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Grande! Que! Loco! Et-cetera! Okay, this is not intelligent, this is not artistic, this is a bottom-of-the-barrel trashy splatterfest that is cheap, fast, and completely under control, and you know something? It sure makes for one entertaining and spectacularly bloody nine sweet minutes! The acting is not up to much in this, particularly from the child actors, but a short like this is really nothing at all to do with fine acting, I just like the crazy energy and style of it. It reminds me of those gruesome 1970's films that were banned in many countries. I love the way this tiny short is so much more gorier than most of the horror movies that are coming out these days. He's a good father really, all he's doing is standing up for his nerdy little son that he loves very much..he just goes about it the wrong way - dead wrong! It's so hilarious when his son tells him what happened and he bursts out of the cabin and roars his righteous indignation at the heavens, for this most gravest of injustices will surely not stand!!! I don't know what kind of bizarre quasi-reality is supposed to exist in this mental cautionary tale of one Mexican wrestler father's revenge, but I assume the father must have been completely insane and the son a little backward for all the bad stuff to go down the way it does. This is madness, and it's so sick! It's a freaking grown man butchering a gang of punk kids over practically nothing! But it's ~so~ much fun and hilariously brilliant! I love how crummy and squishy the makeup effects look when he squashes that one kid's head! Even though it's all done in a completely comical tongue-in-cheek way, I still wouldn't say that this is one for the faint of heart. Papa Wrestling is so tough, he gets the job done without even getting one solitary speck of blood on his pink leotard thingy. And the crazy headhunter rock music that play over the closing credits is also totally hysterical and epic! Moral of the story:Kill all bullies!!! Hm, not a bad one, I reckon... But still uh, don't kill all bullies, it just ain't cool. Thanks for making us laugh so much, later!

In the midst of the current concern about kids bullying other kids (highlighted by the 12-year-old in Florida who committed suicide after being "cyber"-bullied) we have this Portuguese short inviting us not only not to take it too seriously but to channel it into the ultimate cranked up revenge fantasy. In this case a dorky kid has his lunch stolen by punks who stuff him into a toilet to boot; he goes home to complain to his dad, who's pumping iron wearing a full pro wrestling costume including "luchador" mask. Papa emits an outraged growl---this is the only sound he makes in the short, he has no lines as such---and off he goes to retrieve his son's lunch box, and then some, and then some more. Now, we're used to cartoonishly stylized violence in the movies, most recently and notably from Mr. Rodriguez in "Machete" and "Machete Kills," but here it's stripped down to the bare bones (and blood, and internal organs) and shoved at us with warp speed and gleeful mania; we barely have time to react to the demise of one punk before the next one is underway. Remember the inventive use of intestines that Mr. Rodriguez employed in the above two flicks? Well, here Fernando Alle outdoes that---I won't say how, you really should see for yourself. When Papa is done with the carnage---undisturbed by the arrival of policemen or some such---he returns home with the lunch box (adorned with a pair of eyeballs) and goes right back to pumping iron. A nice little anarchic blast, unmarred by some lame ending like turning out to be the nerd's imagination or having cops show up at the wrestler's house. Of course the topic of bullying still waits to be grappled with afterwards. One of the many reasons I'm glad I never had kids: I would have had no clue what to do or say if one of mine had turned out to be either a bully or a victim of same. "Well, remember, life's a bitch, then you die..."