Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella (2001) Reviews

• Second entry in ¨Torrente series¨ starred by the most grotesque and dirty detective well played by Santiago Segura

  ma-cortes2015-04-08

  Featuring politically incorrect private detective Torrente (Santiago Segura) , he is a lazy, rude , despicable drunkard , caring only about protecting and serving himself . Despite that, he still manages to get the job done . Torrente follows the exploits of Jose Luis Torrente, a Bad Santa of the police force . This time he is moved to Marbella, where , after being wiped out of the money he had gained , has returned to private investigation . As usual , being helped by Cuco (Gabino Diego) , both of whom attempt to detain the local Mafia . Meanwhile , Torrente falls in love for a beautiful singer (Ines Sastre) but is utterly rejected . In one of his cases he discovers the illegalities and irregularities of a powerful magnate (Jose Luis Moreno) and gets involved in the middle of a nasty's missile plot to destroy the city and his own uncle's blackmail operation . This is 2º installment in Torrente series . These films are made to entertain , and this movie , especially for a good time and a nice entertainment . "Torrente 2" is a passable and unapologetic dark comedy with great special effects , it has several funny and hilarious scenes and quite successful action scenes with persecution , car chases and many other things . The picture contains thrills , nosy action , tongue-in-cheek , profanities , grotesque situations and above all , humor . Torrente 2 is written, directed, produced and stars Segura, whose production house Amiguetes Entertainment produced the film , UIP holds Spanish distribution rights . The screenplay is absurd as well as crazy , just what makes laugh a lot , that the character "Torrente" very slutty , clumsy , sexist , extreme-right-wing , on a real person is despicable , being not adequate , but this is a film that satirizes all this and that just means it's a pathetic character , though he also has his charms . Torrente 2 grossed more than €22 million in 2001 and the first Torrente, which set box office records in its day, took $707,000 . The film contains many cameos of famous people, familiar faces such as Tony Leblanc , Juanito Navarro , Joe Luis Lopez Vazquez , Paloma Cela , Santi Millan , Jose Mota , Pablo Carbonel ,among others . This film will not disappoint Santiago Segura fans. The first outing was ¨Torrente El Brazo Tonto De La Ley¨ in which he fights against the oriental mafia in Madrid , being starred by Javier Cámara , Neus Asensi , Chus Lampreave , Tony Leblanc , Antonio De La Torre ; ¨Torrente 3 El Protector¨ in which the horrendous Spanish detective becomes a bodyguard , being performed by José Mota , Javier Gutiérrez , Carlos Latre , Yvonne Sciò , Eduardo García , Fabio Testi ; ¨Torrente 4 Lethal crisis¨ with Carlos Areces , Kiko Rivera , Javier Gutiérrez , Fernando Esteso and ¨Torrente V: Misión Eurovegas¨ with Alec Baldwin , Anna Simon ,Neus Asensi , Pablo Motos , Chus Lampreave ,Andrés Pajares . The movies were written by, directed by and starred popular Spanish comedian-director Santiago Segura and is getting the remake treatment from New Line Cinema ; all of them were produced by Andres Vicente Gomez, who exec produced the Academy Award-winning Belle Epoque

• . Torrente he gets involved in a blackmailing against the mayor of Marbella.

  payoguiri2006-04-26

  After I saw Torrente 2 in Spanish I didn't know what to say... I've never seen any comparable kind of humor in a movie before! But I realized that Mr. Segura tried to gather some typical "inpolite" attitudes of Spanish society concentrating them in the character of Torrente. So this movie can be seen as a very exaggerated reflection of the low-class-society in Spain (e.g. have a look at the low register language Torrente employs!). But just that makes the flick so funny in a (in Germany) never seen form before. The German sync.-version is a catastrophe! The expressions Torrente uses are too hard in German and too unusual. That makes the character "Torrente" some kind of confusing. Anyway I recommend this movie, especially when you dominate the Spanish language!

• Super movie, cool humor

  schortinghuis2004-03-21

  I've seen Torrente 1. GREAT. Torrente 2 is Great too. It is an outrage that Torrente 2 is not available in the Netherlands. I have just ordered a copy in Spain with English undertitles. Torrente 2 is raunchy, dirty and full of big and small jokes. Santiago Segura is the KING.... Torrente rules and i hope he will makes lots of other Torrente's. The More the better. I liked the part in T2 where he is sitting and peeing in a swimming pool making racist remarks with his white FAT belly. Segura makes Torrente look like a real loser who thinks he is great. Wrong closes, sunglasses and foul language completes this dirty old ba****d. These movies are my favourite in my dvd collection. I'd never knew that Spain had such fantastic humor. My compliments to you....

• The Spanish Godfather

  chemacc2001-04-16

  Torrente 2 is a funny film that reviews all the important themes of the Spanish topics. It's a really ironic film, that needs to be seen from the point of view of how to hate the worst person in the World. Santiago Segura plays the role of Torrente, and is able to make you hate him, and you can't stop laughing when you understand the sense of this film.

• Super

  schortinghuis2004-11-13

  Torrente is back in this one. He is great as political-incorrect detective scumbag. I think this one is even better than the first one. And the first one was great too. The good acting, beautiful colours and incorrect jokes has resulted in a first class rude comedy. It's not recomendable for women with a bad taste of humour. This movie is my favourite one. Rumours say that Torrente 3 will soon be made...Can't wait to see that one. Very lousy is the fact that Torrente 2 is hard to get in the Netherlands. I had to buy it from a Spanish internet seller. At the moment Santiago Segura is the best that Europe has to offer..!!!!!!