Mia and I watched "Once in Phuket" a while ago. I gave it 1/10 without blinking and would rather forget it. "Sommaren med Göran" is worse. We saw it tonight.Right now I long to see the most depressing film ever, just to feel something. No, nothing special has happened to me, the film is the reason that I feel this way. I think of the movie "G" where Nazi band sang the line "You are bursting with apathy." I'm bursting with apathy right now.I'm totally honest now. I really try not to pick cheap points or make fun at someone's expense. Suddenly I feel like I need to express myself, therapeutically, in a different way than when I visited Auschwitz.Seeing Peter Magnusson's movies makes me ask myself so many questions:Why does he write them? Where does he get the money to do them? Do the movies sell? How do people feel when they have seen them, if they are able to feel afterwards? Does he really think he is funny, and he has reached some kind of deadline that must be met, whereupon he fills a movie with platitudes and non-jokes? Note: this film is supposedly a comedy. Why does Stockholm display throughout the movie? It is neither beautifully filmed nor fills any function.Mia wondered why the film is called "Summer with Göran"; indeed, why? It doesn't take place over an entire summer, just a few days, and if the title is just a pastiche of "Summer with Monika", I think Magnusson deserves even more crap than he gets here and now.A character in the movie has tics. I do not know if Magnusson means it to be funny, or if he has put it in the movie to show that it's okay, because it shouldn't be censored; however, this is just incredibly ugly done. This is not to mention the dialogue. Nobody in Sweden speaks like characters in this film do. I would have preferred the bone-dry Dramaten type of dialogue, but this was just bad. Inappropriate. Arid and stupid.Magnusson's character is not interesting in any way. He doesn't say anything engaging. His job is not interesting. His character is uninteresting - not unlike his character in "Phuket", which was also boring and bland. Pointless and meaningless.Hardly anyone in the film can play. Peter Dalle and Dan Ekborg are with, and they should be ashamed, they can really act, but not here. Why did they join this? Why?! I'm really asking.Why was there a dancing and singing scene in the middle of everything, half-assedly choreographed? In a half-empty room with people that look so enthusiastic out that Death from "The Seventh Seal" feels like Håkan Hellström in the video for "Come on Lena" (=very enthusiastic and filled with joie de vivre). This is just so misplaced, rotten and riddled with moths that it goes over the edge to elicit maximum anger and rage, and only makes one apathetic.A dog is in the film. Is its only rôle to make people laugh from the way it looks? I can find no other reason. But what do I know?I feel almost apathetic. Writing about this movie gives me more of my life back.If I had paid to see this movie, I would beat myself, for real. I would like to go through the film with Magnusson and really, really get to know exactly what he means by everything in it.The protagonist's friends are so uninteresting, and all passages containing his friend's wife is just boring and unnecessary. And nobody cares about the protagonist: in one point in the film he escapes a party by jumping from the balcony. When he did it I thought it was just as well for anyone who was at the party. Damn. I really try not to be funny; I'm merely pointing out how lousy this movie is. As you can see I keep on getting angry again.There is nothing romantic in this movie. It could be great, but any chance of that was thrown away. All female roles are pathetically written.Someone should have told Magnusson. Someone should have pulled the emergency brake, shouted a "What are you doing?" If not for his sake, then for their own or for others. Those of you who have been in this but really, really, really didn't need the money (which you really didn't need that bad, I wager a sporting and somewhat cruel guess): shame on you.The only funny speaking of music: Måns Zelmerlöw can laugh himself lucky to SFI calling him "Måns Zemmerlöf" in their list. And why has nobody laboured any love over the soundtrack for this film? Recently I saw on "Klassfesten", a good Swedish comedy, that features a soundtrack that a) fits the movie and b) is good.Damn all of you, who made "Sommaren med Göran".

In my book, this is one of the best and most enjoyable "Bridget Jones" type movies, albeit with a male protagonist. The characters initially seems like a hopeless crowd, and the humor is mostly based around their flawed relationships, but also the stresses and challenges of combining a meaningless job with looking for the perfect girlfriend play in. This movie does this very elegantly, with small but important scenes conveying the story to the viewer, and without being too obvious this movie seems fresh and surprisingly funny. The movie also avoids a lot of the pitfalls one sees in comedies these days. I would recommend this movie to anyone looking for a "feel good"-movie.

I think this movie would be suitable in film related classes. There are so many flaws yet also a lot of signs of quality. I think it above all tries to be too much at once. Also, the director's experience in TV humour work is evident in the way the movie often seems to be put together from several snippets.It is funny here and there, in short flashes surprisingly so. But then there are the romantic scenes, decidedly less expertly crafted. And again, the two doesn't get along very seamlessly. A few characters are funny, or might have been, but here too their presence highlights the split un-whole general feel.

There is absolutely no glory in Swedish police films, but it isn't in our midsummer films either. This is about the event guy, who works hard, but is still kind of sensitive. He wants to marry, but meet the wrong women all the time.How many times have we seen midsummer party disasters? Quite many, to say the least. People get drunk, excited, cheat and feel sad about it. But here it as usual mostly there to make the audience laugh. No depths here, just a way of getting couples to the pictures a Friday night and then tell their neighbors how funny this was.If there aren't any other ambitions, you could of course call this successful.