Carlo and Gabriella are in love. Their mothers approve, but their fathers, Totò and Aldo Fabrizi, fight it out in a series of exhilarating sketches. Meanwhile, the modern youths don't get involved at all. "Ettore Scola is one of the uncredited screenwriters on this story which has neither head nor tail about obstinate fathers who refuse to let their children get married. The film is above all a joyful pretext for an encounter on the subject of their children between the fat Roman and the thin Neapolitan. Fabrizi has said how hard it was to work with Totò because they kept cracking up and could rarely finish a shot as the director had planned." (René Marx)