Uma Aventura no Tempo

Infobox film
name = Uma Aventura no Tempo


image_size =
caption = Theatrical movie poster.
director = Maurício de Sousa
Rodrigo Gava (co-director)
André Passos (co-director)
Clewerson Saremba (co-director)
producer = Diler Trindade
Bruno Bluwol (associate producer)
Wilson Borges (co-producer)
Felipe Pinto (production manager)
writer = Emerson Bernardo de Abreu
Flávio de Souza
Didi Oliveira
Maurício de Sousa
Airon Barreto de Lacerda (story)
Manoel Barreto de Lacerda (story)
Elisabeth Mendes (story)
narrator =
starring = Marli Bortoletto Angélica Santos Paulo Camargo Elza Gonçalves Rodrigo Andreatto Bianca Rinaldi Maurício de Sousa
music = Márcio Araújo
Danilo Adriano
cinematography =
editing = João Paulo Carvalho
Rafael Gomes
distributor = Buena Vista International
released = February 16, 2007
runtime = 80 minutes
country = flagicon|Brazil Brazil
language = Portuguese
budget =
preceded_by = "Cinegibi - O Filme" (2004)
followed_by =
website = http://www.umaaventuranotempo.com.br
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0871896

"Uma Aventura no Tempo" (Portuguese for "An adventure through time") is a 2007 Brazilian animated film based on the "Monica's Gang" comic books. The film was directed and co-written by Maurício de Sousa, creator of over two hundred characters featured in the comic books.

Plot

The film begins with Franjinha (Frank) finishing the building of his time travel machine and explaining to his dog Bidu that it works with the synthesis of the four elements. Not far away from his office, Cebolinha (Jimmy Five) and Cascão (Smudge) are planning an "unfailible plan" to steal Sansão (Samson), a blue rabbit toy, from Monica. Eventually, the plan fails and Monica, which was engaged in a picnic with Magali (Maggy) discovers it. Cebolinha and Cascão rush into Franjinha's office to hide from Monica. Monica and Magali go there and Monica, trying to beat up the boys, accidentally throws her rabbit on Franjinha's machine causing the elements to travel to different periods of time. Franjinha sends each one of them to a different period in order to find the elements and bring them back to his office. If they don't bring back all the elements, time will get slower and evetually stop. Monica and Bidu (the latter entered in the machine by an accident) are sent to prehistory to recover the element of fire. Cebolinha is sent to the XXX century to recover the element of air. Magali is sent to a few years back - when the gang members were babies - to recover the element of earth. Cascão is sent to an indigenous tribe in the XVII century to recover water.

Cast

* Marli Bortoletto as Mônica (Monica)
* Angélica Santos as Cebolinha (Jimmy Five)
* Paulo Camargo as Cascão (Smudge)
* Elza Gonçalves as Magali (Maggy)
* Rodrigo Andreatto as Franjinha (Franklin)
*Bianca Rinaldi as Cabeleira Negra (Auroura Borealis)
*Maurício de Sousa as Bidu

Release

Critical reception

Alessandro Giannini, film reviewer of "Carta Capital", says the film uses advanced technique for Brazilian standards and has a dynamic script. But he says that the use of old narrative models such as "time travel" and the "seductive villain" is something to regret for. [http://www.cartacapital.com.br/2007/02/a-monica-mais-perto-da-disney/?searchterm=Turma%20da%20Mônica]

Public reception

According to the Internet Movie Database, as of May 6, 2007 the film had grossed over four million reais in the Brazilian box office. It sold over four hundred tickets [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0871896/business Turma da Mônica em Uma Aventura No Tempo (2007) - Box office / business ] ] , making this one of the highest grossing films of 2007 in the country.

It received an average rating of 6.5 by IMDb users. It was better rated in Brazilian film guide site Adoro Cinema, where it did not received any rating lower than seven. [ [http://www.adorocinema.com.br/filmes/turma-da-monica/turma-da-monica.asp FILMES - Turma da Mônica em Uma Aventura no Tempo ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.umaaventuranotempo.com.br "Uma Aventura no Tempo" official web site]