Tulnukas 2 ehk Valdise tagasitulek 17 osas

As sequels to cult classics go, there was two ways this movie could've turned out. It either builds on the previous film's legacy, or it shatters the hopes of fans. While neither really turned out to be true, I couldn't help, but cringe in between short moments of laughter.

There were some big issues with the movie. Firstly, while the first movie was about 20 minutes long, this one was dragged to be 2 hours long. This made for long sections in the plot where nothing really productive/interesting was happening and you could feel that you were just purposely getting dragged a step forward before being pushed two steps back. Secondly, while Ott Sepp's acting was amazing, Märt Avandi didn't seem like he was Valdis. He came across more as like a parody of Valdis with overexaggerated grimaces and pointless extra swearing on top of the "Tulnukas"-esque swearing which had served it's purpose already. On top of that, the movie rested a lot of it's weight on the classic one-liners and quotes from the first movie. While there were some details and dialogue in the film, which took a fine jab at the post-COVID society and the bipolarity of the current political climate, most of the dialogue just came across as unnecessary, dull, annoying and/or unfunny.

All in all, I feel like it would have been better off being another approximately 20 minute short movie.

The movie takes place in the future where Estonia is now crime free, you see how Valdis is amazed where the fu%# is he now, he feels like he is an alien from another planet. Everyone is crazy, everyone feels a little off, homies are kind of stupid. Will Valdis save the world? Maybe, you have to check this out, if you are at this point around 16-25 you will love the movie, known actors in this make this a banger.

The movie feels like original, but with better quality, some mad plottwists like always with Valdis and his bros, you have to see the movie first hand in a cinema where are the big speakers to really give you hint of Rait's bmw music.

As someone who feels very nostalgic about the first part of "Tulnukas ehk Valdise pääsemine 11 osas", like probably most of the Estonian people, I was both scared and excited about the arrival of the second part. I feared that the film would completely miss the brilliance of the first part. At times, it indeed did. However, it wasn't bad at all. It was brilliant in its own way.

But why do I say it wasn't a sequel to the first part? For me, the attitude and humor of this film were sometimes too different from the well-known "If there are swear words, then it's funny" humor of the first part. This is evidenced by the fact that too many memorable phrases didn't stick. However, they played quite well on top of the sentences from the previous part. Both "small family loan" and "shall I bring soap from the car?" were back.

Speaking of the plot of the film, Rasmus Merivoo touched quite strongly on societal sore points and turned them completely upside down. He had created, for this purpose, a world that was at times so exaggerated and dystopian, where there was simultaneously so much that was familiar, yet at the same time, nothing directly truthful. I would even dare to draw a parallel with the movie "Barbie," where everything seen there is made simpler and turned upside down."

In conclusion, it touched my nostalgia and satisfied the need to find out what happened to the characters. As an Estonian, I am happy!