Kummeli V

After several years of TV and a couple of movies the Kummeli gang releases this gem. The cultural clash of rich people from the big city and poor hillbillies on the countryside couldn't be bigger and funny moments are ensured. Some characters are funny in every scene ( every member of the rock band Cobra ) and you have usually no idea of where a story or "sketch" will end up. Some scenes drag out a little to long and the whole movie lack speed in the middle. I watched this with a friend that speak Finnish fluently and some jokes get lost in translation. It is cheesy, vulgar, crude and quite funny - much better than most movies from Hollywood that are called comedy nowadays at least. As with the early Adam Sandler movies, this is satire that leaves you with a warm feeling in the end.

This was mostly a hilarious movie. It has a frame story of the making of a fictional fantasy film "Excalibur 4". This invention brings a lot of crazy costumes and special effects to the screen, not usually seen in Kummeli. In between the fantasy thing there are shorter stories that blend together nicely with some connecting characters. I enjoyed the crazy rocker played by Heikki Silvennoinen, the middle-aged video nerds who plan a mission to rob a store, and the church organ technician who seduces every woman he sees (Silvennoinen again). Overall the movie was quite entertaining up until the scene where the "Excalibur 4" is shown to the business associates. That felt like a conclusion, and the last segment where the moviemakers go bear hunting just felt unnecessary and boring and the movie seemed way too long, even if it wasn't much over an hour and a half. Too bad the movie that was almost solid lost its momentum during the last 15 minutes. However, even if it's not a masterpiece, it's pretty good if you like Kummeli. The guys surely had tons of fun making this crazy spectacle.