Redundant and unnecessary.

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.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The ridiculously-long-winded title 'The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared' thankfully does not represent the film - it's a simple fish-out-of-water comedy, that just happens to be set in Sweden & featuring a centenarian. In reality, the main character - Allan Karlsson - is played by Gustafsson, who's only 49! However, the title does accurately describe the first 15min of the film, but what happens after that needs to be seen to be believed!One serendipitous incident leads to another and the script (or rather, the screenplay of the novel, which I haven't read) is so well written that as they get more absurd & hilarious, they still somehow seem plausible within the story. It starts off in Sweden (English subtitles, but with Karlsson's spoken inner-monologue in English), but by telling his life's back story, takes in quite a few countries and eras - Spain, America, Russia, WWII - quite 'Forrest Gump'-like in parts, which is a good thing!The three main supporting actors are great characters and add to the story and it should be warned that some of the humour is a little black, but it all done with so much zest that you can't help but laugh! A good ending, fun soundtrack and excellent pacing make this a foreign/indie film well worth seeing!

When I was going to watch this movie for the first time at the movies I thought it was going to be some mediocre boring movie about chasing a man who escaped. The movie turned out to be something way more interesting than what I thought about it at first and I won't spoil anything just watch the movie and you'll probably know what I mean.

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".

"The 100 Year-old Man" is a reasonably enjoyable and quirky film. However, as you watch, no doubt you'll feel that you've seen it all before...which is not surprising. The film is sort of like a Swedish version of "Forrest Gump" merged with a crime film. The overall results are mixed. While the film is filled with wonderful ironies, many times these situations aren't all that funny. And, there is a definitely sweetness missing from this film that you had with "Forrest Gump".The story is about a stupid old man who escapes from a nursing home. Along the way, he steals money that belongs to an evil gang and the gang and the police are both looking for him--but for very different reasons. Along the way, the film has a lot of interludes where you see the central character, Allan, when he's younger and his many Cold War adventures.The film has many wonderful moments but the odd thing about it is that the flashbacks where Allan is involved in the Manhattan Project, meeting Truman, meeting Stalin and becoming a spy all are seriously flawed. First, there is no reason for these--they don't in any way relate to the rest of the film. So, there are Gump-like interludes within the film but they are completely irrelevant. Second, the transitions from today to the past are almost random. I think overall the film would have been better with NONE of these flashbacks and just stuck to the story about the stolen money, as this was much sweeter, funnier and entertaining. Seriously flawed but worth seeing.