Alicia I love this movie so much

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Coventry Back in the early nineties (oh, what glorious times), my dad and the 9-year-old version of myself were tremendous fans of the action/comedy duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. We videotaped a lot of their films on TV and collected them, including this one. At first it was a minor disappointment that Bud Spencer wasn't the actor playing Mayor Peppone, but it nevertheless became a childhood favorite that I must have seen at least 15 to 20 times! Of course, I was young and didn't pay attention to many things. For example, I was totally unaware that Hill's film was a reboot of a popular film series of the fifties (starring Fernandel) and the political undertones were also completely lost on me. Through the eyes of 9-year-old, this is simply a fun and exhilarating movie about a fit and atypical priest versus a mean and sleazy mayor! They argue, bare-knuckle fight and eventually assemble as many local kids as possible to settle their differences via a soccer game. The game turns into an unforgettable climax, with the church boys in blue and the town hall kids in red, and ending in a giant mass-fight in the pouring rain. Apart from the soccer game, there are numerous sequences that I still know by heart, even though it must have been 25 years since I last saw it. Terence Hill simply was the coolest priest ever! He drove around town on a dirt bike, he had the coolest dog and he talks to God via and old and color-faded Jesus Christ statue. Note: for once the Dutch title is reasonably clever, as it contains wordplay and can be translated in two equally relevant ways, namely "Don Camillo hits hard" or "Don Camillo goes bonkers".

claudioarias In the first place, I clarify that this is a automatic translation of my original language review, in Spanish, so that I request excuses by any spelling mistake. I believe that although it is a good adaptation of "Don Camillo, little world", does not happen of one movie to spend the short while. I believe that make a new version, and suggest to Roberto Begnini for the role of Don Camillo, and somebody like Danny De Vitto or Joe Pesci on the Peppone's role. Terence Hill, is well in the role in that version of film, but I don't believe that is sufficient like equaling the original movie of 1952. Some of the jokes they are not understood for the American audience that it does not know in general almost hysterical humor of the Italian cinema.

gridoon Terence Hill does a surprisingly adept job of directing this film (according to IMDB, it was his first effort behind the camera), but there isn't much of a script to support him; most of the laughs are supposed to come from seeing a priest do such "outrageous" things as cheating at cards, roller-skating in his church and organizing amateur soccer games. The spirit of the film is just too gentle for a successful satire. At 120 minutes, it's also overlong - especially since the dramatic incidents don't build out of each other. It does have a beautiful score by Pino Donaggio. (**1/2)

Wizard-8 This is quite an atypical vehicle for Hill. Though I've never read any of the original stories, apparently they are short stories. This may explain why there is no central plot here, and there being a mass collection of vignettes instead. It may also explain why the tone of the movie is so wildly inconsistant - sometimes it's melancholy, sometimes goofy, sometimes dead serious, sometimes of a (and quite violent at times) slapstick nature. I guess it's supposed to be a comedy at its heart, but I didn't really find that much humorous about it, though there are one or two smiles here and there.