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Ma che colpa abbiamo noi (2003)
after many years at last a funny film from Carlo Verdone
This film is very funny. I couldn't stop laughing especially at the beginning with all this psychiatric madness. The characters are not very original and they correspond to the classical cliches of psychiatric patients, but it's for this that the film results so enjoying. Carlo Verdone, directs and acts wonderfully, you can laugh just by seeing the faces he makes. The conversations with his terrible father are the best. Go to see it if you want to have a good time.
Via Zanardi, 33 (2001)
Americans do it better
This is the example of how Italians try to imitate USA sit-comedies. The show is articulated like "Friends", the main characters are 6 students (3 guys and 3 girls) who live together. But "friends" is better. In "via Zanardi, 33" the problem is that the dialogues aren't so funny and the actors aren't so good. Actually most of them aren't neither professional actors. Some of them were chosen because of their popularity among the youngsters, like the former VJ of Mtv Italy Enrico Silverstrin and the lead singer of the Italian boy band Lunapop Cesare Cremonini who stars in some episodes. I'm Italian and I hate to say so, but Americans do better than us this kind of shows. I think that if you want to copy a thing, you should try also to improve it, this doesn't happen in "via Zanardi, 33". At least the creators should have removed that irritating laughing out of frame. It seems to suggest that what you are seeing is funny, that you too ought to laugh. I think I hope I'm intelligent enough to understand when something is comic or not.
Il fantasma di Sodoma (1988)
Comic
I thought Fulci was a master of Italian horror, or so I heard, therefore I was surprised when I discovered that this was one of his movies. The story lacks in originality. It's full of all the stereotypes of the genre: a haunted house, a group of teenagers, the hysteric girl, the tough guy who always keeps cool and the stupid one who inevitably troubles things up. All these ingredients are mixed without logic, especially at the end. The results are comic, not terrifying. I saw it with a group of friends and we couldn't stop laughing!