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Indonesia 1994
Director: Arizal
Cast: Dono, Kasino, Indro, Sally Marcellina, Taffana Dewi, Malfin Shayna, Pak Tile
Rating: Dewasa (Adult)
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
VCD Quality: Poor/Decent/Excellent
Release Date: 1994; 8 February 2006 (VCD)
Running Length: 1 hour 20 minutes 15 seconds
The Movie Review
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WARKOP DKI:
PENCET SANA PENCET SINI
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It must be wonderful to stay on top for most of the time or stay put in the prime of life. Concerning that, there’s a saying that tells people to retire while they're still on top. Sigh... After so many movies with very low quality, which particularly released in the 90s, Warkop seemed were still trying to entertain the audience with its already unfunny jokes. Differs greatly with Warkop movies back in the 80s, this another entry from Warkop Comedy Group contains unclear materials that absolutely fall to the exploitation subgenre. And not in a good way...
Dono, Kasino and Indro are middle-aged men who live at a big house right by the beach and apparently famous among the sexy girls populating the beach. Dono's uncle Dewo Sastro comes to stay in their house along with Dono's sexy cousins Nela and Selfi. The Jokes derived mainly from Kasino and Indro's effort to get close to the girls but have to deal first with the uptight and old-school Uncle Dewo Sastro. Dono is also trying to get his stingy uncle to buy him a car, since Kasino and Indro warns Dono that most girls nowadays only want to be dated with a man who owns a car.
But, uncle Dewo Sastro is persistent not to buy a car for Dono, giving a reason that even himself doesn't change his car for twenty years. For this problem, Indro gives another advice to Dono on how to get money from his uncle, which is by setting up a scene where Dono is kidnapped by a bad guy who will ask for enough ransom money for Dono, Kasino, Indro and the bad guy himself. Their little scheme is actually a very bad idea since Indro is hiring a true merciless thug who asks for bigger ransom money and wants all the money for himself only and even threatens to really hurt Dono if uncle Dewo Sastro does not co-operate.
I've said earlier about exploitative right?! Alright, this is a comedy movie, so no gore or bloody mess to be seen anywhere, so it relies heavily on the sexual theme. No nudity though, only girls wearing bikini and sexy clothes which are absolutely inappropriate to wear them in broad daylight. I don't want to be a hypocrite by saying that I don't like those girls, surely they're Indonesian beauties, however seeing them doesn't save me from feeling bored. However, what is so sad about the jokes that it even tries to use the same joke using a gorilla figure in the beginning and at the end of the movie exactly the same as in Warkop DKI: Atas Boleh Bawah Boleh (1986), the difference? That cheesy gorilla suit is not funny anymore. If it's funny, then the re-use material is still ok.
The storyline is an absolute wallpaper thin or even onion-skin thin! It doesn't take a genius to notice that there is zilch logic in everything! And it doesn't take the most nitpicking reviewer/critic to point so many errors in the story and my... my...what a mind-numbing dialogue combined with lackluster directing. Stifling a yawn was a hard work while I was watching this film, everything is just too boring for me to be able to label it as "So bad it's good".
And after the story seems going to be ended nicely, there's a twist that's so unnecessary and arguably just to fill the rest of the running length by showing girls wearing bikini dancing while Kasino is singing, and then there's also a scene where the guys tries Dono's new car and boringly being chased by two dumb "cops" (Pak Tile and Diding Boneng) who mistaken them for mannequins after cornering them inside a mall.
It takes a very naive and green boy to truly believe the storyline or at least to like it. A very naive one.
Oh my... What a shame... Warkop is still one of my favorite comedy groups no matter how bad the quality of their movies in the 90s, but it's because I have a vivid memory in mind of how excited I was when watching their movies in the 80s along with other great Indonesian movies in that decade. Highly likely for fellow moviegoers, who have never watched their true comedy movies, would consider their movies to be crass and uncultured. Sadly, Pencet Sana Pencet Sini does not fix their dropping reputation which makes this movie falls to the numerous stocks of exploitative Indonesian movies in the 90s.
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
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