Una película de huevos (A Movie about Eggs in English) is an animated Mexican film created by the Huevocartoon company. Directed by Rodolfo and Gabriel Riva Palacio and produced by Carlos Zepeda and Elisa Salinas, it is the first animated feature film by said company and stars the voices of many Mexican celebrities such as Bruno Bichir, Angelica Vale and Carlos Espejel to name a few. It was released on April 21, 2006.
It tells the story of a young chicken egg named Toto (Bichir), who, after being laid by his loving mother hen, is promptly taken away from her for human consumption. Separated from his mother, he meets more fellow eggs and befriends a soldier egg named Willy (Espejel) and a non-talking strip of bacon just named Tocino. He and his new friends must now make a dangerous and long journey across Mexico City in order to reach las "Granjas El Pollón" (The Big Chicken Farms) where Toto will meet with his mother and successfully hatch into a young, strong chick. Along the way they meet new allies and try to escape the villainous clutches of the reptile eggs, led by Big Bad Coco, a crocodile egg.
The movie was quite popular and enjoyed pretty good reception from audiences and critics alike. It was followed by a sequel in 2009, Otra Pelicula De Huevos Y Un Pollo. The sequel is aimed at a noticeably older audience. Most of the cast members reprised their roles in the second installment. After hatching into a chicken, Toto is not very comfortable with his new life and wishes he was just an egg again, much to his mom's dismay. At the same time, an evil Warlock egg from a ghost town in the desert who feels empty and wishes to have a heart, reads a spell book wich claims that the only way to gain feelings is stealing a chicken's heart and eating it. He sends his vulture egg henchmen to the city, where they find and kidnap Toto, prompting his friends to go and rescue him in yet another adventure whith the help of the now-redeemed Coco and his reptile egg army.
The film was never released outside Latin America and has no English dub or subtitles until a fansubbed version was uploaded on October 6, 2023.
The second film was just as successful as the first one and especially pleased long-time Huevocartoon fans.
The third film, Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos, was animated in CGI unlike its predecessors and deals with Toto having grown into a young rooster as he decides to train as a gamecock so he can fight against the champion, Bankivoide, with the intent of saving his home farm from a greedy rancher. He also gains a Love Interest in the form of a hen named Di, voiced by Maite Perroni.
After that, it was followed up by Un Rescate De Huevitos in 2021 and the final film in the series Huevitos Congelados in 2022.
Tropes found in this movies:
- Abusive Parents: Coco's father, The Crocodile, is rather mean and cruel towards him. However, shortly after Coco and his reptile egg army depart to find Toto and his friends and destroy them, he reveals he actually loves his son in his own twisted, dark way.
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Toto, Willy and Tocino encounter one in the first movie. Justified because we're seeing the world from their perspective.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Tocino (Bacon in Spanish) is just a strip of bacon. There's also Tlacua and Cuache, a pair of opposums (Virginia opossums are known as "tlacuaches" in Mexico) and The Crocodile, Coco's father.
- Alliterative Family: Bibi's brothers are named Bebi and Bubi.
- Always Chaotic Evil: Most eggs perceive humans as this. The reptile eggs at first appear as this, but it turns out they're capable of redemption and getting along with bird eggs. The scorpion eggs in the sequel play this straight at first too, but in the end decide not to kill Toto and instead fight on his side after he saved them from nearly dying frozen solid in a highly cold desert night.
- Ambiguously Gay: Coco in the first movie can come across as being very effeminate and melodramatic sometimes. By the end of the film, he starts a relationship with the Effeminate Egg, a completely unambigously homosexual egg.
- Amplified Animal Aptitude: Most of the animals behave and are much smarter than their real-life counterparts.
- Animal Motifs: Most unhatched, yet walking, talking eggs have some attributes which help identify their true animal species. Reptilian eggs are usually green in coloration, have slit pupils, sharp teeth, and, in Serp's case, fully developed tails signaling the impending emergence of the hatchling inside.
- Animal Talk: Eggs can only talk and view themselves as anthropomorphized by their fellow eggs. We humans see them merely as eggs. The animals can also only talk among themselves and we hear them just uttering their natural sounds, as in many other animated movies involving this trope. This is more evident in the sequel, where Toto (as a chicken) yells loudly at the sorcerer human to take him away from the sorcerer egg, but all the human hears is just pure chirping. The animals also perceive eggs as sentient too. This makes sense, since eggs are laid by oviparous animals.
- Artistic License – Biology:
- Among other things, Tlacua and Cuache frequently travel as a duo, whereas real-life opossums are chiefly solitary. The film also seems to go by the all too common rule that, as long as eggs are not destined to human consumption, they can hatch into chicks. The fact that a good deal of the major non-chicken egg characters haven't hatched yet can be quite confusing as well.
- One of The Crocodile's henchmen is a frog, despite the fact that his gang is mostly made of reptiles. Then again, this isn't a particularly glaring mistake, as herpetology studies both reptiles and amphibians alike.
- Serp is a rattlesnake egg. Rattlesnakes, as pit vipers, give live births in real life.
- The second movie has characters that are scorpion eggs. In real life scorpions do not lay eggs, but instead give live birth.
- Bad Boss: The Warlock Egg from the sequel is this to his henchmen, even attacking them with spells when he's mad at them.
- Big Bad: Coco in the first film, Warlock Egg in the second.
- Cats Are Mean: In the first film, Toto, Willy and Tocino have to escape from a rather dangerous cat with a taste for eggs.
- Darker and Edgier: While the first movie has some creepy moments, the sequel has more serious moments than the first movie, it has more violent scenes, Willy nearly dies after being stung by a scorpion egg, and the Warlock Egg, while having a campy way to talk, is more threatening than the villains of the first movie. He wants to kill Toto just for a spell!
- Double-Meaning Title: "Una película de huevos" is a Spanish title meaning either A Movie about Eggs or "a movie about balls" [courage]
- Dub Name Change: For whatever reason, the third movie's English dub changes the main character's name from "Toto" to "Rollo".
- Egg Folk: What else can you expect from a film series with the word "egg" in the name?
- G-Rated Stoner: The confetti eggs all act like they are high on drugs.
- Heel–Face Turn: Coco starts off as a villain, but then has allied himself with Toto by the end of the first film.
- Humans Are Cthulhu: As mentioned in "Always Chaotic Evil", the eggs view humans as evil monsters.
- Identically Named Group: All the confetti eggs are named "Confi".
- Informed Species: Tlacua and Cuache, with their round ears, brown fur, and more rotund snout with a pair of tiny rodent teeth hanging from their upper lip look nothing at all like Virginia opossums◊ and instead resemble stereotypical cartoon rats. That being said, they still bear a vague resemblance to the common opossum◊.
- Non-Mammalian Hair: Coco, a crocodile egg, has a full head of hair.
- Shifted to CGI: The first two films were in 2-D, the third movie is in CG.
- Speech-Impaired Animal: Many animals can talk to each other just fine, as well as the eggs themselves, but there are a few exceptions. Namely, the cat that tries to make a meal of Toto, Willy and Tocino is only heard meowing, yowling and hissing, Serp's uncle can only communicate by hissing and rattling his tail and a frog that is part of The Crocodile's gang seems to be only able of croaking.
- Work Info Title: The film's name literally means "A Movie About Eggs" in English. Doesn't get more blatant than that.
