Los supersabios (1978) User Reviews

The Supersabios

[DogePelis2015 · 6/10 · 18 September 2021]

This is the second animated feature film made and produced in Mexico; the plot of the trip to Saturn is decent and the animation is good for the time; it is a jewel of the past.

One of the best epic cartoons ever.

[RuiCraveiro · 10/10 · 11 June 2003]

I didn't know by the time (when I see this movie on videotape), that the film was made in 1978. It's the best movie that I ever watched. If there's on videotape, not in Portugal, but the in the rest of world, you'll see the history that's about a idea to fly away on distant planets and galaxies.

Outstanding Mexican animation!

[pv61 · 23 September 2011]

Los Supersabios (Pepe and Paco, because Panza was not so wise), were born in 1936 as a newspaper's comic strip and then became a comic book. From the comic book to the movie we had to wait more than 42 years. Even with some small changes in the design of some of the characters, mainly female, it was worth the wait...

It's still the best Mexican animated movie of all time. Weird how with the new technology and after more than 31 years, animation in México seems to be going backwards... Maybe even without computers, using only their hands, México could try to make better things than they actually do nowadays.

Here appears the voice of one of our best voice actors, Mr Jorge Arvizu, who is a very important piece in the world of dubbing in México...

Only of historical value

[Masklin8 · 4/10 · 23 March 2007]

Los Supersabios is a movie based on the great comic of the same name by Mexican writer and artist Germán Butze. It is about a group of young boys who secretly build a rocket to travel to other planets. Unfortunately, the movie has no plot at all: is as if the writers came up with the next scene once they seen the previous one. The ending is irrelevant to anything that happened before, and some sequences seem to be there only to fill time (like the part where the group goes to see a band playing). The movie has great moments (the part where Panza is inside the transparent living balloon), but the script cannot stand up. In all, it is an interesting effort, but a terrible movie, only important for being one of the six (count'em: SIX) animated movies ever made in Mexico to this date. The comic is amazing, read it!