Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de Aventura (1968)

Roberto Carlos is a pop singer who is starring in a movie; he is chased by a gang led by a woman who has a plan to use a computer to write songs for him and other famous singers. But our hero is a composer too, and does not want to be replaced by a machine. Meanwhile, the actor who plays the villain in the film R.C. is doing is a real villain who wants to kill him. R.C. gets to drive a fast car and a helicopter, and even ride a rocket to space.

This exercise in metacinema follows the vogue of madcap films starring pop stars in the 1960s; it is possibly out of sheer frankness that at the very start, through the voice of its protagonist, it confesses: "I am terrible". So, viewers cannot claim they weren't warned. Anyway, A Hard Day's Night it ain't, though many a spectator will want to cry for Help! while watching it. Speed driving is a recurring motif in the songs' lyrics.

Rating: 12