Let me preface this by saying that I am from Croatia and that I was genuinely excited to see this movie. I love jokes specific to this region and I expected a lot of laughter.
I was severely disappointed. The beginning of the movie showed some promise, but after about 20 minutes in I started losing interest. At the end of the movie, I didn't regret watching it because I now know what kind of movies to avoid. I don't mind the movie being a parody about people from Slavonija (and others), but if you're making a parody at least make a good one.
I was flabbergasted by what the movie amounted to in the end. There were scenes that just didn't make sense, like the crowd cheering "Svi ostali" or something similar. It's an attempt at trying to be funny, but there's a difference between trying to be funny and actually being funny. Also, the stealing of the "zlatni kulen" award happened too fast and it wasn't well developed in my opinion. I think the director tried to combine too many elements and did so incoherently: there were scenes where the members of the Aveti Ravnice band were chased by a tractor and heavy metal music was blaring in the background. That particular scene could have used better sound editing for sure, but that scene just didn't fit into the overall picture of the movie. There was also a scene where one of the other bands comes to the guy driving the tractor and says "Oces da ti razbijem picku?" and then proceeds to punch his wife. This joke may sound funny here in this review, but is absolutely not funny in the movie. The fight scenes were completely unnecessary, in my opinion, as well as the scene with the hunters from Italy. Mixing of religious elements near the end didn't help as well. Full disclosure: I am a Christian and a Slavonian and I don't mind being made fun of, but if you're going to make fun of me at least do it properly. The actors were surprisingly good, given that they had to follow such a terrible script.
Overall, there were a few good jokes both on the Slavonian and the gypsy front, so this movie gets a 2/10 rating. I think it will only be funny to people who have a dry sense of humor combined with a certain level of snobbism that always goes hand in hand with dry humor.
I am not trying to bash the director in any way; maybe his other movies are great. I just think that before you try to make a parody of a certain group of people you should get to know them, or at least have someone from that group of people on the movie set so that you can make fun of the group authentically. It seems like the director sat in an ivory tower for this movie and tried to make a parody based on common stereotypes, but even if this was the case this movie still doesn't deliver because it looks like a movie with random elements all over the place, some of which I covered in the 3rd paragraph of this review.
I suggest that the director descends from his ivory tower the next time he is making a parody, spends some time with the locals so he can make fun of them better, doesn't try to mix so many random elements and most certainly improves his dry sense of humor. You underdelivered on this one, Stanislave. Don't let it happen again.
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