When Caco finally gives in and decides to ask his girlfriend Júlia to marry him, he finds her having sex with her boss in the kitchen of the restaurant she works at. Facundo Flores, her boss, is a famous Argentinian chef who owns a prizewinning international restaurant chain and is the host of a highly popular cooking TV show. In view of this catastrophe, Caco is taken by force by his great friend Vadão to a deranged car trip from São Paulo to Buenos Aires, looking for vengeance: having sex with as many Argentinian women as possible, in order to save the honor of all those Brazilian men who have once been cheated on with an Argentinian guy.
However, the nearest Vadão gets to his aim is taking to bed a Paraguayan woman whom he later labels as a "fake Argentinian". Anyway, they didn't have sex because he couldn't get his thing up: he's a viagra addict and the Argentinian police had confiscated his blue pills at a traffic stop.
Meanwhile, all along the trip Caco spends his time in a depressed mood, checking his ex-girlfriend's profile on facebook each five minutes, until he gets blocked by her. Unlike Vadão, he is actually not looking for vengeance, nor is he mad at Júlia: in his view, he is the only one to blame, for he wasn't able to satisfy his girlfriend. So when he finds out through facebook that Júlia moved to Buenos Aires to live with her Argentinian lover, he accepts the idea of going with his friend until the end of the trip, but without telling him his true intention: talking to Júlia in an effort to understand why she left him for Facundo and maybe trying to regain her love.
Felipe Rocha is quite convincing as he plays Caco, a mature man with a stable personality who's just been hit by life and is still trying to cope. Daniel Furlan is also remarkable as Vadão, a 30-year-old playboy who suffers from late adolescence. Aylin Prandi and Ana Pauls also do remarkable contributions.
The rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, which has most of its roots on football, is explored in a fun way, although making unrestrained use of some worn-out clichés like the old dispute about who is the best football player in history (whether Maradona or Pelé). Bilingual dialogues between Brazilians and Argentinians are the feedstock for some good laughs, with the creative use of some embarrassing linguistic situations that come up as they try to communicate with each other. Cultural differences and resemblances between both countries are also used in an intelligent and fun way.
The general mood is that of a lightly dramatic comedy with lots of action and a smart humor that's capable of entertaining different kinds of audiences.
However, the nearest Vadão gets to his aim is taking to bed a Paraguayan woman whom he later labels as a "fake Argentinian". Anyway, they didn't have sex because he couldn't get his thing up: he's a viagra addict and the Argentinian police had confiscated his blue pills at a traffic stop.
Meanwhile, all along the trip Caco spends his time in a depressed mood, checking his ex-girlfriend's profile on facebook each five minutes, until he gets blocked by her. Unlike Vadão, he is actually not looking for vengeance, nor is he mad at Júlia: in his view, he is the only one to blame, for he wasn't able to satisfy his girlfriend. So when he finds out through facebook that Júlia moved to Buenos Aires to live with her Argentinian lover, he accepts the idea of going with his friend until the end of the trip, but without telling him his true intention: talking to Júlia in an effort to understand why she left him for Facundo and maybe trying to regain her love.
Felipe Rocha is quite convincing as he plays Caco, a mature man with a stable personality who's just been hit by life and is still trying to cope. Daniel Furlan is also remarkable as Vadão, a 30-year-old playboy who suffers from late adolescence. Aylin Prandi and Ana Pauls also do remarkable contributions.
The rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, which has most of its roots on football, is explored in a fun way, although making unrestrained use of some worn-out clichés like the old dispute about who is the best football player in history (whether Maradona or Pelé). Bilingual dialogues between Brazilians and Argentinians are the feedstock for some good laughs, with the creative use of some embarrassing linguistic situations that come up as they try to communicate with each other. Cultural differences and resemblances between both countries are also used in an intelligent and fun way.
The general mood is that of a lightly dramatic comedy with lots of action and a smart humor that's capable of entertaining different kinds of audiences.
