Opopomoz

Opopomoz is a 2003 ItalianFrenchSpanish animation film directed by Enzo DAl. It tells an unusual and curious Christmas story, set in a modernday Naples, during the Christmas season.

The movie starts in Hell where Satan plans to destroy Christmas by stopping Jesuss birth, and he decide to send three of his minions in Naples from the barrel of Mount Vesuvius since it was the Cribs capital. The three devils choose a little kid called Rocco, which is unhappy and jealous for the incoming birth of his little brother Francesco, and hes always angry with his mother and father. After a lot of tempting, the devils manage to make Rocco say the magic word Opopomoz and go into the cribs world, where hes determined to stop Mary and Joseph from coming in Betlem. But the three devils cause a lot of problems and never manage to accomplish the mission, so Rocco runs away. Meanwhile, his little ItaloAmerican cousin Sara discovers what happened thanks to Roccos cat and runs after him into the Cribs world, but doesnt manage to find and shes found by a young Saint Peter and his family. Rocco finally finds Sara who finally convinces him, with the help of an Angel, that he was wrong, so they send away the three devils. Satans furious with them and decides to kill Mary by hypnotizing Rocco and devouring Saras soul, but his spell fails after the boy looked at Marys aureole and the three devils, who are tired of getting bossed and feel sorry for the little girl, wake her and encourage her to sing a song her grandmother taught her which couls send away the devil, and so Satan is sucked back in Hell forever. Finally Jesus is born and Roccos mother gives birth to Francesco right on Christmass night and the three little devils are turned into an ox and two donkeys to watch over little Jesus.

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