{{Infobox film | name = Le comiche | image = Le-comiche poster.jpg | caption = | director = Neri Parenti | writer = Alessandro Bencivenni<br /> Leonardo Benvenuti<br /> Piero De Bernardi<br /> Neri Parenti<br /> Domenico Saverni | starring = Renato Pozzetto <br /> Paolo Villaggio | music = Bruno Zambrini | cinematography = Sandro Tamborra<br /> Roberto Gerardi | editing = | producer = Mario Cecchi Gori<br /> Vittorio Cecchi Gori | released ={{Film date|1990|10|28}} | language =Italian }} '''''Le comiche''''' is a 1990 Italian comedy film written and directed by Neri Parenti and starring Renato Pozzetto and Paolo Villaggio.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mario Serenellini|title=No, non è Fantozzi ma gli somiglia|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/11/10/no-non-fantozzi-ma-gli-somiglia.html?ref=search|accessdate=24 November 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=10 November 1990}}</ref><ref name="80-89-l">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 2000|isbn=8877424230}}</ref> It had two sequels, ''Le comiche 2'' (1991) and ''Le nuove comiche'' (1994).<ref name=Mereghetti>{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}</ref>
==Plot== Neri Parenti creates some comic episodes, inserting various gags taken from films of the past: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In the silent black and white prologue two railroad workers, Paolo and Renato, are trying to outrun a steam train and jump out of the screen into a movie theatre; in the first episode they are bungling painters who ruin a wedding; in the second the two friends destroy a gas station; in the third episode they are forced to work in the mountain chalet, ruining the holiday for all customers; in the last the two friends are the perfect double of two fierce mafia, who plan to use the "twins" for a suicide mission; in the epilogue Paolo and Renato are chased by characters of all the episodes back into the silent film.
== Cast == *Renato Pozzetto as Renato *Paolo Villaggio as Paolo *Fabio Traversa as Mario * Alessandra Casella as Domitilla *Gian as Amilcare *Tiziana Pini as Amilcare's wife *Enzo Cannavale as the priest *Sal Borgese as the gas station attendant * Renato D'Amore as the innkeeper * Giovanni Cianfriglia as the trucker * Ennio Antonelli as the pizza chef * Andrea Belfiore as the stripper at the nightclub * Pierfrancesco Villaggio as the bodyguard * Franca Scagnetti as a guest at the wedding
==See also== *List of Italian films of 1990 *https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le_comiche
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0099293}} *[https://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=DD8769 Le comiche] at ''ANICA'', Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it
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