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This is a terrible movie with a stupid plot and two-dimensional characters: all the women are whores, all the men are in the mafia, the police are corrupt, and an American saves the day. Strange that a film made by Hungarians is filled with such self-loathing for the country. Given the premise of a film about DJ culture, the music is actually pretty bad. Hungary has some fantastic DJs whose work is occasionally used by local filmmakers, but the Lovy brothers obviously don't know any of them.

The Hungarian actors are good, but its pretty clear their potential is underused. Also, was there no one around to help them with their English? Some lines are so mangled that they're unintelligible. Not fun bad, jut plain bad.

I gotta say that I really loved this movie. For one thing, the music is amazing. The producers know how to integrate music into a movie, that's for sure. The characters were hysterical, and the lead was way cute. Each character seemd to have a complete beginning, middle and end, which is rare in movies. I liked the grandmother/father subplot, because it reminded me of my own family. I guess I related to the movie. The storyline is solid and the ending is great. Worth the watch!

Being a girl, I thought I would be insulted by the "porn" subplot, but not at all. Me and my fem friends thought that the porno characters and storyline were handled with care and thoughtfulness. We even cried at the sappy parts!

Kudos to the producers for making this fun, touching, witty, intelligent film that touches on expat life in Budapest, Hungary. I watched it with my teenage kids (who loved it) whom, I suspect, is the real target audience. Lot's of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll (or whatever they call it these days).

Still, I was surprised and pleased that the movie deals with themes interesting to those of us pushing 50. The story deals, in part, with the healing of old, still-tender wounds between a son who haven't spoke to one another in over 20 years. A real treat for me was the performance of the mother whose character so convincingly made me think of my own grandmother, I could swear she was the basis of the character.

On the negative, the camera moved a bit much for me, but then I'm an old fogy.

I recommend it highly!

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself stuck in a foreign country with no money and four days to scrape together the funds for a plane ticket back home, get caught up in adventures with a beautiful fetish model, a slimy photographer, a drug-dealing porno producer and a cab-driving hustler, with awesome music to boot, then this film is for you.

It was interesting watching how the filmmakers dealt with the two languages, Hungarian and English. It was handled very naturally. Since Mitch doesn't speak Hungarian, the Hungarian characters spoke broken english with him. Hungarians spoke Hungarian to other Magyars, and Americans spoke English to other Americans.

I was lucky enough to catch this flick in Budapest. It's playing city-wide. Steven and Robert Lovy, credited as "the Lovy Brothers," couldn't have had millions of dollars to produce this gem, but they certainly made up for that by creating a perky, emotional film with a handsome and kinetic visual style. It's now definitely one of my favorite movies. A very cool mix of drama, comedy and super fresh music all set in the sexy locale of night-life Budapest.

I'd say it's a cross between Scorsese's "After Hours," "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and a music video set to a Hungarian folk music/drum and bass mix. I know it sounds unusual, but so is this movie.

Definitely worth checking out when it gets to the States. I even bought the soundtrack.

Cheers,

baxter100