Adventures of Loco and Mambo
Mambo (Owoh)and Loco (Mac-Anthony) are two ill-oriented ambitious friends who willdo anything, except work, to make money. Their desperation got evenhotter when a friend of Mambo’s promised to take them to America if theycould raise a certain amount within a month. Eager to travel abroad,the two not so smart and naive friends attempt various ways to con theirway to their target. They involved Yogo, a girl whose love they’d bothtried to win unsuccessfully, to join in their con rackets because shewas desperate to leave her stepmother who had been consistentlypressuring her to get married.
All through the movie, the duo,with Yogo in tow, provided viewers with great humour. Theirludicrousness was actually fun to watch. In an instance, while Loco wastrying to woo Yogo, he went to her house and met her reading a magazine;the following conversation ensued:
Loco: You dey read magazine?
Yogo:No, I dey baf!
In its time
A re-watch of this moviereveals that the slapstick remains irresistible and each characterappears well suited for his/her role. The young barber who probably washaving his movie debut at the time also fit well into the comedy. Afterrendering a crazy, patchy haircut he called ‘Fuel Scarcity’, he escapesgetting lynched by the unfortunate customer whose hair he justrubbished, ridiculously saying afterwards, “If I had known, I for barbam Up Nepa!” Crazy isn’t it?
Even though Yogo Pam Pam cannot besaid to be the duo’s best movie ever, it sure stood as one of the bestin its time.
