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This series is a pretty weak one in my humble opinion. If you compare it with Next Gen or DS9 the level of imagination and complexity is pretty low. We're mostly doing personal dramas and rehashing used themes but within the Star Trek universe. I did not see the original series, it was before my time, so I can't compare with that, but I did read a few books and they were good, way above what this series provided so far.

So if you look at it from this perspective, while a musical approach makes it feel even less Star Trek than it already is, it's a pretty low bar already so you can just enjoy the music. And some songs are nice and witty. This was one of the few episodes I did watch without skipping ahead, from one end to the other, with a smile on my face.

So there it is, best episode in the series! The theatrical one was really bad though... So maybe less "art", more Star Trek from now on? :D.

Long time since I've seen a comedy that actually made me laugh. This was so damn funny, I laughed the whole movie which I don't think it ever happened to me.

You must be a stressed stiffed romanian to not appreciate how absolutely superb this movie was and at the same time you need to be romanian to understand the huge amount of cultural subtleties present in the movie. At every turn in this movie there was fun made by something.. either corporate culture, work attitude, regional pride and common traits, current situations, etc They made fun of themselves and everything/everybody around and maybe some jokes were obvious, but still funny when encompassed in all that authentic environment and language.

Which brings us to the language. I had english subtitles, they were obviously before the actual speach, I've read them and did not even smile, heard it in romanian with all that swearing and the joke became funny as hell. I don't swear (except in english and when driving...) so vulgar language is not common to me but in this context it just made perfect sense.

I thoroughly enjoyed the prejudice, the language, the jokes. Would I watch it again, no, it was a relaxed, funny movie, but definitely no art work. It was just pure romanian fun and I absolutely stand by my rating.

This is visually a nicely done movie. But that's about it. Other than that it is nothing but a walking cliche exacerbated by chinese mentality. You know where 5 people would do something mentionable in an american movie, 100 do it here. From a plot point of view the movie is very shallow, you can tell what will happen 15 minutes in advance and the characters have some weird behaviors/intense dramas that feel quite random (some out of nothing, some reasonable in our day to day existence but highly out of place in their current world).

In conclusion the movie is nothing to write home about, but I have a feeling that I will remember it for quite a while, for good and for worse. So if you have nothing to do and it is "on sale" it might be worth watching to at least be able to talk about it with your friends :)