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Based on the popular children's song by María Elena Walsh, a young female turtle goes on an adventure where she becomes a fashion model in Paris while missing home and longing for the love of her best friend.
On a stormy night, Trapito the scarecrow saves Salapin the sparrow's life. Salapin is very grateful and makes Trapito believe that he can move from his place. Together they go to the patriarch of birds who ascertains that Trapito has no fantasy. Therefore Salapin will be his fantasy. After that, they meet Largirucho, a clumsy farmer. They become friends and go to the city to sell cheese. From the money they're going to eat in a restaurant. When Largirucho discovers his money is stolen and can't pay, the cook keeps his pig. He must pay within 7 days or the cook will slaughter the pig. Their adventures start when they're finding a job.
The Aventuras of Hijitus are finally available on DVD. I have seen two packs containing 5 DVDs each, with each DVD containing on average 6 episodes. For all those grown ups, like myself, it is a joy revisiting all favourites from our own childhood. On each episode we encounter Hijitus, Pichichus, professor Neurus, Pucho, Serrucho, Larguirucho, Oaky and his father Gold Silver as well as sporadically appearances from Cachabacha with her assistant Pajarraco, Boxitracio and the Comisario (who is my favourite of all times, particularly with his own distinctive accent from the region of Corrientes!). Manuel Garcia Ferre is a master and innovative creator unique on this genre. He has created a cavalcade of memorable characters each one with his own distinctive idiosyncrasy. Children and grown ups alike will love and enjoy watching the adventures and misadventures of Hijitus (an orphaned boy who represents good and is always ready to put things to right when he converts himself into Super Hijitus!). The voices of many of the characters were done by the 'Master' of this type of work: Pelusa Suero, a very talented and multifaceted artist who gave life to the series with his distinctive voice. The story is set in the ideal town of 'Trulala' which has many similarities to Buenos Aires (in some episodes for example you can see the Obelisco and the Avenida 9 Julio). Each character has his own catching phrase like Oaky's 'Tiro, Lio, Cosa Golda' o Larguirucho's 'Bla Mas Fuerte Que No Te Escucho' or Hijitus' with 'Ojala, Ojalita, Ojalata, Chuculita, Chuculata'. One can spend ages analysing each episode, describing each situation and the behaviour of each of his inhabitants, but overall the formula is always more or less the same, the bad represented by greedy professor Neurus (and sometimes the witch Cachabacha) against the good represented by Hijitus and the Comisario (who represents the public order). The series are a joy to watch again and again and represent one of the highest and best forms of comic and cartoon strip in Argentina. These characters have already passed onto the field of popular culture and there are multitude of merchandise representing all the characters from the series very much sought after by collectors.
Anteojito and Antifaz live in an apartment house in Villa Trompeta, a fantasy city with funny animals, dancing vegetables, and Uncle Antifaz’s enemy, Cachavacha the witch, living with Pajarraco her owl, in the apartment right under his. Uncle Antifaz tries to invent an invisibility formula with Anteojito’s help, and Cachavacha tries to steal it.
The witch Cachavacha is envious of the voice of Soledad, who is loved by all children. Cachavacha will do anything to prevent Soledad from continuing to sing, so she asks the help of the evil Professor Neurus and his longtime lackeys Pucho and Serrucho. But Soledad is not alone in this fight, counting on the support of her friend, Larguirucho.
Pantriste is a melancholic and sensitive boy who has a gift for music. His father wants his son to be a woodcutter like him. Together with Mignon and Tambourine, Beanpole and the woodcutters, they face the spells of Neurus and Cachavacha.
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Under the watch of his unkind realtives, lonely Bosse's luck is changed when he is sent to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.
The Oggly family arrive at the municipal rubbish dump of Smelliville and must look for a new home, but they never feel really welcome anywhere. They stink and are for most humans just a tad too oggly. When Firebottom, the family dragon, crash-lands on the run-down rubbish tip of the small town of Smelliville, the Ogglies at once feel at home. And it's here they want to stay.
A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.