Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa

I watched this movie with my Dad and a friends of our family. To my surprise I found myself laughing out loud multiple times. This is one of those movies were it is unintentionally funny. For instance, there is one scene were a guy is peeing and then a machine flies over him taking his pee with it. I found the scene funny because it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

The Positives of this movie: 1. The Cel-Animation is very well done with regard to the backgrounds and certain characters. I will admit certain characters have considerably less detail than others.

2. The Movie made me laugh out loud multiple times

3. The story has a good overall message

The Drawback of this movie: 1. The story is all over the place. In other words, it starts with a certain main character then it completely disregards the main character for half an hour to focus on a different character.

2. The movie has a pacing issue where I felt multiple scenes were either too long or too short. One example that comes to mind is the ending to this movie. It felt very rushed, I wished it was a couple minutes longer.

3. This movie is not for little kids. I enjoyed the movie but I found myself surprised that this is for little kids. There is smoking, drinking, nudity(granted it is just a picture in the background of one scene), a guy peeing, and self harm.

Ah, well, it's sorry to say that I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected. The animation and graphic arts are wonderful and the backgrounds are breathtaking, but the story.... I mean why they even mention Solan in the title? He disappears after the half of the film and basically a side kick than the main character.

I don't know Aukust world well, and I was very disappointed that they didn't even try to explain the characters for those new to them. I would say it is rather strange attitude in a production that they didn't think of other than Norwegian audience who knows every single of Aukust work. I mean what is so funny about a widow chasing a boy with a fox tail? I'm sure if I read the book with all written humor, I would find it funny, but the bare fact of storyline and confusing disappearences of some characters doesn't make sense to me at all.

Small country like Norway should think big, specially in animation which can easily attract foreign children's film market. I loved Flåklypa Grand Prix and I don't think the new production will not be as successful in the international market as Grand Prix. Why they satisfied with a small success in Norway while they could do the same in the world? It's a mystery.

"Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa" is the most expensive Norwegian movie ever made, and is Norway`s first attempt on creating a real cartoon-movie to rival Disney. The movie is in many ways the sequel to "Flåklypa Grand Prix" because it has got many of the same characters, but this movie is nowhere near as good as that old classic. This movie has got many nice, some impressive and some rather poor drawings, the story is sometimes weak and the characters could speak with a louder voice for the audience to hear what is being said. This is a pretty good movie so go down to your library and borrow it there for free, or borrow it from a friend, or buy it(cheaply). 7/10

That's right folks! Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how underrated this film were, and that's mainly the reason I took my time commenting it.

Have this film in VHS and saw it for the first time with my little brother (age 7). And gosh! This is a warm feel-good nostalgic film that maybe suits best in Christmas! The animations are wonderful, the story and dialog are magical and the characters realistic!

When it comes to the quality of animation compared to todays animated movies this may not have much to come with BUT this title has its own style! Making it equal or even better than today's animation because of its originality - I love the atmosphere the background has created.

I can't think of one bored second - this film is truly magical! Watch it in Christmas eve, with the whole family!

Totally underrated: I give it 10/10, wish there were more films of this kind!