Mirciulica

Unlike the Team Building competitor, this film has a small script and a logic that is supposed to be funny.

The problem comes from a rather thin script, as if written from copying some of Mircea Bravo's sketches. A 2-3 minute talcum powder video is funny, but 20 such scenes, one after another, not so much.

The characters have personality and would have deserved a better script and some real actors.

Instead, the proverbial slowness of the Transylvanian is the main characteristic of the film - the action advances slowly, the scenes unfold slowly, the logic is step-by-step and without jumps. That is funny itself.

I think the essence of the movie plot is related to the hard times Romania was offering to its youngsters 15 years ago or more. Lots of places where mediocrity prevailed or meritocracy was something to dream of. As a youngster, you could look weird because you were thinking healthy. Or you could get appreciated but kept somewhere aside as a nice guy, not being able to make an impact and change things. Now we are living in other times. For people not living those times I imagine this movie makes less sense.

Now, how good was the movie in expressing artistically those times or how funny, that's a different story.

I think it looked as made by begineers. Characters could have been better shaped, better played, jokes could have been better, the image overall could have been better. Even if made by, let's say begineers, the movie could have been better by allocating more time to make it.

However, I am happy that Mircea (Bravo) made the movie, going past the youtube sketches and I hope they will get better and better. That's the bottom line.

Loved the clever jokes and puns. It has great characters that work great together.

It also has some important topics : relationship with parents, the conflict between generations, old principles vs new principles, not so good vs good, innocence vs corruptions.

I felt that the whole situations was resolved a little bit too quickly and fortunate. Nonetheless Bunica is the real superhero of the movie. I was hoping to see more of her in the movie and explore a little more the connection with her nephew.

Overall good direction and it has a positive ending.

A great first movie from Mircea and the gang.

I think that all Romanians should see this movie. I don't want to give any spoilers, but I was truly impressed with the direction of the movie. Both adults and children will laugh a lot and enjoy it.

It is not a perfect movie, it has it's hiccups but there are no major issues. The acting is good, the characters are lovely and overall the storyline is believable. The main character has to face the real life and needs to make some tough decisions. The length of the movie is just right, I didn't even realise how the time passed.

It could've been just another cheap comedy but it was much more than that, good job :)

Many people say bad things about this kind of material but they forget there's ''Entertainment material'' and ''Artistic Cinema'' in the World. This film made money because the creator has a large following on social media in Romania. I don't think it was intended to impress artistically. You don't see superhero movies winning Oscars. The same concept applies here with Mirciulica. And the same concept applied to ''Miami Bici'' and ''Teambuilding'' movies in Romania. So it is futile to comment on these kinds of material like it was supposed to be real Cinema. Real Cinema costs money and it is made by studied and seasoned artists.