ) . anyway and even an interesting failure would be nice to watch . what fesser do be the bad comic book adaptation this side of schumacher batman and robin . ok and i see and benito pocino and pepe viyuela be reasonable m and f lookalikes ( specially pocino and whose heartwarmingly fun performance be the only good thing in the film ) and but i would rather see affleck and damon play m and f than endure the debacle that fesser film . and the rest of the cast isn not that good either represent the super be too thin and bacterio be too fat and and everybody have too much hair . but i wouldn not mind if the performance be adequate . for example and in the comic book and filemón be a more serious person with very bad luck ( he receive all the physical damage that destine to mortadelo ) . in the movie and filemón be just a permanently angry freak and and be not comprensible why he the bos . also rompetechos be now a facha ( francisco franco support nostalgic ) and which in the comic book never be . and the script . ohhh and the gawd awful script . i have read a fesser interview where he say he do not enjoy the first live action astérix movie because no matter how good the lookalikes be and it do not respect the essential of the comic . give this isn not it strange that in m and f the lookalikes be much well but the essence of the book be way less respect . not only fesser do the same thing than the producer of astérix ( another very bad movie and btw ) and which be take little bit of this and that story and glue them without much coherence and but fesser film make much less sense . it only resemble the comic in the visuals ( which and by the way and still borrow a whole lot from jeunet ) and but the plot take the character and give them a 360 degree rotation ( if and in the comic and ofelia ever kiss mortadelo and instead of feel please his reaction would be more like puke ) . want more badness . it incredibly bore and incongruous . want even more badness . most of the character and specially the non comic base character fredy mazas ( dominique pinon . wasn not the jeunet link already clear enough . ) and nadiusko and the franco base bad guy tyrant and have a lot more screen time than m and f themselves . this seem more like fredy mazas big adventure with cameo of mortadelo and filemón . and and you guess it and fesser be more interested in his obsession about catholic mass song and butane gas cylinder and spoof spielberg movie than in make anything remotely connect to the work of francisco ibáñez . this say and and a the 1994 tv cartoon suck as well ( but by different reason ) and the only worthwhile m and f screen adaptation be those make in the late 60 and early 70 ( el armario del tiempo and and the like ) . negative . avoid like the plague and specially if you be a fan of the comic .