A wandering family of peasants dress in cangaceiro clothes (cangaceiros were rural bandits of Northeastern Brazil in the 19th and early 20th century) and are mistaken for bandits. They join a gang of said outlaws, and after a while decide to turn them in to the police.
Poor comedy, cashing in on the Brazilian fad of cangaceiro movies which started with O Cangaceiro. People call it a parody of those movies, but it fits that category only in a very loose way. The film may be roughly divided into two parts. The first part is where cangaceiros feature more prominently; that is when the central comedian has an ampler room to display his histrionic abilities. The second part is set at a small village after the main character goes missing and is thought dead. I could not find much of interest in either part of the movie. The script is borderline moronic and the humor is mostly infantile. As a curiosity, the actress who plays the chief cangaceiro's wife is three days younger than the actor who plays her son, a reluctant cangaceiro who wants to go straight and marry the title character's daughter.
Rating: 19
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