Com 50 and 007 is the official sequel to Com 50 (formerly, it was the sequel to Com 50: Peril in Iran). It introduced the canon immigrant 007 into the world of Com 50 and featured the villain Shriff Aha for the first and only time.
Plot Summary[]
During the opening titles, a recap reveals that Com 50 has uncovered the inner-workings of a terrorist organization known as Cal Pada. Their leader, Shriff Aha, vows to destroy the world unless their demands are met.
The film opens with Com 50 getting a mission brief from his commander, who is informing him that Cal Pada has set up a headquarters in the French Alps. Com 50 accepts his mission and takes a fighter jet to France. Near the base, an enemy fighter jet shoots Com 50's jet out of the air, though Com 50 manages to parachute down to the ground, landing at the Newland Hotel.
Inside the hotel, he spends the night, but almost gets killed by the hotel's clerk, who is a Cal Pada assassin in disguise. After killing the assassin, Com 50 teleports away to 007, whom he rudely encounters. Com 50 insists that they need to work together, but 007 wants to finish the job alone. After some lamenting, 007 lets Com 50 tag along, as long as he follows 007's orders. Com 50 agrees.
Inside the base, Com 50 is assigned to hack a missile silo while 007 heads out the take out Shriff Aha. However, henchman Boris catches 007 and takes him to the interrogation room. Despite Shriff Aha's beatings, 007 does not talk. Com 50, concerned about 007, heads off after him. He eventually frees 007 and they sneak away.
Elsewhere in the base, Shriff Aha and Boris ambush Com 50 and 007, chasing them away towards a lab. Inside the lab, Com 50 devises a plan: make some of Cal Pada's nuclear weapons and use them to blow up the base. After making the bomb, they stow it away in the hacked computer, but are attacked by a ninja. The ninja is easily killed and they rush off.
At the entrance to the base, they are stopped by Shriff Aha and Boris, whom they fight. They take down the villains, but don't have enough time to escape the base. Com 50 saves 007 and himself by teleporting them back to CIA headquarters. 007 congratulations Com 50 on a job well done.
Production History[]
Just like the previous two Com 50 movies, this film was made on the fly with only a vague idea of where to go. However, a few scenes were planned prior to filming, such as the fighter jet sequence and the presence of Shriff Aha. This is supported by the existence of an early script, where most of the film's ideas originated from. This script, however, was never used in the actual production phase.
Unusually, the film was originally going to feature a character named O-T 3 (spelled OT.3 in the early script), a rookie agent who would accompany both of the spies. However, when the story was revised, this character was cut out and pushed back to the third film in the trilogy (before being cut out altogether). Other early ideas included a teleporting fighter jet (which evolved into the teleporter remote in the final film), Iraqis as the villains (this later turned into Cal Pada), and a teacher holding a lecture on nuclear weapons.
Unlike the other two films, this film was shot over multiple days, as the hotel scenes, the airplane sequence, and the scenes with 007 were all filmed at vastly different times. Most of the story elements, however, were just based from Cal Pada from the previous films. After some time editing the footage, this film was released on February 8, 2005 as part of the Com 50 Collection DVD set.
On July 20, 2012, as part of the "From the Vaults" collection, this film was re-released as an entirely new cut that geared the style towards Com 50 and Com 50-3: Raid on Central Island. It features an original soundtrack, enhanced special effects, new sound effects, and more. While this film was removed from the internet in 2017, it was later announced that this film would be re-released again as a part of the Twenty Years Young celebration. While the film is a simple cleaning-up of the already-existing re-edit, this new version was released on February 8, 2024.
Audience Reaction[]
In its original release, it was well-received by those that had been in the film. However, in its 2012 re-release, the film got almost no attention.
Mistakes[]
- Plot Hole: If Com 50 has a teleport remote that can send him anywhere in the world, why does he need to take a fighter jet to get to the Cal Pada base? Some could argue that the teleport remote has a limited range, but he uses it at the end of the film to get back to headquarters, trumping that logic.
- Continuity Error: When Com 50 is inside the fighter plane, he is wearing a helmet. However, when he lands on the ground and pulls off his parachute, the helmet is gone.
Characters[]
- Com 50 (Andrew Bermudez)
- Commander (Daniel Bermudez)
- Hotel Clerk/Assassin (Daniel Bermudez)
- Chaveux Bleus (Teresa Bermudez)
- Piano Player (Al Bermudez)
- Hotel Guest (Curt Freeman)
- 007 (Luke Stabe)
- Boris (John Stabe)
- Shriff Aha (Daniel Bermudez)
- Cal Pada Guard (Daniel Bermudez)
- Cal Pada Ninja (Nathan Stabe)
- O-T 3 (Cut From Film)
Locations[]
- CIA Headquarters
- Newland Hotel
- Cal Pada Mountain Headquarters
Credits[]
- Andrew Bermudez - Director; Producer; Actor; Editor; Composer; Cameraman
- Daniel Bermudez - Assistant Director; Actor; Cameraman
- Teresa Bermudez - Actor
- Al Bermudez - Actor
- Curt Freeman - Actor
- Luke Stabe - Actor
- John Stabe - Actor
- Nathan Stabe - Actor
Awards[]
- Best Re-Release (The Second Mustache Maniacs Film Co. Fan Choice Awards; 2014)
Tropes[]
Com 50 and 007 contains examples of the following tropes.
- All There in the Manual: There are a few things not explained here, but are elaborated upon elsewhere. For example, the weapon Com 50 constructs is regarded as "Nuclear Dynamite" in production materials, but is not named in the film. The same goes for the French singer, whose name is actually Chaveux Bleus.
- Artistic License - Nuclear Physics: Both played straight and averted. Com 50 uses a Cal Pada instruction manual to construct nuclear dynamite. There are two problems here. First, critical mass for nuclear weapons means that a device called nuclear dynamite just wouldn't be powerful enough to actually create a massive explosion and would be too small to contain the needed elements. Second, notwithstanding ambient radiation from a weapon that small, trying to detonate nuclear dynamite would actually cause a simple leakage of radiation, not the "giant explosion" seen in the film. All of this, however, proves to be for naught when the official canon averted this trope: it says that the precise conditions for the nuclear dynamite were not met and therefore disabled the weapon, which is what would have happened in real life. So where DID that explosion come from? See the "Delayed Explosion" entry for the answer.
- Bilingual Bonus: She's not named in the film proper, but the blue-haired singer at the Newland Hotel is named Chaveux Bleus. Chaveux Bleus is French for "Blue Hair."
- Canon Immigrant: 007 is this, though he canonically isn't THE 007, just someone who happens to have the same name.
- Casting Gag: Luke Stabe plays 007 here because he played that part in several 007 films produced by his cousins' own amateur film companies, A&W Film Co. and Stabe Inc.
- Continuity Nod: Shriff Aha, who was only mentioned in the first (now non-canon) film, appears as the main villain here.
- Delayed Explosion: The explosion that blows up the base doesn't happen when it is supposed to. Canonically, there are two reasons for this. First, the explosives that Com 50 were faulty, meaning that they never went off. Second, the actual explosion was caused by the bomber seen in Air Strike, which is depicted in that film.
- Delicious Distraction: Com 50 distracts the guard near 007 by telling him that there's free cake in the cafeteria.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: It takes everything that Com 50 overcomes for 007 to finally respect him as a partner at the end of the film.
- Elite Mooks: Boris has goggles, a higher rank, and an actual personality, but is otherwise similar to the other Cal Pada guards.
- Evil Laugh: Oh, but of course! Shriff Aha's evil laugh is a bona fide example, enough to influence the very image of Mustache Maniacs Film Co.!
- Faceless Goons: The infamous Cal Pada guards return in this film, though they appear in far fewer numbers.
- Gratuitous Ninja: One appears briefly to smack Com 50 with a sword before being quickly gunned down.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Both Shriff Aha and Boris do this to 007 when he is captured.
- The Infiltration: What Com 50 and 007 do to enter the Cal Pada headquarters.
- Mook Mobile: The fighter planes that Com 50 goes up against, one of which actually succeeds in hitting Com 50's plane.
- Old-School Dogfight: On his way to the Cal Pada headquarters, Com 50 engages several fighters in his own fighter jet.
- Overt Operative: From their advanced gadgets to the sunglasses that 007 wears, the outfits that Com 50 and 007 wear scream "I'm a spy."
- Power Source: Cal Pada has nuclear power everywhere, from their weapons to their power stations. Even the explosives that Com 50 makes are described in the official canon as "nuclear dynamite."
- The Spymaster: Com 50's commander, who assigns him his mission.
- Supervillain Lair: The Cal Pada Mountain Base, of course!
- Take Our Word for It: When Shriff Aha and Boris are interrogating 007, it's never mentioned what they want out of 007, just that they want something. Canonically, since Cal Pada is directly tied to the Illuminati, what they want to know is whether there are any technological threats to their survival. They also want to know if anyone infiltrated their base with 007.
- Teleportation: Com 50's iconic teleportation remote was introduced in this film, which Com 50 uses twice.
- Wig, Dress, Accent: The Newland Hotel's singer covers the wig and dress aspects of this trope. Her singing voice doesn't have much of an accent, though.
Trivia[]
- Curt Freeman appeared in this film because he won Mustache Maniacs Film Co.'s Super Spy Sweepstakes.
- Boris was not initially going to be in the film; John Stabe added the character to create another henchman character.
- This is the first Mustache Maniacs Film Co. movie to feature an original soundtrack.
- Luke Stabe plays 007 in this film because he had played the character in some films by A&W Film Co. and Stabe Inc.
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