L'allenatore nel pallone 2

Jan 11 2008 N/A 1h 48m
Comedy, Sport

The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.

Plot

Sequel of the much better 80's movie "L'allenatore nel pallone". It should worth a 4 (for technical and stylistic reasons), but deserves a +1 bonus for the courage of trying to revive the old - the real one - Italian comedy. Banfi acted too many times as "Nonno Libero" to be able to act again as "Oronzo Canà". Tired and with no energy. Too many moments look like commercial spots, they neither try to disguise it. Too many unuseful out-of-plot scenes just to show some more soccer player (but maybe they are what average spectators really want to view). The supporting cast looks almost like a damage. Some laughs here and there. Elsewhere, much disappointment.

Written by

Sergio Martino, Luciano Martino, Luca Biglione

Directed by

Sergio Martino

Cast

Lino Banfi, Anna Falchi, Giorgio Alfieri

Crew

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Production Countries

Italy

Production Companies

Sky, Medusa Film, Rodeo Drive, VIP Media, Dania Film

Languages

Italiano

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
882
Average Rating
3.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA