Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo
Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo (Spanish for Another Movie about Eggs and a Chick) is a Mexican animated adventure comedy film produced by a Mexican animation studio Huevocartoon Producciones, and a sequel to Una Película de Huevos.
| Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo | |
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| Directed by | Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste |
| Produced by | Paco Arriagada Cuadriello Carlos Zepeda Elisa Salinas Vance Owen |
| Written by | Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste |
| Starring | Bruno Bichir Angélica Vale Carlos Espejel Darío T. Pie Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste Humberto Vélez Patricio Castillo |
| Music by | Carlos Zepeda |
| Edited by | Ignacio Alaniz Joaquim Martí Marques |
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| Distributed by | Videocine |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | MX$113.9 million (US$8.6 million)[1] |
The film was released in Mexico on 20 March 2009, which was a major commercial success, grossing a total of $113.9 million pesos (US$6.1 million).[2]
Along with its predecessor, this film was released direct-to-video as a "2-Pack" in the United States.
Plot
The film begins in a ghost town inhabited by a stone amulet shaped like an egg who is a great sorcerer. One day, the egg-Wizard prepares to make a spell that has so long been waiting. Passing the list of ingredients, he learns that one is missing: a chicken heart.
In the "Granjas: El Pollon" Toto, a beautiful chick, learns to eat a worm. He also reflects on his former life as an egg. Soon after, he is kidnapped by buzzard eggs, leading to the desert.
The next morning, Willy, Bibi, Confi, Coco and other friends manage to get to the desert in a supply truck that has been stolen from its owner. In this ghost town, Toto meets face to face with the egg-Wizard, who begins to make his recipe as expected, and, on reaching the ingredient chicken heart, the chicken would have to be sacrificed first. But Toto escapes and goes into the vast desert, where he loses consciousness. The Egg-Wizard calls an army of scorpion eggs to bring back Toto.
In return, Toto's friends know the Roe Boat and manage to find Toto, who has recovered from his faint and then about to be attacked by the scorpion eggs. The gang manages to save Toto, but at one point, Willy is stung by a scorpion egg and later it is discovered that the shell is rotting. The boat Roe proposes that go with Old Egg Hawk, to which Bacon and Toto access immediately.
That night, the Egg-Wizard is informed of these events and forms a new army, which before were empty shells. Meanwhile, Toto and Bacon help dig out the scorpion eggs that have been frozen in the cold of the night. They consult with the Old Hawk Egg, but they themselves are the answer: to use medicinal plants to fix the shell of Willy.
At dawn, it is reported that the egg-Wizard needs the heart before sunset, otherwise it will be forced to appear in person. All eggs choose to fight. In the sunset, the battle starts with a large army of egg-Zombies-which were defeated by the scorpion eggs in thanks of Toto and Tocino freeing them from ice-and then bred with Egg-Wizard-mounted two-brand toy cars " Matchbox " and an iguana. But all are defeated. Then Coco and Bacon derail the toy cars, sending the buzzard eggs to stay with the huevitas underground, making a reference to semi-abandoned women. Finally, it is revealed that the iguana was and is the mother of Iguano.
The eggs come to the climax where the egg-Witch fight face to face with Toto, revealing that the chicken heart wants to "feel and love". He loses his magic and is defeated and is sent to the sky in the last minute by Willy, who has been cured of his wound and it is "lighter" than before from the plants in his shell. The story ends with Toto, returning to his farm and his mother and having a big party with all his friends.
Cast
- Bruno Bichir as Toto, a serious but caring chick.
- Carlos Espejel as Willy, a chicken egg and an ex-sergeant, he now is a medic egg. He is a good friend of Toto and Tocino and Bibi's boyfriend.
- Angélica Vale as Bibi, a spoiled chicken egg which works on a juggling act in a fair with her brothers. She is Willy's girlfriend.
- Darío T. Pie as Huevo Brujo, an eccentric stone wizard egg. He wants Toto's heart to make spell which will make him feel. His minions are the buzzard eggs, Manotas and Patotas, an iguana (formerly), and zombie-eggs. The scorpion eggs aren't his minions, more than mercenaries that he hired.
- Lucia Marshal as La Hueva-Lancha, an ugly and kind yard egg who helps Willy and his friends to find Toto. She lives in an abandoned supermarket with other 7 yard eggs.
- Patricio Castillo is El Viejo Huevo de Halcón, a wise hawk egg who lives in top of a mountain, he hasn't hatched (despite being 75 years old) by using some type of medicinal plants.
- Humberto Velez as Huevay II, a chocolate egg and Confi's best friend. His speech and behavior probably states he is Cuban. He melts several times in the movie.
- Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste as Coco, a theater-loving and dramatic crocodile egg. He is the leader of the reptile eggs. / Iguano, a dim-witted but very strong iguana egg, he is Coco's second-in command. / Manotas, a stupid ostrich egg who cares a lot for his brother Patotas. He is shown to be a little more smart than Patotas, and has black eyes instead of blue to tell him apart from Patotas. / Cuache, an easygoing opossum.
- Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste as Confi, the most prominent of all of the confetti eggs (who are also named Confi) he is a parody of hippies and drug users, and most confetti eggs follow his stupid prayers/ Patotas, a stupid ostrich egg who cares a lot for Manotas. He has blue eyes and his tongue sticking out. / Torti, a strong but slow tortoise egg. / Huevo de Escorpión, one of the scorpion eggs and the one who stung Willy.
- Fernando Meza as Tlacua, a serious opossum / Lagartijo, an emotionally unstable lizard egg. / Huevo de Escorpión Líder, the leader of the scorpion eggs. He sports a punk hairstyle.
- Armando Gonzalez as Apolononio, one of the buzzard eggs.
- Tocino, a mute and friendly strip of bacon. He only communicates by body signs and people usually use him as a weapon or a tool due his flexibility and greasiness.
Release
The film was released in Mexico on 20 March 2009. While the film, along with its predecessor, was released on DVD in the United States as a "2-Pack", neither film were released in any major format in the country due to their "racist" and "controversial" nature, failing to match the industry's humor code.[3]
Sequel
A third film, called Un gallo con muchos huevos (Spanish for A Rooster With Many Eggs') was released on 20 August 2015 in Mexico, and the United States on 4 September 2015.[4]
A fourth and fifth installments are currently in development and will be released in 2020 and 2022 respectively.[5][6]
References
- "Otra película de huevos y un pollo". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- "Mexico Box Office May 15–17, 2009 (MXN format; check "Gross-to-Date")". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- "La animación mexicana se pone a prueba en EE. UU. con un gallo y muchos huevos". Presna Libre. Presna Libre. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- "Mexico's Riva brothers bringing their 'Huevos' to U.S. in animated feature". Fox News Latino. 21st Century Fox. 15 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ""Huevitos en fuga", la nueva película de huevos". Publimetro Mexico. Metro International. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- Pérez, Javier (30 May 2019). "Los estrenos de Videocine para 2019 y 2020". Cine Premiere (in Spanish). g21 Comunicación. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
External links
- Official Site
- Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo on IMDb
- IMCINE profile (in Spanish)