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When rating movies I usually have two ratings - one for mainstream and one for artsy / Lithuanian movies. It's kinda sad that Lithuanian cinema still hasn't produced anything that would impress me or I wouldn't leave cinema theater without a thought "ok, this was good... for a Lithuanian movie". And this is exactly the case - it's ok for a Lithuanian movie.

From the script / directing point of view I was annoyed at the start - extremely long, very static scenes that are often associated with classic / old Lithuanian cinema. But after a while I got kinda used to that and thought "if this was the art style for decades, maybe this is / should be the signature of Lithuanian movies?". Similar genre Japanese counterparts are also tend to be this slow, but it's not immediately a bad sign. In this case the slowness did convey the mood pretty well. Oh yeah, I slightly got lost in details, so the script may have been a bit more forgiving (but probably that's my problem).

Regarding the characters - character development was not that evident, yet I kind of understand that this may have been done in order to convey the ephemeral mood. At least there was no theatrical overacting / weird & unnatural dialogs - this ruins Lithuanian movies way too often. So no criticism regarding the cast.

Regaring the techical details - I kinda was bummed seeing so much chromatic abberation in the movie. At first I thought maybe this was a cinema hardware bug, but... probably it was just left during the post-process (should have been removed in my oppinion).

Nevertheless, despite all the mentioned shortcomings, the movie did convey the mood very well - I may have recognized similar situations from my life at some point and left the cinema with an uneasy feeling. This type of movie is not my cup of tea (to say the least), but I do believe that the director (as well as all other cast members) has achieved their goal.

The key line of the movie is about a school teacher sex tape is leaked and she is in danger of losing her job. While it is rather interesting to learn more about Romania via random fact bits and sceneries, cutting movie time in (at least) half would not change anything, the story would be completely safe. So if you are about to watch this movie (although I'm not sure I'd recommend it), keep that trusty pillow and blanked near your side, just in case. Oh yeah, the movie does contain a number of explicit material scenes, but some of them also seemed to be added just for the shock element or an unnecessary filler.

I love comedies and absolutely adore Tadas Vidmantas and his works, I really liked the first movie, but this one... I'd like to forget as soon as possible. I understand that it's hard to create humour, because you have to "hit the spot", but if we excluded (really impressive) part of Ineta Stasiulytė, the rest is pretty much boring and cringy.

Lots of scenes seemed to be "overworked" (it's not easy to watch when a lame character tries to be funny very hard), some of the jokes were plainly juvenile. I understood most of the jokes / references, but it was just not funny. Speaking about the characters, Timūras seemed subdued or something like that (the memorable duo really shined in the first movie), while others just gave pretty bland performances.

Soundtrack seemed also not up to director's standards. Even the script appeared to be a little bit rushed and unfinished. The first movie had at least a solid (although small) plot and this one... like watching glued together outtakes of the first movie.

In summary: + 1 for naturally funny Ineta Stasiulytė + 1 for Tadas Vidmantas (I'll still watch whatever he will create) + 0.5 for not letting the extremely unfunny Pobedonoscevas ruin the movie + 0.5 for the whole ad campaign, that lured me into seeing this movie.

Total: 3/10