Very Cold Trip

An unimaginative guy's booze, boobs and bravado flick. A loafer boyfriend is told by his girlfriend that he needs to get a cablebox so they can watch "Titanic" or she leaves so he and his two similarly goofball, loafer, less-than-responsible buddies drive what is suppose to be a couple of hundred kilometers (the actual times and distances make 10 kilos more likely) looking for a store or some other source that has the cablebox. Essentially the movie showcases the dumb slapstick mistakes they make at a level that would make a juvenile hyped. Made in 2010 and now being released in DVD so that tells you something.

Oh, wow. This ending is one of the finest I've ever seen. Absolutely brilliant. The movie Hangover has clearly been riding along when Pekko Pesonen typed this madness down. His scenes are seriously over you, like a group of killer bikini chicks. Very nice. At first I thought I had walked into an exhausting exercise in endurance of sole stupidity, but then I realized my mistake. These buddies are in fact in a confused state of mind due to unemployment. Hence mentally crippled and do the best they can. This is a very unfortunate clarity blunder, but otherwise director Dome Karukoski's movie is a master class in consistency. Much thanks to Jussi Vatanen's believable laid back style.

I thought it was going to be a hilarious comedy, Hangover style - with stupid, but believable characters and comprehensible plot. Instead it was a mess to watch. The actions of the morons made no sense. Their personalities were unbelievable. Maybe if they were completely stoned, but they weren't! It wouldn't have mattered much to me if the situations they found themselves in were funny, but I couldn't even laugh at them! I kept waiting and hoping for the film to get better, to resemble the trailer I saw... I should have known better.

This is one of those films that provide enough set pieces to pay off the simplistic plot. The film grows more outlandish by the minute and even when you think it is about to go on the straight and narrow, it takes another bizarre turn. Is it a genre defining movie? No. It is a movie that ticks the boxes and is fun in the process. Likable characters and a crazy plot allow for a film that is going to divide the audience. I enjoyed it.

...just read the (unfortunately few) positive english reviews they are basically right and more eloquent written than mine. Good fun, good laughs with friends or to cheer you up alone,including un-predictable story turns hence will keep you watch it to the end, what does one want more?

The setting in middle finnland with its grim long dark winter but people totally used to it added a bit of insight how things can be up there (I've been there).

These negative english reviews (among the very few english ones in total (11) even now in 2022) bug me a bit, as there are sooo many reeally (really!) bad english films/comedies around and whe there's a foreign one, they let rip - why not relearn to laugh a little about "simple" jokes again?