The Baracchino, review of the animated series on Prime Videos

The shackthe new original series of first videos, is the animated equivalent of what has been happening for several years now to the Italian comedy, in particular to the stand-up. His major representatives, the usual known but increasing compared to the beginning of a phenomenon to be considered still recently, are taken and divided To make “belonging” products that rotate if not always, certainly often around the world of laughter. It happened with the game shows, just think of another (already passed) hit of the streaming service, the LOL – Whoever laughs is out arrived in his fifth season. But it is possible to find it in many areas of the show not only linked to the stage of the stage, going from cinema to seriality, up to podcasts, to the second evening programs (the most iconic example is certainly A patch of Laniniwith the latter who has not unexpectedly taken part in The shack) and the next output product for TV8 In & out – nothing seriousshows in which the participants will divide between comic pieces, monologues and guests.

This time, with The shackthe Comedian stand-ups lent their voices. Here too, it is not the first time: the animated film is from 2022 Too bad Produced by Dreamworks Animation and Scholastic for whose Italian version we chose to collect and put together personalities such as Edoardo Ferrario, Saverio Raimondo, Francesco De Carlo, Andrea Perroni and Valerio Lanini – complete with sequels coming in August.

The shack between laughter and animation

The first video project, however, has completely another origin, which amplifies the sense of that cited belonging that involves the group of comedians, as it is conceived and developed, among others, by one of them. AND Salvo di Paola one half of the couple formed together with Nicolò Cuccì which has created and directed the animated series of first videos (and also dubbed), behind which there is their megadrago, specialized animation study In Mixed-Media projects who edited the visual part of The shack. A mixed technique that combines several means, from 2D and 3D animation stop-motion to those who have more put more (on the show there is also a puppet of one meter and winds animated on green screen and moved with threads), for the story of a local stand-up local historian, the shack of the title, destined for the closure, which is what wants to prevent the protagonist Claudia.

To double it, this time, not an election comedian, but certainly one of the brightest and most dedicated actresses to the genre of our panorama, Pilar Fogliati, also of returning to dubbing after the blossom of the film, always in mixed technique although more traditional, If – imaginary friends. But to support her, they cannot be missing, precisely, of the companions from the universe of the stand-up: from Edoardo Ferrario to Luca Ravenna, from Daniele Tinti to Stefano Rapone, to Michela Giraudo, Yoko Yamada and Frank Matano.

As The shack It does in a single blow home and church. By Paola, comedian in turnaround for tours and guest in recall programs such as Live propagandahe melts in a single container the passions that invest his life for a story about the death and rebirth of a place where he brings together many of his colleagues, bringing them back to the beginning, when he climbed (and why not, he descended) from a stage most of the times terrified. A team of misfits who, guided by Claudia, have only one last chance in order not to close the venue of the unicorn Maurizio – that is: Lillo Petrolo – so they commit themselves to finding the way to keep the stage e Find the right joke (In the series there is even the perfect joke, but you have to take your time to find it).

In the magical and terrible world of comedy

It is fun to follow the companies and misfortunes of a show in which comedy is the vehicle with which to tell how a vocation can turn on or break you, can illuminate everything or make you sink into the darkness. An ironic show that also knows how to take on the counterattack, who uses many swear words and makes you feel part of the restart slowly, but coveted by the Baracchino. Like when with the animation of Zerocalcare for Tear along the edges And This world will not make me bad He felt he sat together with the characters on the park bench to eat ice cream and reflect, frightened, on life. Perhaps the only big difference is that the two Netflix series allowed a wider breath than the closed place (and not just physical) de The shacknot umbilical but certainly always reserved for a type of spectator who already chews the world of comedy, and not in which it is introduced as, for example, of The fantastic Mrs. Maisel.

It was always with a horse – that nothing else is if not a missed unicorn – that we went into the world of the Star System, and its fall, with Bojack Horsemanof which the show seems to be a child in its magazine and Italian variant (many references The shackfrom the fake-consciousness of the classics The Office And Parks and Recreation to aspirations to the Saturday Night Live). It will also be for the duration of the show, Six episodes for less than twenty minuteswhich make more an appetizer than a complete dish, certainly delicious but that does not completely know. Of which he would not have been sorry to have another slice, slightly widen his gaze and expand the story and the characters. But, after all, that’s how it also begins in the stand-up, with small monologues for a few minutes, opening up to other comedians, and then throwing themselves into more complex shows. Maybe it is the destiny of The shack. AND, We wish itof the animated studio of Cuccì and Paola.