Madrid, 1999. Costa, Roge, Pepo and Juan Luis are four 20-years-old who take a train to make their longtime dreamed end-of-year trip for traveling around Europe. However, in the first stop in Paris their baggage is stolen by a thieves, but when Costa, Pepo and Juan Luis get out the train to catch them they forget Roge, tied by the thieves to the seat with plastic adhesive. Not capturing the thieves, they too lose Roge when the train continues the travel, ruining their dream. 20 year later, all they have very separate lives: Costa is a blue-collar art scammer still thinking to be the same seductive as in his youth days, Roge is married with the stone-cold and dominant Tina working for her as babysitter of their own children, and Pepo continues living in student apartments passing from one to another when he is forced to go out for not paying the rental. Their lives change when the three are called to report them that Juan Luis has died, reuniting again after two decades to know his testament and last will: they will receive 600,000 EUR (674,000 $) if the three make the travel that 20 years ago couldn’t to make, with some conditions; visit the same places that they would meet before, publish it in social networks, and carry his funeral urn with his ashes to “live” the experience with them, making the travel in spirit. Reluctants but without options and with only one week to get the money, the three friends make the travel not only with 20 years of delay but like a fish out of water: Costa meets a beauty young girl named Lisa, trying to seduce her to prove himself than he continues being a macho; Roge tries desperately to recover Tina, just to discover that she doesn’t misses him; and Pepo is an absent-minded chaos walking who only wants to live in a perpetual party. Causing all kind of disasters everywhere they go, Costa, Roge and Pepo not only will have the travel of their dreams but their nightmares, when their past and their present collide with the force of a trainwreck. Will can get the money and keep their friendship before they kill each other?—Chockys
…. 4 guys go inter-railing but do not complete the trip then 20 years later one of them dies and leaves a will and 600.000 Euros but the rider is the 3 remaining guys need to complete the trip
the first few minutes are confusing as it is hard to accept a 47-year-old actor as being a plausible 20-year-old interrailer
no way round that one using young actors would mean you did not recognize who was who later on
anyway this is not a highbrow affair but plenty of comedy here good acting and 2 or 3 scenes where one really will laugh
some of the scenes seem to have been filmed on the cheap or as an after-thought or not too well thought out but all in all it works
the 3 musketeers (a conman a hen-pecked husband and an eternal teenager) with the urn of the deceased take a ride through Paris Prague Cluj a rave in Croatia Rome and finally return to Madrid. Plenty happens on the way.
It shows the Spanish take on humour very well and plenty of salty language punctuates the entire film
Watch it when you want something relaxing and light and it will tick those boxes elegantly.
