Rendező:
Petr NikolaevForgatókönyvíró:
Miroslav OščatkaOperatőr:
David PloyharZeneszerző:
Jiří ChlumeckýSzereplők:
Ondřej Sokol, Michal Suchánek, Richard Genzer, Simona Krainová, Simona Babčáková, Václav Matějovský, Jakub Burýšek, Michal Šášinka, Linda Bartošová (több)Tartalmak(1)
The film, an adaptation of a bestselling novel by author Michal Viewegh, is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. In several time lines, the film tells the story of school-friends going through various stages of life together. We find ourselves at a class reunion. This ostensibly banal situation opens the way to both sentimental memories and, above all, a balancing up of lives led to date, with their unfulfilled desires and realized dreams. The plot revolves around three friends – Jeff, Skippy and Tom – whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment. Their counterparts in the story are two women – the class beauty Eva, who becomes the object of desire of all three guys in turn, and the ugly Hujerova, whose ironic attitude to herself and life in general gives her the ability to survive in a world that prizes beauty and to find her own path to happiness. (forgalmazó hivatalos szövege)
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Így megy ez a hét közepén bemutatott ünnepi premierekkel... Tele van a fejed munkával, így alig minden második jelenettel érzékeltetsz egy olyan filmben mint a Dodgeball, ami határozottan nem "húzós" (és az első tíz percben azt mondod magadban, hogy "Istenem, mire hagytam magam rábeszélni?"). Természetesen a szőkékkel teli jelenetekkel - fiatalokkal és nem fiatalokkal. És ahogy telik az idő, és hiába próbálsz eligazodni a felnőtt/tini szerepek között (igazán furcsa szereposztású a férfi szereplőgárda), a zenén és az egyes melegségesen emberi jeleneteken keresztül egy furcsa, bűntudatos viszony alakul ki a filmhez. Az eszed hatalmasan védekezik, de fokozatosan enged. És a végén kiderül, hogy ez egy kedves, igénytelen kis film a hétvégi esti tévézéshez. Olyan érzés, amikor egy kiscicát simogatod. Buta, de olyan aranyos kiscicát...
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I’d had no idea I was going to enjoy Dodgeball this much. Maybe also because some users here gave the movie such bad reviews. And you know what? I actually don’t get it. What’s wrong with this movie? I’m not a big fan of Viewegh. I don’t like his books and I don’t actively seek out movies based on his books, but Dodgeball might be one of the best movies based on his books that I’ve seen so far. Suchánek, Genzer and Sokol do make for a pretty good crew and Babčáková can easily keep up with them. I do admit that the time jumps were sometimes difficult to follow, but it gradually settled down and things started making some sense. The only thing that could be criticized about this movie is that rather than a comedy it’s a melancholic drama the likes of which we’ve seen quite often recently and it usually involves somebody from the improv group Partička in the star role. Other than that, it was fun to watch. It’s clear that Petr Nikolaev is rightfully one of the Czech foremost film directors.
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Dodgeball is a chaotic jumble of random fragments from different time periods, it is humorous only sporadically and much more often it falls into sentiment and melancholy. Its sound and atmosphere are quite reminiscent of Snowdrops and Aces after 25 Years, but as if the first Snowdrops and Aces never existed. It doesn’t really hold together and breaks up into isolated scenes, some of which raise the level of the film thanks to capable actors, while others seem like parodies because of how terrible they are.
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