do you ever feel like life has taken a downward spiral out of control in a loony towns cartoon from the era of no regret? Then the people in this movie envy you. You take one part (huuuuush Lila wee man) weir ass swedes, and trow in some awful goddamn navigating skills, and a bit of failed basic understanding of how boating works. if i could summarize my life choices in an angry semen captain with the vocabulary of that one cowboy from lonely tones it would be the sweetest melody from the song of the south remake i was working with my uncle. This movie goes ever on and on, enough for three friends to decide to drunkenly write a review together to properly show their appreciation's for the cesspool that is sweetish cinema. most importantly, though, it just gets better and better (or worse, depending on whether you have shitty taste or not) until it all collapses into a sweet dynamited Whitman-Esq gay celebration of proteins, managing to involve the whole Swed population (totally not a spoiler i swear 100%%%%). "why do i always get called little wee man" asked little wee man when the last drop of his alcohols was dripping down like a tear from his favorite Hollywood actor bill Cosby. anyway, i give this movie a perfect 10 like my ex wife who left me for an angry semen. this movie is perfect for drinking with friends and enjoying seeing someone else's life crumble down when you keep yelling "WHY CANT THEY SWIM?" when the answer is that Sweden has been on an island for so long that they forgot what water looks like.pro tip, it's like a game of over watch but much less salt.

I have watched this picture once before, in my youth, and then I thought it was just boring crap. But as this movie is highly praised by Swedish movie critics, I just decided to give it another chance - in case I would realize its greatness now when I am older, and have more experience of both real life and movies. The result: it was still just boring crap! And absurd, bizarre, stupid and entirely without meaning or message, into the bargain...By the way, I have always thought that both the writers and several of the actors, are greatly over-valued in general. The duo "Hasse & Tage", who both wrote and performed in their variety shows, stand-up comedy, "witty" monologue etc., and wrote several books that were supposed to be comic but were not... But they were, and still are for those generations who still remember them, some kind of holy cows that one was not allowed to criticize. If one did, one got to hear that one did not understand their greatness... So everybody in the 1960:s-1980:s had to pretend that they did! The same goes for the actors. Except for the afore-mentioned Hasse & Tage, who were no more successful as actors than as writers, there are a few other names that got a lot of critical acclaim at this time. For instance: Monica Zetterlund and Birgitta Andersson, both of whom I have always only found cheap and vulgar, and Gösta Ekman junior, who actually only lived on the name of his father Hasse Ekman and his grand-father: the very great, handsome and charismatic actor Gösta Ekman senior. Gösta junior has nothing of Hasse's or Gösta senior's star quality.With this said, maybe one can relate to the plot in this movie just a little, as a Swede. Because we are all brought up on that national-romantic idea of a traditional Midsummer celebration or (as in this movie) cray-fish party in the famous Swedish Archipelago, with all the proper ingredients (such as aquavit, dill, fiddler's folk-music, bare cliffs, waves, rowing-boats and paper moons with lanterns in them... and of course cray-fish) in the company of very good friends. But then of course in reality, most Swedes either never attend this kind of party in the archipelago in their lives, or if they do they will get disappointed from a lot of reasons...In fact, I think the beginning of this movie was alright, because it depicted this disappointment, when a lot of bad things happened so that the Swedish Dream cray-fish party turned into a night-mare instead. The mistake, though, was that the movie was too long, and that the misadventures became more and more unrealistic and absurd. Then you could not relate to it anymore - in fact it soon turned embarrassingly stupid...

This is an overrated so-called "comedy classic". Many Swedish film legends are in this film but Hasse Alfredsson, Tage Danielsson and Gösta Ekman are very unfunny. They must have written this together one summer night after lots of vodka. The only good thing is that Birgitta Andersson and Monica Zetterlund is in it. Many Swedes love this film, why, I just don't know. It is a complete mystery to me. Maybe they see themselves when they try to celebrate midsummer. I hope people in other countries don't think this is the best Sweden has to offer.

A gloriously crazy film, superb acting all over the line and so funny you'll laugh every time you see it. Possibly the last truly funny Swedish movie (sadly). 10 out of 10, and a golden star to Hans Alfredson for his wonderful portrayal of the old gobbledygook-speaking fisherman.