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Varning för Jönssonligan was, and still is, one of my favorite movies. The thing that separates it from other movies are the wonderful characters especially "Sickan" played by Gösta Ekman. I recommend it to everyone

Varning för jönssonligan.. if anyone from the USA would ask me what Swedish movie is the best, i'd say the Jonssonleague movies. All those movies are very special and each has a great amount of comedy! The first one is my personal favorite! I saw this movie when i was 3-4 years old.. and i LOVED IT! I have never stopped watching the movies because they never really get boring. Every scene in the movie have a bunch of comedy.

The music made by Ragnar Grippe is perfect, my favorite is the main theme and the intro music.

If you haven't seen it yet,... go check it out because this movie is absolutely fantastic!

This is the first of the Jönssonligan movies. There are 7 of them so far. Not always the same actors but always some similarity. The big personality in these movies is Charles Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson. He is a nutty but very determined thief and an expert on breaking in a special kind of safe called "Frans Jäger". He has two companions in this film called Vanheden and Rocky. They have several different missions in this film but the main one is stealing the Bedford jewels, worth 20 million dollars. Their enemy is Wall Enberg, the richest man in Sweden. He is not the most honorable one. Dirty money. Black market. And lies. Great fun!

This is an almost frame-to-frame copy of the Danish Olsen gang movies, except from the Olsens habitual beer (alcohol!) drinking and visiting prostitutes and making porno movies, which would perhaps offend puritan sensibilities in the Swedish Bible Belt (Småland).

What's the point of making a Swedish version of a Danish institution in movie history, when Danish and Swedish are just mere dialects of a non-standardized Scandinavian language?

Have society been this dumbed down after Scandinavianism in the early 1900s, was displaced by state-nationalism?

This is one of its kind of all Jönssonligan movies. Simply the best of them. Gösta Ekman was one of the best comedian actor in Sweden of all time. When he gets in chock at the end of this movie he regards to a child and pretend that a shoe is a cat and that is so funny. I have seen the movie I think twenty times and I think I can see it again and again and again...

A cult classic in Swedish movies. This is the first movie with the criminal league called Jönssonligan named after the "leader" Charles-Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson. I have loved these movies the day the came. It blends clever burgler tricks with comedy. The funniest actor is of course Gösta Ekman. He's great as the little bit confused and clumsy but intelligent "Sickan" and he comes up the plans and his colleagues helps him. This is a true classic.

A very cleverly written and produced comedy, clearly stating that Jönssonligan would be a very successful series of films. This can be recommended to anyone between 5 and 95 years of age. Harmless, funny and perfect for the entire family. It's like a modern sequel to Laurel and Hardy. Gösta Ekman is one of the world's most talented actors, period.

A beginning to a rolling stone.

The first "Jönssonligan" is sadly set as a template for all the other movies to come. After this the franchise lacks originality and it is more as a money grab.

I have not seen the Danish Original, but for me this feels like the beginning. This is truly one of the higher peaks of Swedish movies and I really love the analog style, framing and visual style that went into this. Some of the scenes will probably haunt me until my last days, like the. - Sidewalk Swedish flagpole shot - Under the bridge sailing Swedish flag - Sickan in the cement - and the hight tower balloon shot.