Wow! Such a good movie.

Awesome Movie

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This is a weak film. It has themes that the kids of the right age to appreciate its childish plot aren't ready to grapple with: the little girl's dream of what to be when grown up is a prostitute; the adoptive father character calls a passing black man the Swedish for a "nig*er". The film has the usual little kids' plot but chucks in provocations like these.It really doesn't have much going for it at all. The film is like the wonderful Swedish film about another child with parental difficulties, but written at a remedial level. My Life as a Dog is a marvellous film with it's playing my the lead actors, magical plot full of odd occurrences but due to the strength of the writing, believable ones. There is even time for the side-plot of the dog that the boy has had to give up, the tragic results of this which are kept from him and what the imagination of the boy does with this dog's absence. THAT is the film to see. Give this hopeless one about undertaker and kids a miss.

A Summer Tale is a nice family movie. It reminded me a little bit "My Life as a Dog".Both movies are set to the same year - 1958 and in both movies kids must go somewhere away to the place they are not familiar with. They are unhappy but will recover later.Because I don't know too much about Sweden, some things seemed strange to me.Can you really hit the policeman in Sweden without being punished?:DWas the adoption in Sweden really so easy as described in the movie (I want foster-child and I will get it :P)? Can somebody explain it to me?

I will have to disagree with the previous critiques here. I found this to be a very average movie, unfocused characters (though 3D most of the time) with odd twists in the plot and completely dumb ending, that doesn't make sense anywhere, let alone Sweden (and I refer to the summer-daddy picking up the kids from the hands of the police without anyone running after him).The entire set of relationships in this movie has been seen before and is not really interesting. The "romantic" couple is an old-fashioned, ugly and clumsy couple that we suppose to feel something for, and I didn't. The kids are OK, but I think that the French "Le Grand chemin" (1987), that pretty much tackled the same story line, but with far better performances between the lead kids. And how exactly do kids get the stuff to tattoo themselves while being hospitalized?! I was shocked at the silliness of that scene.Skip it, a very minor attempt.

This is an excellent movie that captures the same mood that is so common in Lasse Hallströms movies. The pace is excellent, it's full of good oneliners, and has a great ending. Ulf Malmroos has again proven that he is one of the best Swedish directors in modern times.