But only for a few seconds they snap right back. Luca and Alberto team up with the feisty, flame-haired Giuilia (Emma Berman), who can get them into the race, and they spend some time at her house, quaking under the mostly wordless gaze of her hulking, brooding, one-armed knife-happy fisherman father, Massimo (Marco Barricelli), who lives in mortal fear of sea monsters and makes the tastiest looking pesto pasta, which our two heroes literally stuff their faces with, since they have no idea how to use a fork.Įvery so often, an overhead leak or a thrown glass of water will land on their skin and reveal their psychedelically hued sea-monster selves. “Luca” is a bit colorless until the two boys arrive in the sloping fishing village of Portorosso, with its crooked pastel buildings and winding streets, its sun-dappled town square dotted with a trattoria and a pescheria, its poster of “La Strada.” So quaint! So picturesque! So Fellini meets De Sica meets your trusty postwar travel agent! Once there, they discover there’s going to be a local competition, the annual Portorosso Cup triathlon (swimming, pasta eating, bike riding), the winner of which will receive a prize of enough money to buy a Vespa. Alberto is alone except for all the junk he collects, but with his reckless high spirits he’s got a dream: He’ll do anything to own a Vespa! That’s right, the fabled Italian motor scooter that was introduced in 1946. He meets the teenage Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer), who’s like the sea-monster version of a Jonas brother, and who’s been on land for a while, living in an abandoned stone castle column as a real boy. Crawling up on a rocky beach, he becomes a curly-haired, big-eyed kid who looks Italian but still sounds, in the performance of Jacob Tremblay (from “Wonder”), like a wide-eyed American everykid. Luca is desperate to go ashore, despite the dire warnings of his parents, the brassy Daniela (Maya Rudolph) and lumpish Lorenzo (Jim Gaffigan).
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