At some point, you must have realized you’re selling cockfighting to children, yes? Proving that anything is more palatable with fluffy animation, Un gallo con muchos huevos (Roughly: “The Brave Little Rooster,” although the screen translation read “Little Rooster’s Big Adventure.” That’s being generous. The literal translation is “A rooster with many eggs”) presented a scrawny rooster-in-training, Toto (voice of Bruno Bichir), as an undersized cock with big dreams of going beak-to-beak with champion chanticleers.
These fights are presented as anthropomorphized fowl wearing boxing gloves, but one can’t help noticing, “gee … dirt ring, humans in the stands standing and cheering, waving money, betting, this IS cockfighting. All that’s missing is the blood.” Hey, hombres, why stop there? Long as you’re selling cockfighting as legitimate entertainment and the bringer 
of dreams, what’s next on the anthro-animation spectrum? Juanita, the lovable crack pipe? Carlos the ebola strain, that plucky bringer of mass genocide? Ok, yes, I exaggerate, and perhaps unfairly. But I can’t emphasize enough: Un gallo con muchos huevos is a movie about cockfighting aimed at children.
Look, I’m sorry for your sake that Megamind isn’t “El Megamind” or that Pixar Studios isn’t located in Oaxaca, but, señores, nothing legitimizes selling cockfighting to children.
OK, I’m done ranting. Toto is a lousy hero – flaky, cowardly, not especially intelligent or resourceful, but he is into fisticuffs. “Wingticuffs?” As he and the farmboy listen to Friday Night Fights at the Pollodome, the camera finds the interior of the house and an unpaid bill for a lot of dinero. ¿Entiendes? The next scene shows the fight itself where the hulking big-ass rooster pummels a smaller opponent and his owner immediately collects the deed to a farm as the prize. [Deadpan]Oh, I cannot see where this is going at all.[/Deadpan]
Taking it upon themselves to save the day, the farm fowl, some unhatched-but-anthropomorphized eggs and a talking piece of bacon borrow the motorbike and hit the road. The non-human ring entrance is off to the left and there, the local Don (another egg) insists that to earn the money
for the farm, Toto must fight the big-ass rooster we just saw beating the feathers off a Toto-sized opponent. Well, that didn’t take long. Oh, and he’s got two weeks to do it, which is not enough time to go from bantam :rimshot: to heavyweight.
The key for novice Toto to defeating the bigger, stronger, more skilled opponent? A montage, perhaps? He better get good in hurry, right? Wrong. Toto must ignore training on how to fight and instead learn duck skills (i.e. flying and swimming). Again, if you have children in mind when you make … a cartoon movie, you might actually consider the lessons they learn here: when you’ve got a daunting task in front of you, focus not on the skills you might be able to learn and master, but instead on the skills you’ll never have. “Got a big test today, niño? Instead of studying, why don’t you try developing ESP?”
Un gallo con muchos huevos was cute when not giving horrible life messages; I’ll give it that much. I didn’t think much of the hero and the lessons were shockingly bad, but hey, cute. Bueno, mis amigos.
♪Goodbye, yo, gotta save our farm me oh my oh
Pienso que it soon belongs to some caballo
All I have to do is learn to fight como un pato
Forget that, gimme tequila to get blotto
Come el sol I’ll be beaten to a pile-o
Spend the rest of my days ground in a silo
Thinking this cartoon is weak, oh sigh oh
Son of a gun we’ll have no fun con un gallo♫
Not Rated, 98 Minutes
D: Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva-Palacio Alatriste
W: Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva-Palacio Alatriste
Genre: Animated horror disguised as family fun
Type of person most likely to enjoy this film: Desperate Hispanics
Type of person least likely to enjoy this film: PETA
♪ Parody inspired by “Jambalaya (On The Bayou)”
