It's been a long time since I last saw a Spanish comedy this genial! It has a little of everything and everything is in its place. Like a giant puzzle where all the pieces fit and not even one is missing. No loose ends, no nonsense. The two parallel stories join when we least expect it and after all we have seen and laugh we are sure there's more. We just don't know if it will keep the level or will go higher. P. Tinto (Luis Ciges) and his wife had tried everything in the book to have a child, to no avail. They need children to take care of them and the family business. One of the problems is that ''dad'' never told ''son'' about the flowers and the bees and when ''son'' heard it through the grapevines, he got everything wrong. The couple move to a lonely place where the train passes every 25 years. Pray to God for a miracle and one day they get it. Two cute little martians arrive at their door and they take them as their own. Now they're happy but could be happier, so they write to the African Embassy in order to adopt a little orphan from over there. I need to stop here. Everything is hilarious and you have to see it to enjoy it!

It was the highlight of Göteborg Film Festival the year I saw it (around 2002 I believe) and I have been looking for it in stores ever since, but not yet found it (though I had mistaken one of the words in the original title so that may explain why).It is in the same spirit as such weird comedy masterpieces as Jeunet & Caros Delicatessen and City of Lost Children at in no way less than those two.I'm sad that it doesn't seem to have reached a larger audience. It really deserves to be a classic.If you can see this film, don't you miss it!

DISCLAIMER: You may need to know a little bit of Spanish history (50's - 70's) to understand some of the points. However, most of them are easy to get, and you will find that before you stop laughing at one of the jokes, there are another hitting you!This movie can easily be considered a classic. If you liked Gillian's Brazil, this one will blow you away. Be aware that the director did not try to make a funny story, but a tender, memorable story about paternity and family ties. He made an impressive movie that still can make you laugh so hard that your belly will hurt!At the same time, the baseline transmits the idea that 'no matter how ugly, weird, and mentally disabled you are, you can be happy loving and feeling loved'. It is also a monument erected to praise ingenuity. **Possible Spoiler**A couple of dwarf Martians arrive to hearth in a 'convertible' seat 600 small popular old Spanish car, complaining about the food in their planet, and are adopted by P.tinto and Olivia, an old couple that have no children and write daily to 'Paris' to 'order' a baby. Not happy with that, the family increases when a monstrous, overweighed psycho escaped from an asylum, that does not speak Spanish to begin with, is adopted as another child and renamed 'Joselito' little Jose. Time elapses and the house is populated by yet another freak, Usillos, a fixing guy that basically lives there because their work takes for ever. Surreal things are everywhere; for example, one of the dwarf Martians gets converted to Catholicism and becomes a priest (!)There are no 'bad guys' and 'good guys'; basically everything is so twisted that such tags will make no sense at all. There are more than one spots where one thinks that the movie is ending... but not!BTW, don't miss the soundtrack!rating 10/10

Laugh, laugh and more laugh. The story can't be told but the fun time you have is more than a standard script. The best moment, the revisited ET phone home. A carpetovetonic flight to another era and time...Go javier,go. The Oscar is awaiting you