Massimo Boldi Movies
- 2005
Directed by Neri Parenti, Christmas in Miami stars Massimo Boldi as Ranuccio and Christian De Sica as Giorgio, friends whose wives have left them just before the titular holiday. The two head for sunny Miami in order to get away from their problems, and soon are involved in a number of sexual escapades. Giorgio must contend with the provocations of his daughter's underage friend, while Ranuccio embarrasses his son (Francesco Mandelli) who is himself attempting to score with the local ladies. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Massimo Boldi, Christian de Sica, (more)
- 2002
Italian filmmaker Neri Parenti directs the gross-out Christmas comedy Natale Sul Nilo, which is one in a series of madcap holiday movies. Captain Enrico Ombroni (Massimo Boldi) doesn't want his teenage daughter Lorella (Lucrezia Piaggio) to be a TV showgirl on the popular program They'll Be Famous, so he takes her on a vacation cruise to the Nile. Also on board is the captain's lieutenant Saltalaquaglia (Biagio Izzo) and attorney Fabio Ciulla (Christian De Sico). While in Cairo, Fabio is seduced by his son's fianceé (Nuria De La Furente), much to the dismay of his wife, Gianna (Mabel Lozano). Fabio and Ombroni get stranded in the desert and are subsequently rescued by sleazy Oscar (Enzo Salvi) and his entourage of TV showgirls. Natale Sul Nilo was a success at the Italian box office. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christian de Sica, Massimo Boldi, (more)
- 2000
In the third installment of the popular Vacanze di Natale series, comedians Christian De Sica and Massimo Boldi yuck it up with Australian model Megan Gale in the ski town of Cortina D'Ampezzo. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christian de Sica, Massimo Boldi, (more)
- 1999
Popular Italian comedian Neri Parenti directs this sketch-based movie about Italy's famously obsessive soccer fans. In one segment, a doctor forbids his son to marry the daughter of a pilot because he supports a rival team. In another, a Milanese cabby installs a satellite dish in his taxi only to have it co-opted by pushy Roman fans. In yet another scene, a Neapolitan crook breaks into a house only to realize that it's the home of his favorite soccer star. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Massimo Boldi, Christian de Sica, (more)
- 1999
This Italian comedy takes an affectionate look at a motley group of free-lance photographers desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity, with a host of Italian TV personalities appearing as themselves. "The Potato" (Roberto Brunetti) is a would-be paparazzo who lives with his uncle (Christian De Sica) and two other aspiring cameramen, "King" (Diego Abatantuono) and "Ciro 3000" (Nino D'Angelo). They join forces with the remarkably inept "Mr. Bean" (Massimo Boldi, and no relation to Rowan Atkinson's better-known character of the same name) in hopes of getting the kind of pictures that will make their reputation. The stalked celebrities in Paparazzi include Brigitte Nielsen, who with characteristic aggressiveness threatens one of the shutterbugs with a large pair of scissors. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christian de Sica, Massimo Boldi, (more)
- 1996
This Italian comic fantasy about time travel begins with Ascanio (Christian de Sica), an Italian nobleman, and Walter (Massimo Boldi) a film executive, also Italian, on a deluxe tour of Universal Studios. They sit down side-by-side and are hooked into a virtual reality machine by its inventor, Professor Mortimer (Dean Jones). When something goes wrong, they find themselves hopping around in time, again and again narrowly escaping death. Their first travel takes them to prehistoric times. Then they find themselves in Renaissance Florence under the watchful eye of Lorenzo de Medici, who is highly amused by Ascanio's soccer moves. Narrowly escaping the Inquisition, they jump centuries in time to Venice in the time of Casanova, where their efforts at a romantic liaison with some of Casanova's women are thwarted. In one of the film's highlights, Ascanio jumps into his own past, and attempts to change his personal future. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1996
Franco Melis is utterly humiliated at being reduced to performing stand-up comedy before young unappreciative audiences who do not realize that he was once a great and highly respected star, and, desperate for a chance to reclaim his lost fame, he jumps at the opportunity to appear in a low-budget independent art film. It is being specially made for exhibition at the Venice Film festival. This Italian comedy chronicles the struggle of Melis, one that grows even more difficult in the face of a press that is more interested in the juicy details of his personal life than in his new movie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1996
In this lively Italian bedroom farce, the fourth entry in the "Christmas Vacation" series, a compulsive gambler wings off to Aspen to search for his American wife and teen-age daughter. The wife left because she found out that her hubby had engaged in kinky sex with the wife of wicked Remo, the gambler to whom the husband was deeply indebted. The daughter is delighted to go to the famed ski resort, for she is hoping to meet and possibly seduce her idol Luke Perry. The story, filmed on location in Colorado, is fraught with sexual situations and male and female nudity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1995
Some things never change as this Italian comedy which spoofs government corruption, sports, night clubs, and the Mafia, amply proves. It is set in Rome, circa 71 B.C. and features comic actor Leslie Nielsen as a character similar to those in his Naked Gun series. Just as magistrate Antonio Servilio is arriving in Rome filled with ambition. Whilst travelling via the Appian Way, his chariot is run into by the chariot of Cesare Atticus, a dishonest senator with a love of women. So begins the grudge between the two who with every meeting find reasons to despise each other further. Judge Servilio places Atticus under observation after he receives evidence and information from Atticus's former mistress of his dishonest dealings. To discredit the magistrate, Atticus enlists the help of right-winger Cinico who sets the judge up with a buxom beauty who involves him in an orgy. The publicly humiliated Servilio is banished to Sicily where he encounters the early Mafia. Eventually Servilio and Atticus join forces to expose Cinico, the real villain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1991
This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc. The movie features a host of popular stars (including Christian De Sica, Ornella Muti and Alberto Sordi) and was wildly successful at the box office in its native Italy. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Massimo Boldi, Christian de Sica, (more)
- 1987
This comedy connects three unrelated stories of gamblers as they seek their fortunes in the casinos of Monte Carlo. When Furio (Christian De Sica) wins big but has his money stolen, he is forced to spend the night with an unappealing millionairess. Gino (Massimo Boldi) and his brother are fleeced by the fortune-hunting female Silvia (Florence Guerin). Oscar (Ezio Greggio) is a predatory gambler who find himself devoured by a French card shark. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christian de Sica, Massimo Boldi, (more)
- 1987
The bumbling thieves Egisto (Massimo Boldi) and Dalmazio (Paolo Villaggio), from the 1986 Italian hit comedy Scuola di Ladri, are fresh out of prison (and an insane asylum) in Part II, and they soon find one another and team up with their infinitely more capable uncle (Enrico Mario Salerno) and the supposed daughter of their deceased partner, Susanna -- a sly wench if ever there was one. Together, they attempt and even succeed at a series of daring robberies, thanks more to their persistence than to any skill on their part. As a foursome, much of the comedy in the story centers on their unavailing attempts to outwit and swindle one another. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paolo Villaggio, Massimo Boldi, (more)
- 1986
Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store comedy is a series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments. In one skit, Elena (Laura Antonelli) and her husband the personnel director, are certain that an inept salesman in the bathroom fixtures department is actually the son of the store's owner. They launch into a campaign to woo him over without bothering to check up on his credentials. In another skit, the famous Italian actress Ornella Muti, playing herself, walks into one of the men's departments and sends a salesclerk into near heart failure. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alessandro Haber, Laura Antonelli, (more)
- 1986
This comedy-drama explores the sexual misadventures of a variety of suburban dwellers, including a few straying husbands and wives, and some non-husbands and non-wives too. After Sandro (Christian De Sica) and Lorenzo (Massimo Boldi) pack their wives and kids off for a brief vacation, the two men decide to look for some close encounters of the sexual kind. Sandro goes on several dates while Lorenzo takes up with his less-than-stable secretary, which proves to be a big mistake. Meanwhile, Gianluca (Jerry Cala) is an ambitious advertising executive who has little knack for communicating with the woman he loves. Finally, a car salesman (Enzo Greggio) chases anyone in skirts, full throttle, but gets a surprise in a few instances. None of these stories tends to overlap with the others. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jerry Calà, Christian de Sica, (more)
- 1986
Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude. The basest and most tried-and-true sight gags are used to illustrate the folly of the uncle's idea - people fall out of windows, a bazooka is fired backwards, and everything else basically misfires. Some animation is intercut here and there as an indication of the level at which the director (Neri Parenti) was aiming. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paolo Villaggio, Massimo Boldi, (more)
- 1985
Carrying a patchwork storyline on the strength of their top characterizations, popular Italian comics Carlo Verdone (also the director) and Enrico Montesano portray Marino and Glauco, respectively, two disparate men who find themselves reluctantly forced into joining the carabinieri, Italy's military police, when all other job prospects have failed. After miraculously passing the entrance exam, the new recruits are joined in an assignment to guard a corrupt business magnate while he is in the hospital -- an assignment which they promptly botch as the man escapes, leaving them to the task of finding him and bringing him back before anyone notices he is gone. Complicating the relationship between the two men is a woman, Rita, Marino's cousin and the object of both their desires -- a state of affairs that does not promote anything but competition between the two. A few serious situations are mixed in with the misadventures to balance the portrayal of the respected carabinieri corps, but Verdone and Montesano are still the main focus of attention.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, (more)
- 1982
This take-off on the soccer mania that is a part of Italian life centers on the comic presence of its star Diego Abatantuono who plays three different lead roles in the three "acts" that make up the film. In the first story, Donato (Abatantuono) is an out-of-work southerner trying to find his way in the north when he gets into disagreements with a bunch of soccer fans that are against his own, native team. In the next skit, Franco Abatantuono deserts his family, his home, his wife -- everyone -- when he finds out he has won the soccer lottery (he guessed the winning team), and he goes to celebrate at the most expensive hotel he can find. His celebrations are cut short, however, when his friends show up with some unexpected news. In the last story, Abatantuono plays Tirzan, a truck driver who borrows a truck from a friend to be able to get to a big match in Belgium, and then his borrowed truck is stolen in Paris -- should he try to make the match anyway? With Abatantuono's natural ability to chew up northern Italian with a southern dialect, the comic characters take on additional comedic dimensions. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Diego Abatantuono, Stefania Sandrelli, (more)
- 1977
In this slapstick comedy, almost a vaudeville revue, the Italian side of World War II is affectionately re-created, while the cream of Himmler's German troops, the dreaded Stormtroopers, consistently make fools of themselves. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Massimo Boldi
