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68% Critic Match
I'm for the Hippopotamus
6.8 / 10• 1979• 1h 35m•PG-13• Italian
ActionAdventureComedy
Storyline
In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom’s cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal trafficker. A doctor, a friend of the duo, denounces Mr. Ormond’s exploitation of animals in a newspaper, prompting Ormond to send his henchmen to destroy the clinic where the good doctor practices. But at the medical facility, Ormond’s henchmen find Tom and Slim waiting for them, and in the blink of an eye, the two cousins wipe out these thugs in a brawl. Ormond then tries to bribe the two cousins, and when that fails, has them imprisoned for a theft they never committed. After escaping from prison, the two men rush toward Ormond’s ship, beating the merchant’s men to a pulp...
Cast & Crew
Terence Hill
Slim
Lead
Bud Spencer
Tom
Joe Bugner
Jack Ormond
MD
May Dlamini
Mama Leone
DJ
Dawn Jürgens
Stella
BM
Ben Masinga
Jason
LM
Les Marcowitz
Trixie
SN
Sandy Nkomo
Stella's Father
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Italo Zingarelli's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. I'm for the Hippopotamus is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
