| I'm for the Hippopotamus | |
| Director: | Italo Zingarelli |
| Producer: | Vincent G. Cox Roberto Palaggi |
| Starring: | Terence Hill Bud Spencer Joe Bugner |
| Music: | Walter Rizzati |
| Cinematography: | Aiace Parolin |
| Editing: | Claudio M. Cutry |
| Runtime: | 104 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
I'm for the Hippopotamus (Italian: '''Io sto con gli ippopotami''') is a 1979 Italian adventure comedy film directed by Italo Zingarelli and starring the film duo of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.[1]
The film focuses on the rivalry between two cousins, with one of them intentionally undermining the other's safari expeditions. The cousins eventually have to team up against a common foe.
Two cousins engage in a semi-friendly rivalry at the beginning of the film. Hill's character occasionally ruins the other's hunting safaris. It turns out that Spencer's character is none too honest, either, since he gives his tourists rifles loaded with blanks so they can't hurt each other or the animals. The two have to team up to stop a villain, with plenty of comedy, eating, and mild violence.
As with many other Spencer & Hill films, its soundtrack and theme song "Grau Grau Grau" (both composed and performed by Walter Rizzati, with Spencer himself providing lead vocals on the song) became very popular in Italy at the time of the film's release, and are still popular among the duo's international fan base.