Mirciulica

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.

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.

It was nice, but I expected more humor. His youtube videos are much better made. The actors were also a bit tense...as if they were for the first time in front of the cameras.

The most authentic and relaxed character was the boss. In the scene with Aurel Tamas, he exaggerated a bit and moved in an agitated mess... he should have slowed down a bit because it is assumed that he was a bit drunk.

The Gramdma offered authentic comedy like on youtube videos and she had great scenes.

But overall it was acceptable. I hope that the next film with the Wedding will be more professional and more natural.

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.

Being native speakers, we enjoy watching Romanian films on a weekend with the extended family, and we've seen some wonky stuff over time, but this really took the biscuit.

Very thin plot, almost nonexistent, same as the production value, no acting skills to be found here, apart from the boss, and that's not saying a lot.

Nothing happens and does so very, very slowly. 0 out of 10, do not recommend.

Currently it's sitting at no. 1 on Netflix, probably from all the people clicking out of curiosity , but maybe that should say something about Netflix as well - after all, they paid money for this slow dumpster fire.