Be warned. This film is a bore making fun of people with problems, either being fat, nerdy, sexually frustrated, blond or Sweedish.
There's been very many good Norwegian movies out the last years, and therefore one might expect good things going to a new story. This film has been buzzed a lot, especially around that the novel writer Lars Ramslie almost took the filmmakers to court due to them changing the name of the film from the books title "Fatso" to "Knullegutt" ("Fu**er-boy" in English).
Well, that name might have been more appropriate, because the film is just about getting laid. And Reno is a kind of guy which is not the first a girl would look upon, to say it carefully.
Already in the start of the movie it seems obvious that this kind of humor doesn't fit me. OK, some parts are enough to rise a teeth-less smile on your face, but then the film gets more and more dull.
When it comes to Reno almost accidentally cutting his male servant off, you're so dazed by the film you really don't react in any other way than thinking "What did he do that for? Did he do it? Well, is he going to lie there?" Then realizing: You really don't care about the guy at all.
In the end Reno gets a positive message, and this saves his world, and when the film then wasn't ending, I went myself. I realize the film was only 2 minutes longer, but still... My life is too short for watching boring comedies. Hope the book is better. It has to be.
The best thing about the movie? The mid-seventies Ford Granada used by Renos "friend" Philip. Beautiful! Though they were probably making fun of this car as well, in the film...
There's been very many good Norwegian movies out the last years, and therefore one might expect good things going to a new story. This film has been buzzed a lot, especially around that the novel writer Lars Ramslie almost took the filmmakers to court due to them changing the name of the film from the books title "Fatso" to "Knullegutt" ("Fu**er-boy" in English).
Well, that name might have been more appropriate, because the film is just about getting laid. And Reno is a kind of guy which is not the first a girl would look upon, to say it carefully.
Already in the start of the movie it seems obvious that this kind of humor doesn't fit me. OK, some parts are enough to rise a teeth-less smile on your face, but then the film gets more and more dull.
When it comes to Reno almost accidentally cutting his male servant off, you're so dazed by the film you really don't react in any other way than thinking "What did he do that for? Did he do it? Well, is he going to lie there?" Then realizing: You really don't care about the guy at all.
In the end Reno gets a positive message, and this saves his world, and when the film then wasn't ending, I went myself. I realize the film was only 2 minutes longer, but still... My life is too short for watching boring comedies. Hope the book is better. It has to be.
The best thing about the movie? The mid-seventies Ford Granada used by Renos "friend" Philip. Beautiful! Though they were probably making fun of this car as well, in the film...