I love this movie so much

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Cannot remember seeing a film I enjoyed as much as "We are the best!". Guess it helped being in a full cinema, noisy as well with so much laugh-out-loud laughter. At its heart the film is about two thirteen year olds, Bobo and Klara. Later a third girl, Hedvig, is introduced but it's the relationship between Bobo and Klara that makes the film. There's a scene with Bobo and Klara in bed together after a party held by Klara's older brother Linus which is especially poignant, reminiscent of the night time scene from "Stand by me" with Will Wheaton and River Phoenix. There are so many unforgettable scenes, some, because of their root in reality (like "Fools and Horses" for example) so belly achingly funny. Everyone, and I mean everyone, in front of and behind the camera is brilliant. It's mighty close to being the perfect film. I loved this film. It is the best!

It is very rare that you see two callow girls with rebellion/ignorance as their sole weapon try to thwart a universally accepted notion. This film tries to introduce this setup but goes haywire once hormones kick in.The film talks about three 12/13-year old girls who have certain things to worry about like religion, relationships, haircuts, etc.. They believe that punk music is still alive and burning, while the world knows it is dead. With no resources or even an idea of where to start, they play with the it. I should say these girls perform exceptionally well and it didn't look like they were acting. Sporting semi-Mohawks and punky clothes, they try to find happiness in small things as they figure out music creation is no child's play, yet do not care to accept it. Several elements like family, revolt, youth, atheism, adolescence, etc. find mention in these girls' activities and that is where we start to notice that the drama goes off-topic and we don't really know if it was purely intentional. Beauty hampers these girls' mindset as one of them finds it hard to attract boys of her age or older. This deviates the theme and climax bears the brunt. If I were to draw a graph of the storyline, it would be like a gradual response of an analogous low pass filter.Direction is brilliant and so is the music that occasionally plays when the groove picks up. It gave me an idea how Swedish rock music is. Camera seems to be handled by a 2-year old; all shaky and bumpy throughout. Editing is fine and the film never really goes off-tune. The central characters and their escapades manage to keep you hooked.All said and done, I am not very happy with the story build, yet I enjoyed what I could deduce of it. It's all about being self-satisfied at the end of the day, and not caring about what others think, isn't it?BOTTOM LINE: We Are The Best! is how youth-led, non-violent, innocent rebellion looks like in the snow-clad suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden.Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES

"We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations." Freeman Dyson This girl punk band is definitely not the best, but their story is one of the best little films you will see about adolescence, its ennui, and its creativity. Three young girls around 12 are stereotypically bored with their parents and in love with rock n roll, out of which love they transcend their soporific life by forming a band.If for nothing else, We are the Best! is exclaiming the transformative power of music to lift spirits and connect with the world, this time outside of Stockholm in 1982, when singing about Brezhnev and Reagan and the danger of nuclear anything makes electric music and connects young, disaffected pseudo-punk girls with excitement and a small part of the outside world.The actresses are natural, attractive, and invested in being adolescents although I suspect they long ago passed 12 years old. Director Lucas Moodysson, adapting his wife, Coco's graphic novel has caught the silliness and loneliness of young girls who, with little talent but loads of chutzpah can be happy with a life they, not adults, frame for themselves. Thus they become the best for themselves.

It's been a while since i saw a Moodysson film. You forget just how effortless he makes film-making seem, but then you only have to watch almost any other movie with actors these ages to realise what a feat this is. If anything, the actors here are too young for their characters (unsusual!) - there was a scene near the end where the two leads are fighting that was hard to take seriously, and more seriously, the actress playing Bobo looked a little lost here as well! It lacks the depth or profundity of some of his earlier work, such as Show Me Love. That was 16 years ago, i remember it so clearly! Will I be thinking about this one for days after? i don't think so. Does Moodysson not make darker films any more? That's a shame, but for what this is, a light comedy suitable for all, plus a gentle homage to Sweden in the early 80s, it succeeds brilliantly. He's a little bit like the American John Hughes at showing a child's POV without being patronising, but unlike Hughes also without painting the adults in two dimensions. I'm hoping he'll make more films like this, maybe a bit longer and less afraid of upsetting the audience (that doesn't mean they all have to be like Lilya 4-ever either,there's a balance somewhere!). I'm being picky because i'm a fan - highly recommended and needs wider exposure like all of his films.