Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure

La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón
Directed by	Javier Fesser
Produced by	Luis Manso Marina Ortiz
Written by	Javier Fesser Guillermo Fesser
Starring	es (as Mortadelo) es (as Filemón)
Edited by	Javier Fesser
Release dates	2003
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (Spanish: La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón) is a 2003 Spanish-language film based on the popular Spanish comic book series Mortadelo y Filemón by Francisco Ibáñez Talavera. It also included characters from 13, Rue del Percebe, another comic by the same creator. The film was directed by Javier Fesser and stars es and es.

Plot

The adventure begins when a spy breaks into Professor Bacterio's lab and steals some of his inventions from the T.I.A. headquarters (Técnicos de Investigación Aeroterráquea). Mortadelo and Filemón who work for the T.I.A. are put on the case, but Fredy, another agent, decides to beat them to it. One of the inventions is a weather control machine which the spy decides to sell to the President of Tirania, a small Eastern European dictatorship. There are numerous clashes between the spy, Fredy, and Mortadelo and Filemón (who Fredy seems to want to kill). Our heroes end up in prison after accidentally beating up the local cop once too often. They escape, Filemon's mother gets kidnapped by Fredy and taken to Tirania. The spy is killed in Fredy's place as Fredy ingratiates himself with the President, while having Filemón's mother tortured. The heroes arrive and there is a big battle where Filemón is apparently killed. Then Mortadelo receives a mortal wound but is saved by the Holy Grail while Fredy gets his just deserts. Mortadelo and Filemón return home, their mission successfully accomplished.

Cast

• es as Mortadelo
• es as Filemón
• Dominique Pinon as Fredy
• es as The President
• es as Superintendent Vincente (their boss at T.I.A.)
• es as Professor Bacterio
• es as Ofelia (Vincente's secretary)
• Gustamante as a mosquito (CGI insect)
• María Isbert as Filemón's mother
• Emilio Gavira as Rompetechos
• es as President's servant
• es as The spy who started it all off
• Paco Hidalgo as President's torturer
• es as Mickey El Gigante
• es as Security guard at T.I.A.
• Joan Gadea as a crooked shopkeeper.
• Juan Peiró as someone who keeps getting run over
• Andrés Gasch as Matraca, a very large man who has it in for Filemon
• Manuel Pizarro as a thief
• Coyito Fernández as a cop
• Emiliana Olmedo as Queen Elizabeth II
• The people of Gijon (crowd scene at palace, which was the University)
• The people of Valencia where much of it was filmed including the final parade and also Madrid.

Second Film

There is a second film about the comic duo : Mort & Phil. Mission: Save Earth.

External links

• Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure at IMDb
• Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure at Rotten Tomatoes