Baba's Cars
Baba's Cars
| 31 March 2006 (USA)
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Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster.

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Konterr

Brilliant and touching

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Gurlyndrobb

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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filippaberry84

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Billy Ollie

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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kosmasp

I really don't know what or even if Scandinavians have problems with each other as depicted in the movie ... it seemed to be an inside joke that ran throughout the movie and although I'm not on the inside, like I said, I liked that! This movie is anything but PC. It's quirky, it dark and for some it might just be stupid. But I liked the characters and the approach (the movie does not take itself serious). Of course it has flaws, but it makes fun of them instead of trying to be something it can't be (a Hollywood action movie for example). So either you'll go to watch this being open for a dark humored action flick or you don't! :o)

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cinna665

Babas bilar is a hilarious combination of Nordic stereotypes and languages as well as plain awful but funny ultra-violence. As a comedy in the same violent way as Pulp Fiction, but happening in a small Swedish town during winter, this movie is just good entertainment.Andreas Wilson plays Jojo, a poor young guy in love with his girlfriend Anso (Sara Sommerfeld), but with too little money for a proper house or apartment. Anso has a strong disagreement with her father Baba (Hassan Brijany) who is selling and buying cars, and not always so much according to the law. Then Jojo ends up helping Baba with one Cadillac, full of Russian drug money...The wonderful combination of different nationals and languages was probably the funniest part of this movie. We've seen people blown up for the sake of fun in other movies as well, but Babas bilar brings the new aspect of different nationalities and stereotypes into this "fish soup". The Russian drug dealer and his three Finnish bodyguards, a Norwegian car buyer along with the Swedes just cook up something funny together. As a Finn myself, I was laughing a lot when seeing the oh-so-familiar behaviour of Finnish males in sauna, played by three very popular Finnish actors (Peter Franzen, Jarmo Mäkinen and Hannu Kiviaho).As a story Babas bilar does not offer much new, but as plain entertainment, this was something I liked.

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jmalmsten

Although I rarely agree with filmkrönikan, I have to say that this film while not awful, just didn't make me care at all... and it all just seemed to be out of place... it had its moments... three or four ones that made me snicker... but most of the time I was just sitting and wondering why? why did the characters do this? even Hot Shots characters felt more thought out and fleshed out...If you want to see a nice norrlands-film then watch Pistvakt. There it was more than random ethnicities that just walked around shooting each other on the Swedish tundra...I am so disappointed...

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kouprey

Being an Non-Scandinavian, I'm not able to share the (justified?) disapproval of some of the other reviewers. So all native Scandinavians, please excuse my apparent ignorance;). Watching this movie on a SAS flight, I felt quite amused by this little gangster comedy involving Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Arabs and Russians in a vivid turmoil about cars,guns and money. Though the story about a Russian mobster and his crazy Finnish hit men trying to get an old Cadillac full of mob money back from a sleazy car dealer and his naive son-in-law surely isn't all too original (often resembling movies like Snatch or Pulp Fiction), the location and actors do indeed convey a certain charm that makes this movie all in all worth to watch, and may it be just for the sake of simple entertainment.

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