Absolutely amazing

A Disappointing Continuation

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

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!

One day i went to the bookstore and saw a cartoon covered book. It was green and very simple. Usually i don't get easily attracted, but it had a very long title. "The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson. I thought to myself, should i buy it or just leave it? Long story short, i finished the book with many laughter and many new inspirations. it was funny, dramatic, and deep. Jonas Jonasson explained in a simple way how corrupted our world is. It's so ironic it makes you laugh. I share the book to many of my friends. Suddenly somebody said there was a movie based about the book. I was very exited, (if you have red the book, my country, Indonesia, was quoted many times and the stupidity of how our government is was also written) so i searched the movie. It was a bit difficult to get movies that weren't published by our media. The movie store wasn't going to sell any movie that seems had no prospect in it (pop-minded-people). Finally after a long journey i got the movie and watched. Watched. And watched. Yes, the cast are there. The director did a good job casting the actors, especially Allan Karlson, Herbert Einstein, Julius, and the Never Again Squad. But, there was a minute that i got lost when Allan succeed the Manhattan Project and suddenly arrived in Sweden. Is it just me, or is this new plot a bit disappointing? Actually my favorite quote of the book was "There are only two things I can do better than most people. One of them is to make vodka from goats' milk, and the other is to put together an atom bomb." There was a moment in the book where Allan traveled through the Himalaya's. It was there he found his other "hobby" and after his "enlightenment" he went to Tehran and met a very fanatic priest. Maybe because of the budgeting and other technical matters this project can't afford it. But in my opinion this was a important moment for the development of the characters and the story. There were many changes from the book to the movie. I tried to be objective and watch it in another perspective, but still, how did Allan survive Gulag, how did he suddenly had a Chinese traditional clothes when he was in France (the book describes that he was the translator and the best friend of an Indonesian ambassador), and why did the movie script writer add more antagonist (Pim - Alan Ford). The book was dark. It had sarcasm everywhere, but i can't feel it in the movie. So yes, it was entertaining, but not what i hoped for.

The type of humor that is used in this movie was so refreshing. I love dark comedies, and I love dark humor. I appreciated it even more because it was by no means a dark movie. It was incredible how they made such a lighthearted movie with such dark comedy. Think Secondhand Lions meets Forrest Gump, I know, it's worth it though. The main Character was so nonchalant it was endearing. His care free attitude was refreshing and easy to watch. The supporting cast is what really makes the movie for me though. I don't know who any of these actors are, but the casting Director did such a good job. They all melded so well together. They fed off each other's presence and they were able to share scenes extremely well with each other. It was very play-esque in that regard. Having read some of the other reviews I will simply say, if you take this movie too seriously you've already lost the point. If you look for flaws you're bound to find them, however, it's such a fun movie. It's light, it's dark, and personally, just a funny movie.

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.