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Le Comiche 2 (Film)

A 1991 Italian comedy directed by Neri Parenti that is a sequel to 1990's Le Comiche that has the two silent films stars (Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto) and getting into more hijinks.

The movie also stars Roberto Della Casa, Paul MĂĽller, Giulio Donnini, Antonio Allocca, Romano Puppo, and Loredana Romito.

It was released on December 20, 1991 and was followed by Le Nuove Comiche.


Tropes for the film:

  • Accidental Murder: Most passengers (part from one) are killed by the protagonists accidentally pushing them in various ways off a plane mid-flight. Of course, since this movie runs on Toon Physics and Amusing Injuries, the passengers might still be alive - it's not made clear.
  • Amusing Injuries: The lawyer character suffers a series of physical traumas played for comedy:
    • Episode 1 - While the guy is bent over an injured biker to help him, he is hit on the head by the ambulance driven by the protagonists. While he is senseless on the ground, one of the protagonist nurses accidentally kicks him in the groin leaving him in excruciating pain. As he is mistaken for the biker in need of medical attention and charged on the ambulance, he complains but he is hit on the head with an oxygen tank. During the journey, he is tossed around on the stretcher, crashes into an animal center, and is chased and bitten by dogs. He is hit by the ambulance yet again and ends up being transported to the hospital while clinging to the front of the vehicle, also crashing the bar of the hospital entrance. Inside the hospital, the character is docile due to the beatings, probably he can't take anymore. Anyway he is stabbed in the buttocks with a set of syringes and screams in pain. After a patient mix-up, an anesthesia mask is placed over his face and, ignoring his muffled attempts to alert the medical staff after learning he is going to have a breast augmentation, they force him down and we hear a *thump* that is his head hitting the operating table. Off screen, he undergoes breast augmentation through insertion of silicone implants.
    • All these traumas are played for comedy, although they are horrible beatings for the character. He goes into a carousel of beatings without being able to escape, also they are really nasty and grotesque like the groin attack while he is unconscious. This is topped by the nip and tuck operation that gives him female breasts.
    • Episode 3 - While boarding on a plane, he is pushed/pulled a couple of times. Together with other passengers is on a plane that suddenly flips upside down, leaving them hanging precariously from their seats. Once accidentally stripped to underwear, he is pulled towards a wall that collapses and he falls from the plane into a hospital even breaking a window ceiling. A surgeon with large scissors approaches, implying he is going to have a sex reassignment. This happens off screen.
    • These new traumas are more absurd than the previous and maybe less nasty as the character can't escape anywhere and finally falls into position.
  • Ass Shove: This trope is used multiple times through the movie, generally putting something into a character's rectum.
  • Boob-Based Gag: This is recurring through the movie. The first occurrence is when the male lawyer is mixed up with a female patient, while receiving anesthesia and surgeon comments is going to give "her" a pair of nice boobs. The poor guy moans before falling asleep, while the joke here is that a man is going to accidentally receive breast implants. Later in the movie, this character is stripped to underwear, revealing the result of surgery. The comedy here comes from the fact this guy has now female breasts and is wearing a bra.
  • Butt-Monkey: The lawyer character in the movie epitomizes the trope, enduring a relentless series of physical and emotional abuses that drive the absurd comedy of the film. From the very beginning, his role is marked by a string of unfortunate events that set the stage for his involuntary transformation.
    • Episode 1 - The chaos begins when the lawyer attempts to assist a victim of a motorcycle accident. An ambulance arrives and accidentally hits him on the head, knocking him out cold. Moments later, one of the nurses attending to the scene accidentally kicks him in the groin leaving him in excruciating pain. His suffering doesn’t end there; as the lunatic male nurses strap him onto a stretcher inside the ambulance, his protests are silenced by a deliberate blow to the head with an oxygen tank, knocking him out once more. To add to the absurdity, they place a Minnie Mouse mask on his face, further dehumanizing and humiliating him. He is mistakenly taken to the hospital, and the journey quickly turns into a nightmare. He is tossed around on the stretcher, crashes into an animal center, and is chased and bitten by dogs. To top it off, he is hit by the ambulance yet again and ends up being transported to the hospital while clinging to the front of the vehicle. In the hospital he is placed on an operating table, intended for a female patient undergoing breast augmentation. Before he can fully comprehend the situation, an anesthesia mask is placed over his face. Despite his muffled attempts to alert the medical staff about the mix-up, he is powerless to stop the surgery and passes out as the doctors begin the procedure.
    • In-between Episodes 1-3 - In this movie, the "Chew Toy" character experiences significant and lasting consequences, even when the protagonists aren’t directly causing harm. As revealed later in Episode 3, the character undergoes breast augmentation surgery and must learn to cope with these new, prominent secondary sexual characteristics. Although the procedure is technically reversible, he hasn't opted for a reversal. We can speculate that the trauma of the experience, possibly manifesting as PTSD, keeps him from returning to a hospital. Alternatively, in the absurd universe of this movie, such procedures might not be as easily reversible as they seem. Regardless, the character adapts to his situation and begins regularly wearing a bra underneath male clothing.
    • Episode 3 - As the movie progresses, the lawyer's journey as a "Chew Toy" continues to evolve in increasingly humiliating ways. He is among the passengers on a flight managed by the protagonists and he is messed with on a constant basis while remaining the only surviving passenger on the plane. In one scene, he is accidentally stripped down to his underwear, revealing that he is now forced to wear a bra to support the breasts he received during the botched operation. This leads to a second, even more drastic, surgery where the character is fully transitioned into a woman. The absurdity of the situation is heightened by the fact that each surgical change is completely involuntary and results from a series of misunderstandings and mishaps, rather than any personal choice or identity exploration.
    • Episode 4 - By the time she reappears later in the film, she has embraced her new life as a woman. In a particularly humorous and surreal twist, she is shown performing a belly dance as an odalisque in a harem, dressed in revealing and exotic clothing.
  • Comedic Underwear Exposure: The main recurring victim is accidentally stripped to his underwear, revealing he is wearing a bra supporting breasts he received during an undesired augmentation surgery. The joke is entirely based on the fact that this guy is forced to wear a female garment due to the newly acquired assets.
  • Gender Bender: This is the main theme for the lawyer character that is progressively transitioned into a woman through the movie. Although usually genderbending happens through magic (or Applied Phlebotinum), here it happens entirely through unexpected physical surgeries that are also spread through time. This process is set in motion at the end of the first episode, when the character undergoes an accidental breast augmentation. Later in the movie we see him having breasts and wearing a bra as a result, although the character is still living and presenting as male. Mistaken for a transgender, he undergoes a second surgery, this time transitioning into a woman. As time passes, we find her performing belly dance as odalisque in a harem, dressed with skimpy clothing. When she talks with the protagonists, she describe her new life, that she pretty much accepted, as female servant and favorite concubine in the harem.
    • First Law of Gender Bending: The lawyer transition is male-to-female. In accordance with this law, the transition becomes more and more undoable. In fact, the first unexpected surgery (breast augmentation) is technically reversible (removing the implants). The second surgery is almost irreversible as the lawyer has his male genitalia removed. As well, ending up as odalisque in a harem, the character is also not in a position to change back even if she wanted, especially with the role of favorite in the harem. Also, becoming a woman is seen as an inherent demotion, punishment, or loss of status. This movie is a typical example, although also interesting due to the modular transition. At first the lawyer becomes a man with breasts, this doesn't equals woman but a male individual with such prominent secondary sexual characteristics is a huge demotion, also represented by him wearing a lacy black bra (Third Law of Gender-Bending). The way this is revealed (Comedic Underwear Exposure) is super humiliating as well, publicly exposing his Unmanly Secret that combines Hidden Buxom and Man in a Bikini. Once transitioned into woman, she has became odalisque in an harem to confirm the acquired subordinate status.
    • Third Law of Gender-Bending: After the first surgery, the character is still male, feels male and present as male. Although this is true, we also see this law is action as he is forced to adopt a gender appropriate garment in the form of a bra to support his female breasts. The bra itself it's black and lacy.
  • Groin Attack: At the beginning of the movie the lawyer is laying unconscious in the street after being hit by an ambulance, while taking care of him, one of the nurses accidentally kicks him in the groin. Later in the movie it is Renato Pozzetto that suffers a groin attack, being hit by the cane of a blind passenger on a plane while he is dressed as a female flight assistant. Also, during the last section (Santas episode) a character is victim of groin attacks, his groin being smashed into a piano (between fingerboard and cover) and hit by a water-jet later.
  • Height Angst: The main victim (the lawyer) is messed with on a constant basis. Among other things, he is rather short and mocked for his stature on multiple occasions. In the worst case he is "mistaken" for a hold luggage by Paolo Villaggio and almost thrown in airplane trunk.
    Lawyer: Have we met before?
    Renato Pozzetto: It's a small world... like you!.
  • Hidden Buxom: The lawyer character undergoes a breast augmentation at the end of the first episode. He is one of the passengers in the third episode. Initially the result of the surgery is kept hidden, then he is accidentally stripped to his underwear revealing a pair of large breasts.
  • Man, I Feel Like a Woman: This movie lacks a classical Man, I Feel Like a Woman moment for the simple reason that wants to keep the result of the breast augmentation surgery hidden until a reveal (see Hidden Buxom) and also because technically it is initially more a man that now has breasts than man-turned-woman situation, although the gender is later bent so this kind of overrides. Anyway there is a variation of this trope, as soon as the male character is accidentally stripped to his underwear revealing his pair of large breasts, he is grabbed and squeezed. This trope is basically enforced on him and works better as the implication is that the character had a breast augmentation by accident and he is weirded out by it but at the same time the events of the movie keeps pushing him towards becoming a woman, therefore the trope is bent into "man you feel like a woman". This is the variation of the events:
    1. The character is stripped to underwear, revealing breasts in a bra
    2. The character is shocked by the situation stare down at his breasts
    3. Another character grabs the breasts which leads to squeezing... and more squeezing...
    4. Shocked disbelief and screaming that he is a man and doesn't want to be grabbed
    5. The other character commenting that he is a woman
  • Impact Silhouette: In a couple of occasions this happens, highlighting even more the Toon Physics in the movie.
  • Man in a Bikini: At one point, the lawyer character is accidentally stripped to his underwear. He is wearing a lacy black bra due to the accidental surgery he underwent at the beginning of the movie.
  • Strapped to an Operating Table: A few variations.
    • A man is strapped to a stretcher by two lunatic male nurses. Since he is complaining too much, he is knocked out with an oxygen bottle and a Minnie Mouse mask is placed on his head.
    • The same man (he is a Butt-Monkey) finds himself on an operating table where he takes the place of a female patient. Before even understanding what is going on, an anesthesia mask is placed on his face. A doctor comes in and the man learnings they are going to perform a breast augmentation on him. He starts moaning but is not able to alert about the patient mix-up and passes out.
    • For a second time the same man finds himself on an operating table. He has been stripped to underwear revealing he has now a pair of breasts and he is wearing a lacy bra. A surgeon with comically large scissors approaches, implying he is going to have a sex reassignment. At this point he just passes out.
  • Sudden Musical Ending: The first episode ends at the hospital, with the main characters entering the tropical deseases and starting a musical number with costumes and choreography.
  • Tap on the Head: At the beginning of the movie the lawyer is helping a victim of a motorcycle accident. When the ambulance arrives, he is hit on the head by the vehicle and immediately incapacitated. A couple of minutes later, after a nasty kick in the groin (see Groin Attack), he is on the vehicle and, while he is protesting, he is hit on the head, voluntarily this time, with an oxigen tank that puts him out again and for much longer.
  • Toon Physics: In multiple occasions cartoon physics are applied, from the main characters exiting from the movie poster to people falling from a plane and surviving.
  • Unwilling Suspension: In one of the episodes the characters find themselves aboard a plane that suddenly flips upside down, leaving the passengers hanging precariously from their seats, held in place only by their seatbelts. The sensation is disorienting and terrifying, as gravity pulls them toward the ceiling. The passengers, gripped by fear, scream in panic, trapped in their awkward and uncomfortable positions. The recurring lawyer character loses his composure and frantically tries to free himself. Instead of offering reassurance, the flight attendants mock him, adding to the chaos. The situation escalates when an overweight woman’s seat gives way under the strain, crashing into the ceiling and tearing a hole in the fuselage, further endangering everyone on board.
  • You Are Fat: An overweight woman is one of the passengers in the plane episode. There are a few jokes targeting her. Also, her being overweight is the cause of her demise since when the lane is upside down, she causes the seat to detach, break through the roof and fall down.


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