I'm for the Hippopotamus

I'm for the Hippopotamus (Io sto con gli ippopotami, 1979) is an Italian action-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Italo Zingarelli directs the unmistakable team of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

Africa, the 1950s. Tom runs a cheerful con: he sells tourists big-game safaris but loads their rifles with blanks, so the animals stay safe and the clients go home thrilled. His routine falls apart when cousin Slim shows up — a lazy schemer who also happens to be a fierce nature lover. The real trouble is Jack Ormond, a trafficker getting rich off captured wildlife. Talk turns to fists fast. The brawls are pure Hill-and-Spencer: loud, slapstick, choreographed for laughs rather than damage.

The two stars made dozens of films together, and this sits comfortably in their signature run of grinning trickster plus brawny straight man clobbering bad guys to a peppy soundtrack. It's for anyone who enjoys old-school Italian buddy capers with zero pretension and a big heart. Stream I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979) online on iFILM.