O Casamento dos Trapalhões (translates "The Tramps' Wedding") is a 1988 comedy film, directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and one of the many comedies starring the TV comedy group "The Tramps" (Os Trapalhões)
Renato Aragão,
Dedé Santana,
Mussum and
Zacarias. Loosely based on the 1954 film
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with the fourtet as the hillbilly brothers whose shabby life and routine changes when older brother Didi (Aragão) goes to the city seeking to find a wife and winds up falling in love and marrying a waitress Joana and bringing her to the farm. This encourages the brothers to seek women in the city, but winds up creating a feud with the local bully Expedito and being kicked out of town, having to sneak their way back to find their loves again.
This movie contains examples of:
- Adaptational Heroism: In the original film, the brothers think the best way to get their girls is abducting them and keeping them in their farm. Here, they sneak their way back into town after being threatened by the local gang leader if they appeared again, and their girls move to the farm by their own accordion.
- Animated Credits Opening: The credits consists of animated versions of the quartet causing mayhem during their routine at the farm.
- Altar the Speed: Just like in the original movie, Didi and Joana get married the same night they married.
- Bar Brawl: Didi and Joana meet at a diner and bond after he starts a brawl with local bully Expedito (who constantly mistreated Joana), humiliating the bad guy in the process.
- Big Bad: Expedito, the local bully, was humiliated during a brawl where Didi and Joana met and later a fight between the brothers, their nephews and Expedito's goons, and in retaliation, he convinces the townsmen that the brothers kidnapped the girls who joined them and forms a posse to try and lynch them.
- Deus ex Machina: At the climax, Expedito's posse has the nephews at gunpoint and are seemingly convinced that they're kidnapped and deserve to be executed, and make a quick trial where they're found guilty and one by one are about to be executed... Then one of the members point his gun to Expedito and they reveal that they never intended to follow proceed with his plans to make an extrajudicial execution and just took the opportunity to finaly arrest the local bully.
- Foreign Remake: of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, with the quartet as the brothers plus their three nephews (played by the Brazilian boy band Grupo Dominó).
- The Ghost: The Tramps' sister, who sends a letter to them informing them that she's sending her three sons to spend a few months with them. Said nephews complete the seven brothers from the original film.
- Hollywood Genetics: The four brothers consist of the three white Tramps Didi, Dedé and Zacarias and the black Mussum, and if their parents' portrait is of any indication, both of their genitors were white. Possibly justified as it's common in Brazilian families to have siblings of different skin tons, and it's possible that one of both of their parents had black ancestors.
- The Pigpen: The Tramps lack the slightest bit of cleanliness before Joana arrives. She's initially turned off by their lack of manners and hygiene, but they eventually get better, to the point that she thinks they're cute once the dirt if off.
- Same Language Dub: Joana's boss at the diner is played by Carlos Wilson, but his dialogue is dubbed by André Luiz Chapéu.
