Bonus Episode : My dad the bounty hunter (anime- series)

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When a bounty hunter's two kids accidentally hitch a ride into outer space and crash his latest mission, they discover that their dad's job is anything but boring; dodging aliens and laser fights, this family's bonding time goes to the extreme.
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The Gist: Gabriela’s (Ana Serradilla) expression says it all: She’s deeply sad and outrageously pissed. Her father passed away after a cancer battle and her brother is missing the funeral. The ceremony is over and friends and family gather graveside as she says a few words about her dear dad and, finally, Fernando (Mauricio Ochmann) arrives – and that’s when the pissed part of her takes over the sad part. She stops mid-eulogy to attack Fernando, and the scuffle finds them slapping and shoving each other, stumbling and falling over tombstones. Uh huh. Mind you, these people are adults. Not just barely adults, like 19 years old, but 40-something adults who should know better than to act like dopes at their father’s service, but hey, these are Movie People, so who expects them to act rationally? I mean, can’t they just passive-aggressively simmer and let their true feelings curdle in their gut like mature people in real life would do?
Cutesy scenes from little Gabo and Fer’s childhood play during the opening credits. It seems they were once inseparable, and they were especially tight after their mother died. They were still schoolchildren when that happened. But that all changed when Fernando took a swanky job with a bank in Singapore and apparently barely looked back. Bitterness settled in for reasons that remain vague, but I think it has something to do with Gabriela feeling stuck at home, working in their father’s auto shop and taking care of him when he fell ill, while Fernando did his own thing and presumably never ever visited. I don’t know if “estranged” is the right word, but their relationship seems to fall on the lower end of the estrangement spectrum. And here they are, in their late father’s home, the house they grew up in, surrounded by all his stuff, and their old stuff. Gabriela gives Fernando the silent treatment. She hits the tequila. After a bit, so does he. Then he dusts off the good ol’ ping pong table and they have a go. The wall between them crumbles. Is there still some lingering resentment? Of course! But at least they’re talking now. And drunk. Quite drunk.
It’s in such moments that Movie People do impulsive things. They walk to their pop’s auto garage and there in the back are the motorcycles they had as kids. They’re vintage now, these bikes. And they remember how they once vowed to ride those bikes from here in San Miguel de Allende all the way to Acapulco. They even drew a map and made rules – e.g., they have to take turns doing whatever the other wants to do, the first to get there has to pee in the ocean, etc. – and everything. So it’s the middle of the night and they’re still drunk and they hop on the motorcycles and go, and they don’t bother to pack a toothbrush or a phone charger or anything. There will be detours on the way, at a wine-and-cheese festival so they can wedge bottle caps in their shoes – bottle caps? At a WINE festival? Just go with it, people! – so they can do their old tap-dance routine; at a hippie gathering so they can accidentally take way too many drugs; in Mexico City so old regrets can be addressed, you know, stuff like that. Will the trip yield a well-balanced blend of wacky adventures and soul-searching poignancy? Is the sky blue? Does a chicken like to peck? Does tequila make you stupider?

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