Today’s journey Around the World with Netflix takes us to Peru, land of the Incas, the Plains of Nazca and these doggoned “¡Asu Mare!” comedies by comic, writer, actor and now director Carlos Alcántara.

The films began ten years ago with a comical autobiography of how Alcántara became the most famous funnyman in Peru. But over four films, “¡Asu Mare!” — that’s a Peruvian exclamation of surprise — has evolved into accounts of the misadventures of four hapless “friends” who appeared in some of those films.

“¡Asu Mare! Los amigos” has Alcántara stepping behind the camera for the first time for a comic tale of eviction, cuisine, politics and dirty money as those four friends — inept businessman Poroto (Emilram Cossío), divorced musican Jaime Culicich (Andrés Salas), street-vendor/clothier Chato (Miguel Vergara) and perpetual hothead Lechuga (Franco Cabrera) — try to start a restaurant in a long-abandoned urban villa.

Long review short, it’s not very good, although the players are game and the direction competent, despite having no flair for turning a laugh-starved script into something funny.

A prologue shows us the guys as tweens frightened after running into Poroto’s uncle’s long-abandoned McMansion as they flee the police, who aren’t keen on their pranks.

Decades later, when Poroto’s latest hair-growing gadget goes bust, when Chato’s motortrike clothing store — complete with shower curtain “changing room — is impounded (he’s been living in it, on the streets), when Culi’s ex-wife takes his kid to Miami and Lechuga is fired for getting into a tussle with a rich racist who calls him “Sambo” on the job — this house could be their salvation.

Throw a barbecue to finance fixing it up, fix it up to open a restaurant.

The comedy comes from a little slapstick, some energetic but not that creative pratfalls, a chase, and limp jokes — in Spanish with English subtitles — some of them self-referential.

“Cachín (Alcántara’s character in some of the earlier films) said this will be the last ‘¡Asu Mare!’ movie! He’s full of crap!”

They freely acknowledge they’re stealing from themselves, if not in plots, then in situations.

“You’re acting like Cachín in the second movie!”

Character names can be Spanish jokes (Lechuga means “lettuce”) or Peruvian slang (“Culi” means “butt”). Not exactly hilarious.

Some of the pratfalls almost find a laugh, but any time the cast and the filmmakers lead the extras in a closing credits sing-along and you’re not Gurinder Chadha, we can tell you’re out of ideas.

Rating: TV-14, profanity, a drug abuse scene, nudity in silhouette

Cast: Franco Cabrera, Andrés Salas, Emilram Cossío, Miguel Vergara, Ximena Palomino, Fiorella Luna and Sandro Calderon.

Credits: Directed by Carlos Alcántara, scripted by Rasec Barrigan, Marco Rubina and Renato Fernandez. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:52