Os Farofeiros

Os Farofeiros is a 2018 Brazilian comedy film directed by Roberto Santucci, in which four coworkers and their families take a holiday trip to a beach house that turns out to be dilapidated, far from the promised destination, and surrounded by crowded beaches and mishaps. It was released in Brazil on 8 March 2018, runs 103 minutes, and carries a 12-year age rating.¹ The film drew more than 2.5 million spectators in Brazilian cinemas and spawned a franchise with a sequel in 2024 and a third installment scheduled for November.^{2 • 3}

Cast and production

The ensemble pairs actors known from television comedy with the four family units around which the gags are organized. Maurício Manfrini plays Lima, a role close to his better-known television character Paulinho Gogó, built on malapropisms and absurdist logic; Cacau Protásio plays his wife Jussara; Danielle Winits plays Renata, Alexandre's wife; and Antônio Fragoso plays Alexandre. Nilton Bicudo plays Diguinho, Charles Paraventi plays Rocha, Aline Riscado plays Elen, and Elisa Pinheiro plays Vanete.^{1 • 6}

Roberto Santucci directed from a screenplay by Paulo Cursino and Odete Damico. Santucci had directed some of the highest-grossing Brazilian comedies of the preceding years, including De Pernas pro Ar (parts 1 and 2) and Até que a Sorte nos Separe (parts 1, 2, and 3).⁷ Distribution was handled by Downtown Filmes and Paris Filmes, with coproduction by Camisa Listrada, Telecine, Fox, Panorama Filmes, and Globo Filmes.¹

Reception and box office

The film was a commercial success and a critical failure by most published reviews. It attracted more than 2.5 million spectators according to IMDb, while Folha de S.Paulo put the figure at 2.6 million.^{2 • 8} Cinema com Buteco reports R$ 36.8 million grossed against a R$ 6 million budget, making it the 17th most-watched film in Brazil in 2018.⁵

Critical response. AdoroCinema's average of press reviews was 2.4 out of 5, drawn from outlets including Cinepop, Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, and Veja; its own review scored the film 2.5, calling it a sitcom-style comedy whose summer mishaps play as disconnected sketches around a more serious central conflict.^{9 • 6} Reviewers split along familiar lines for Brazilian popular comedy. Papo de Cinema's Robledo Milani wrote that the film emulates situations from the classic chanchadas and puts its many clichés to work for immediate laughs, while the Observatório do Cinema critic argued that a script reduced to clichés and stereotypes showed no intention of following the better-scripted Globo Filmes comedies of the period.⁹ Veja's critic noted the film's histrionic tone and what he called its shabby jokes, from rivalry among the women to the men's sexism.⁹

Audience measures ran higher. IMDb users gave 6.0/10 from about 1,600 votes, and AdoroCinema users averaged 3.4/5 from 658 ratings.^{2 • 10} Rotten Tomatoes lists no critics' reviews and a Popcornmeter audience score of 75 percent from fewer than 50 ratings.¹¹ This gap between critics and paying public is a recurring pattern for Santucci's comedies, which Cinema com Buteco describes as proof that the two audiences evaluate different things.⁵

The farofeiro and the film's social humor

The title draws on a Brazilian colloquial term with a class dimension. In tourism studies, the farofeiro designates popular-class beach excursionists, distinguished from tourists by how they experience the beach, the low-standard transport they use, the products they consume, and the practice of bringing food from home to eat on the sand.¹² Researchers note that the label carries stereotypes of low purchasing power and disorderly behavior, and that municipal tourism policies have at times restricted excursionists' access to beaches in ways that exclude these groups.^{12 • 13}

The film plays on this cultural material. A UFPB communication studies dissertation places it among the globochanchadas, the Globo Filmes comedies that caricature the Brazilian middle class with casts of actors known from Rede Globo television, and names Os Farofeiros among the recent box-office leaders of that cycle.¹⁴ Folha's review at release read the film as a comedy about Brazil in economic crisis, a "moneychanchada" in which the well-off Alexandre spends the Réveillon holiday with poorer coworkers.⁷ A later Folha critique of the sequel argued that the 2018 film's characters embodied a particular image of the "simple, boorish man" that the critic connected to the political moment of its release.⁸

References

1. Os Farofeiros, Gshow / Globo Filmes
2. Os Farofeiros (2018), IMDb
3. Os Farofeiros 3 ganha trailer e cartaz, Gshow
4. Os Farofeiros, Apple TV
5. Sessão da Tarde exibe Os Farofeiros, Cinema com Buteco
6. Feriadão frustrado, crítica de Os Farofeiros, AdoroCinema
7. Com ares de moneychanchada, filme faz piada com Brasil em crise econômica, Folha de S.Paulo
8. Os Farofeiros 2 mostra que império do homem bronco segue em vigor, Folha de S.Paulo
9. Críticas da imprensa do filme Os Farofeiros, AdoroCinema
10. Críticas dos espectadores de Os Farofeiros, AdoroCinema
11. Os Farofeiros, Rotten Tomatoes
12. Excursões populares e turísticas: um enfoque sobre quase grupos e práticas de lazer na praia, Ponto Urbe (USP)
13. Discourse ambiental, política de turismo e exclusão social, dissertação UFPB
14. Identidade e estética do banal no filme Eles Voltam, dissertação UFPB

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