This live-action adaptation of a venerable Spanish comic strip offers plenty of summer school shenanigans and bright, brisk fun – but nothing for the grownups
Zip and Zap, or Zipi y Zape, are two cheeky mop-topped Spanish comic-strip characters brought to life here in a live-action feature film. It sees the pair sent away to a summer boarding school run by the dictatorial, eye-patch-wearing Falconetti, who believes that children should be seen and not heard and that fun is an impediment to personal growth. Zip and Zap baulk at such thinking and soon they and their marble gang are causing all manner of mischief, while trying to uncover the deeper secrets of this educational establishment.
Beyond speculating about whether Falconetti’s authoritarianism might be a sly reference to Franco-era Spain (the strip’s creator, José Escobar Saliente, was imprisoned after the civil war for union activity), adults are unlikely to find...
Zip and Zap, or Zipi y Zape, are two cheeky mop-topped Spanish comic-strip characters brought to life here in a live-action feature film. It sees the pair sent away to a summer boarding school run by the dictatorial, eye-patch-wearing Falconetti, who believes that children should be seen and not heard and that fun is an impediment to personal growth. Zip and Zap baulk at such thinking and soon they and their marble gang are causing all manner of mischief, while trying to uncover the deeper secrets of this educational establishment.
Beyond speculating about whether Falconetti’s authoritarianism might be a sly reference to Franco-era Spain (the strip’s creator, José Escobar Saliente, was imprisoned after the civil war for union activity), adults are unlikely to find...
- 3/31/2017
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
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