A genuine fun comedy starring only the best of the genre

"The Three Outlaws" is a hilarious Brazilian comedy from the 1950's, carrying the usual style for its period, very common place and starring three comedy legends: the great Ankito, the always priceless Roland Golias usually playing Bronco the "mister-know-it-all" kind, and the national treasure Grande Otelo. Here, they play common and wimp characters who pretend to have courage and power to defeat a gang of outlaws that terrifies their small town. Except for the street vendor played by Otelo (for obvious reasons of its time, the race thing), the other two are only going in the brave mode to impress the same girl they're in love with. So, their mission is to infiltrate the outlaws and discover their scheme for robbing the town...but what almost nobody knows is that a lone masked vigilante is protecting them and everyone else from causing trouble. More? The girl is in love with the mystery man.

Here's a comedy that can still bring laughter and humor after more than 50 years of its release, and all of those comedic elements come from simplicity, fast jokes and fine adventure sequences (the one they're in drag dancing and pretending to be the "gifts" for the thieves is an example) and the film never gets to the rudeness, the vulgarity of today's comedies, specially in Brazil. I'm not saying this film is for nostalgic film lovers just because it's an old-fashioned comedy, it sure has its age and dated scheme but even for today's high demands you can get a kick out of it being a fan of the three comedians or not. It doesn't need much for a film like to this to create humored situations, lots of confusion and brings laughter to audiences. It runs out of gas for a while but never leave you in apathy. Thumbs way up for this. 7/10

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