The Kids Are Alright (2021 film)
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| Spanish | ¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias |
| Directed by | Santiago Segura |
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| Based on | Attention au départ! |
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| Music by | Roque Baños |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures España |
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| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
The Kids Are Alright (Spanish: ¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias) is a 2021 Spanish comedy film directed by Santiago Segura which stars Segura himself and Leo Harlem. It is a remake of the French film Attention au départ!.
Plot
[edit]Ricardo is charged with accompanying his son, along a group of kids, to a camp in Asturias. Felipe, the grand father of one of the latter, also goes alongside him. However, both end up missing the train, leaving the kids in their own way.
Cast
[edit]- Santiago Segura as Ricardo.[1]
- Leo Harlem as Felipe.[1]
- Diego Arroba "El Cejas" as Unai.[2]
- David Guapo.[3]
- Alan Miranda.[3]
- Eneko Oller.[3]
- Luna Fulgencio.[3]
- Javier García.[3]
- Sirena Segura.[3]
- Verónica López.[3]
- Joaquín Reyes as Ramón Rosado.[4]
- Florentino Fernández as Lucas Ferrero.[4]
- Paz Vega[5]
- Cristina Pedroche[5]
- Eva Isanta[5]
- Sara Sálamo[5]
- Wilbur[5]
- Itziar Castro[5]
- Eduardo Antuña[5]
- Marta González de Vega[5]
Production
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Written by the director Santiago Segura alongside Marta González de Vega,[7] the film is a remake of the 2021 French film Attention au départ!, which actually hit the French theatres later than the Spanish release.[8] The Kids are Alright was produced by Bowfinger International Pictures and Atresmedia Cine in collaboration with Buendía Estudios, Todos Al Tren La Película A.I.E. and Glow, with participation of Atresmedia and Movistar+.[7]
Shooting took place in Asturias (including Illas, Avilés and Puente de los Fierros), but footage was also shot in locations of the province of Toledo (Illescas) and the Madrid region.[9][10]
The film's original song, Tu tren, was performed by Carlos Jean and Bebe.[11]
Release
[edit]Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures España,[7] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 8 July 2021.[12] It became the highest-grossing Spanish film of 2021.[12]
Reception
[edit]Rubén Romero Santos of Cinemanía gave the film 2 out of 5 stars.[13] Lacking in creativity and displaying characters' indefinition, he found the kids' subplot to be a drag, to the point of "turning the viewer into a little Herod".[13] He also found worrying the turn of the filmmaking career of Santiago Segura, having become an adaptator of inane family comedy films.[13]
Fausto Fernández of Fotogramas gave it 4 out of 5 stars, praising the situations which the Leo Harlem's character set the rest of characters in.[3] He considered both of the two film subplots to work fine: that of the kids in the train, and particularly the complementary one (a sort of road movie).[3]
Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas gave the film 45 out of 100 points, considering it to be a clone of previous Segura's proposals, praising the character performed by David Guapo, while decrying the cringeful jokes related to inclusive language and machismo, and overall the stale tone of the film.[14]
Josu Eguren of El Correo gave the film 1 out of 3 stars, considering it fell short in terms of comedy. He pointed out at the film separating the gags dedicated to a child audience and those dedicated to an adult audience, with the "weak group of brats" on one side and the part led by Segura, Harlem and Guapo on the other side.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Estrada, Javier (8 July 2021). "¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias, una comedia de Santiago Segura lista para triunfar". Metropoli. El Mundo.
- ^ Úbeda-Portugués, Alberto (6 July 2021). "'A todo tren. Destino Asturias'". Aisge.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Fernández, Fausto (8 July 2021). "Crítica '¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias'". Fotogramas.
- ^ a b Agudo, Jesús (25 June 2021). "Florentino Fernández y Joaquín Reyes son los revisores de '¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias' en estos avances exclusivos". ecartelera.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Santiago Segura y 'El Cejas' presentan '¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias' en Paterna". Valencia Plaza. 30 June 2021.
- ^ Río, Cristina del (4 March 2021). "El rodaje de Santiago Segura en Avilés, "como una yincana"". El Comercio.
- ^ a b c "'¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias' – estreno en cines 8 de julio". Audiovisual451. 5 July 2021.
- ^ a b Eguren, Josu (11 July 2021). "Crítica de '¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias' (2021): El vagón familiar". El Correo.
- ^ "Teaser de '¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias', nueva comedia de Santiago Segura". Audiovisual451. 22 March 2021.
- ^ Rivera, Alfonso (24 March 2021). "Santiago Segura concluye el rodaje de ¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias". Cineuropa.
- ^ "Carlos Jean y Bebe nos llevan hasta Asturias en el vídeo de la canción de 'A todo tren'", Los 40, 2 July 2021
- ^ a b ""¡A todo tren!", de Santiago Segura, es ya el filme español más visto del año". EFE. 6 August 2021.
- ^ a b c Romero Santos, Rubén (8 July 2021). "A todo tren. Destino Asturias". Cinemanía. 20minutos.es.
- ^ Hernández Luján, Raquel (7 July 2021). "Crítica de ¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias, la nueva comedia familiar de Santiago Segura". HobbyConsolas.
External links
[edit]- The Kids Are Alright at ICAA's Catálogo de Cinespañol
- 2021 films
- Spanish remakes of French films
- 2021 comedy films
- 2020s Spanish-language films
- Films set on trains
- Films set in Asturias
- Films shot in Asturias
- 2020s comedy road movies
- Films directed by Santiago Segura
- Films scored by Roque Baños
- Spanish comedy road movies
- Films shot in the province of Toledo
- Films shot in the Community of Madrid
- Warner Bros. films
- Atresmedia Cine films
- Bowfinger International Pictures films
- 2020s Spanish films
- Spanish-language comedy films