'Momias': from Tadeo Jones to a pop Nefertiti against the looting of treasures

The fascination for Egypt, the pharaohs, archeology and travel through time has a new heroine in Nefer, the pop Nefertiti from

the children's animated film created by part of the team of

that clumsy imitator from Indiana Jones protagonist of one of the most successful sagas in the history of Spanish cinema.

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'Tadeo Jones 3: the emerald table', the most refined installment of the adventures of the archaeologist mason

The already veteran adventurer is taken over from the afterlife, where the mummy Nefer leads a gang that lives happily among the dead.

Thut, who was a charioteer in another life, his little brother and their pet, a cute baby crocodile mummy named Croc, complete the troupe

this entertaining and very well made animated film that gracefully exploits the pharaonic iconography: gold, blue and mortuary bandages turned into glamorous gloves and dresses.

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is an action film, with chariot races à la

a musical, with London's West End as its setting;

a story of adventure and travel, with a panoramic view of London that includes tributes to The Beatles' rooftop concert or the emblematic Harrod's department store;

and a romantic comedy between Nefer and Thur.

Its main characters, well-defined with few brushstrokes, are designed for children, but at the same time respond to a curious generational crossover in which little Nefer dances to an eighties

,

from The Bangles, or in which the villain of the story, a British archaeologist —Lord Carnaby— obsessed with Egyptian treasures, has the mobile tone when his castrating mother calls the famous screeching of wind instruments that Bernard Herrmann created for

by Hitchcock.

These are some of the winks (there are many more to hunt) that

offers the adult viewer without getting too entangled in references incomprehensible to his natural audience.

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If Tadeo Jones, the character who was born in 2004, parodied the figure of Indiana Jones,

humanizes Egyptology.

And that includes the mummy-crocodile, inspired by an embalmed baby of this animal in the British Museum.

Signed by Juan Jesús García Galocha, art director of

and

and written by two of the screenwriters linked to the successful

Jordi Gasull and Javier Barreira, the The film introduces the complex debate on the looting of Egyptian treasures without becoming moralizing, although this time the archaeologist ceases to be the hero and becomes his nemesis.

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Address:

Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha.

Genre:

animated adventures.

Spain, 2023.

Duration:

88 minutes.  

Premiere: February 24.

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