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14 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :- The end of a great adventure, 10 January 2006 Author: Bill-Fitzgerald-Bikk from France
Is it a masterpiece ? No. A classic movie ? No. Oscars ? We've seen worse....Terence Hill/Bud Spencer, Bud Spencer/Terence Hill, the magic duet offers a touching movie for their last common effort. This film is a beautiful summary of their previous works, you will find fights, farts, flaws.... all the elements which created their legend. But this time, the music, the wrinkles on their faces, their slow movements and their gray hair add a lot of poetry to their usual burlesque. The last minutes are very moving, the final fight is just beautifully nostalgic for longtime fans.Then, the movie ends, credits appear on the screen :Terence Hill Bud SpencerDamn, it was the last time, thank you for everything guys, that was good. Very good.
8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- TERENCE HILL AND BUD SPENCER ARE FINALLY BACK!, 8 April 2000 Author: Mark-371 from Nova Scotia, Canada
Terence and Bud, after 9 years, finally made another movie together! It was just what I expected! Fights, romantic sub plot, and beans. The plot is Travis and Moses mother wants them to come home for christmas, but theres a problem. Moses wont go back to his ma's house because years ago, she let all the horses he stole go free. I liked this movie! The best scene is where Moses is going to get hanged and when they pull the lever the gallow falls apart! It couldnt support Moses' weight! Not as good as a small few of thier movies like Im for the Hippopotamus and Watch out Were Mad but still its a good hill/spencer outing. Supposedly this is supposed to be the third "Trinity" movie, but due to legal hassles, it couldnt be done. Its been 6 years and I'm still waiting for Terence and Bud to make a new comedy! My rating is 7/10.
5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Sequel with Hill and Spencer again team up as the valiant and roguish brothers, 9 December 2005 Author: ma-cortes
The film deals about the famous brothers ,both bountyhunters(Terence Hill and Bud Spencer)who hate themselves.Their mother attempts the reunion for celebration the Christmas.The film is based on a famed poem ¨night before the Christmas¨title exhibited in many countries and is developed about an heart warming history .As always ,they will confront against enemies by means of continuous struggles without blood,neither gore nor brutal murders .The fights are with no violence and predominate the comedy and parody, the choreographic quarrels are lights and clean.The humor is continued ,laughters are based on physical differences and diverse personalities protagonists.Terence Hill plays a sympathetic and rogue gunslinger with beautiful eyes and fast weapon.Bud Spencer as a corpulent,bouncing and grumpy man but with good heart helping the children and poor and of course a weakness eating beans.Their personages have a certain resemblance with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy .Storyline is a little ridiculous but has its enjoyable moments here and there.Picture was realized twenty some years later of ¨Trinity¨and ¨Trinity is still my name¨that obtained much success ,however this version was a flop but Trinity and Bambino times had passed.Supposed to be the third part but due copyright problems it couldn't be and is converted in an unofficial sequel.The film provided a nostalgic and familiar reunion of the agreeable pair and is only for their fans.Atmospheric musical score is by the Italian musician Pino Donaggio.The motion picture is regularly directed by Terence Hill who also directed and interpreted Lucky Luke with similar approaching to this film.
6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :- Terrific, 12 May 1999 Author: termin8r from Sweden
I rented this movie last week. My son and I are true "Terrence and Bud"-fanatics, and I must say that this movie doesn't make anybody in that genre disappointed. Although the dialog and acting is as "bad" as it was 25 years ago, in the Trinity movies", it is still worth watching, just for the h#ll of it. Recomended for any Trinity-fans out there.
3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :- enjoyable rental for longtime fans, 17 September 2006 Author: jennbeez1 from United States
The story and the acting are up to the Trinity standard, but whose voice did they use for Bud Spencer? Far from the grainy growl supplied in Trinity, the big man sounds like a chipmunk in Troublemakers. Really distracting. If you are a fan of the 1972/1973 Trinity movies, you will enjoy this later release as a sort of bittersweet reunion of the two actors in a similar western. If you have no history with the originals, I highly recommend you pick up the Trinity movies first. The Troublemakers is very hard to find in the US but can usually be found on ebay (VHS). I only wish they had done My Name is Nobody with Bud Spencer instead of Henry Fonda-- that's how essential Bud Spencer is to the team.
3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :- Affectionate reunion for Bud and Terence; only for their fans., 19 January 2005 Author: gridoon
It's a pretty weird experience, watching this movie. An affectionate, warm-hearted reunion for Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, it is also a bittersweet farewell to an old era of movies. It will probably appeal only to fans of the duo, as they once again go through their familiar motions (Spencer's mutterings, Hill's smiles, bean-eating, fist-fighting, helping the poor, etc.), only this time there are some serious dramatic moments as well. On the other hand, considering their age, you can't help but wonder if perhaps this film should never have been made, if they should have retired more gracefully a few years earlier. But if you insist on seeing it, try to avoid the DVD version, as the image has been blown up way out of proportion to fill the entire screen - perhaps in keeping with the tradition of the awful full-screen versions of the "Trinity" films (to which this film is without a doubt an unofficial sequel - I wonder why they couldn't make it "official"). (**)
1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- noble intentions...but this should have never been filmed, 9 November 2008 Author: h-a-m from Italy
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I understand that this is a 'merely for the fans' movie...the tomb stone of the 'Trinity' series.However, the result is pretty embarrassing. First, while Hill aged rather well, Spencer looks significantly older than he actually was, much as if he was sick or something. Second, they don't know what kind of movie they want...is it a Trinity movie...a parody of a Trinity movie...a western-styled Piedone movie with lots of kids around...? Beans, belching and a (very moderate) amount of fist-fights do not automatically make a good Spencer/Hill movie. They push the envelope but I am not sure about what.Who knows... Maybe it's that the atmosphere of 1960-70s Trinity movies, or late 1970s-early 1980s Spencer/Hill is gone.I find the final scene in which they come to get them but loose their guns listening to children singing the corniest and lowest moment in all S&H movies, including Banana Joe & similar.Ruth Buzzi as their mother is ugly as puke...you can see she's wearing a wig and that jaw...that horrible jaw...Intentions behind this were noble, but I maintain it shouldn't have been filmed.
2 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Bud And Terence's Disappointing Last Ride, 17 August 2007 Author: Benjamin Gauss from Salzburg, Austria
I've been a huge fan of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill since my childhood, and I've seen every single movie these two have made together more than once. I like their Westerns especially, but the last movie the two appeared in together, "Botte Di Natale" aka. "Troublemakers" is unfortunately also by far their worst. Bud and Terence who were, no matter if in Westerns or their other comedies, always Bud and Terence, still somehow have their eternal love-hate relationship, but they have become older and the chemistry has somehow waned. Their typical fistfights (with each other as well as against others) are only occasional in this, the humor is not crude anymore, and somebody must have felt it was necessary for Bud Spencer's character to have a wife and a bunch of kids now. The characters Bud and Terence used to play in their old movies were usually those of drifting loners (even though Terence was always very successful with the ladies, of course), but somebody obviously felt it was necessary for their whole character to change in their last film.The movie is not entirely awful and It is always a pleasure to see Bud and Terence, but "Troublemakers" simply lacks the energy and the whole feeling of earlier Spencer/Hill movies. This being the last Spencer/Hill flick so far, I sure hope that the awesome twosome of comedic ass-kicking will eventually appear in one more movie together. Since Bud Spencer is already in his late seventies, however, this wish is unfortunately not very likely to come true. I'll always be a fan of Bud and Terence, and "Troublemakers" is watchable and probably should be seen by fans since it's their last movie, but I recommend to stick with their great earlier films. 4/10
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