Vulgar, juvenile, insulting, predictable, disgusting, racist, sexist, homophobic are the things that I Soliti Idioti are; what it’s not, is funny.
Obviously made for the lowest possible common denominator, I Soliti – il film (the usual idiots, the film version) was released on February 22 and I received my copy in the US a few days ago.
I’d been anxious to see it – this movie that is based on an Italian TV show did very well at the box office and was number one for a few weeks.
When the yucky old man Ruggero (played in heavy makeup to appear much older by Francesco Mandelli ) finds out that his educated and sensitive son (Fabrizio Biggio ) is about to marry for love (we never see the bride to be, but she’s evidently not very pretty) Ruggero sets forth to postpone the wedding and get his virgin son laid. And not just laid – LAID – he’s got a scheme, and a bet, and the goal is to get his son in bed with a beautiful lingerie model.
Mandelli and Biggio play other characters in vignettes scattered through the movie that involve others that are going to the wedding. One of them was ever-so-slightly amusing, with a guy that is trying to get his wedding gift to the ceremony and is thwarted again and again by the same disinterested bureaucrat (played by Biggio dressed up like a prissy middle-aged woman.)
To go any further with this recounting of I Soliti Idioti is rather pointless; it’s a stupid movie; can we just leave it at that? Take my word for it and save yourself the trouble – and thank me for watching this movie so that you didn’t have to.
I Love Italian Everything 