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Sadly Over-hyped

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It's not a bad film but if you've read the book you are going to be disappointed (as one often do). In this case maybe a bit more. Because the book is fantastic and a lot of fun. I don't read all that many books but this one is a must.

This is probably one of the longest film titles I know, but it clearly tells you what to expect, I mainly took notice of this Swedish when it was nominated at the Academy Awards, I hoped for something interesting. Basically Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) has lived a long and colourful life, he finds himself stuck in a nursing home, seemingly his last stop, but Allan is still in good health, and he is not keen to celebrate his 100th birthday. So Allan decides to climb out of the window and disappear, for most people this would be the adventure of a lifetime, but this unexpected journey is not his first, he has already experienced so much in his lifetime. Allan finds himself getting into a strange situation where he has unintentionally stolen a traveller's luggage bag, it is full of thousands, if not millions, in drug money, along with some people he meets on his journey, with no determined final destination, he continues travelling to find something to do with this newfound fortune, with criminals hot on his trail. The film has many flashbacks seeing Allan as a child, where he gained a love for blowing things up, and we see him grow up into a man who continues this hobby, using it as a career, and getting in many interesting situations and meeting many interesting characters, as well historical figures along the way. Also starring Iwar Wiklander as Julius Jonsson, David Wiberg as Benny, Mia Skäringer as Gunilla, Jens Hultén as The Boss, Alan Ford as Pim, Ralph Carlsson as Chief Inspector Aronsson, Bianca Cruzeiro as Caracas, Sven Lönn as Bucket, David Shackleton as Herbert Einstein (Albert's brother); Tumba, Sonja and Thnog Suk as Sonja the Elephant, Pernilla Göst as Allan's Mother, Ola Björkman as Allan's Father, Kerry Shale as Harry S. Truman, Donald Högberg as Professor Lundborg, Algirdas Paulavicius as Josef Stalin, Sigitas Rackys as Gorbachev and Keith Chanter as Ronald Reagan. Gustafsson is likable as the very old man who goes through a number of adventures until reaching his tenth decade and proving that you're never too old to have another big adventure, I can see the comparison to Forrest Gump, where the leading character by chance enters many historical events and comes across significant people along the way, but it is not as cleverly done, this does have some nice and atmospheric moments, you do go along slightly with the story both in flashbacks and present day, and you cannot deny the makeup and hair to create ageing is fantastic, but it is not quite funny or enjoyable as other similar films, a fair and reasonable comedy drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Okay!

I heard that the book behind this was really something different, told in a great way and really captured the reader with crazy tales, so I was hoping that the film would be a great experience, even though I had not read the book.This is great, really funny and different, he has really lived life to the fullest and experienced great things :) and he still is through out this film. It is a kind of Forest Gump film, but with a Scandinavian twist and humor, it works out really well and Allan is like Forest in many ways, he is telling his story as he experienced it, it is ordinary and quite simple to him, but it is spectacular for us as the viewer and strange in some ways and deliberately or not funny.You should watch it, it is really fun.

I've seen some wacky comedies but few like Felix Herngren's "Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann" ("The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" in English). I didn't know that this movie was based on a book, but I'd say that you don't have to have read the book to find the movie hilarious. Like "Forrest Gump" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" it incorporates real events into its fictional story. I guess that one could say that the movie reminds us that age is just a number that we apply to ourselves, because you've never had a series of experiences like this centenarian has! I have no doubt that you'll enjoy the movie. It goes to show that, yes, the Scandinavians CAN be funny.PS: Alan Ford is best known for roles in Guy Ritchie movies, but also appeared in "An American Werewolf in London" and "Chaplin".