The hundred and one year old who didn't pay the bill and disappeared

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Movie
German title The hundred and one year old who didn't pay the bill and disappeared
Original title Hundraettåringen as smet from notan and försvann
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 2016
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Felix Herngren ,
Måns Herngren
script Felix Herngren,
Hans Ingemansson ,
Jonas Jonasson
production Malte Forssell
music Matti Bye
camera Goran Hallberg
cut Hendrik Källberg
occupation

The hundred and one year old who didn't pay the bill and disappeared (original title: Hundraettåringen som smet från notan och försvann ) is a Swedish comedy film by Felix Herngren and Måns Herngren from 2016 . The film is a sequel to The Centennial Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared , which is no longer based on a book. The cinema release in Scandinavia was on December 25, 2016, in Germany on March 16, 2017.

action

After a year in Bali , the protagonists from the first part almost ran out of money. When Allan Karlsson celebrates his 101st birthday, his little monkey Erlander finds an old bottle of folk soda in Allan's junk . Benny's friend Miriam and Julius are enthusiastic about the lemonade, of which there is only this one bottle. Allan says that the tasty drink was created by accident in a laboratory fire during his Russian spying activities. During the Cold War , it was seen as a threat to the US beverage industry as it could have ousted Coca-Cola and Pepsi from the world market. He had hidden the recipe in a cigar box that was with Herbert Einstein's widow in Berlin . Julius believes that you can still earn a lot of money with it and sets off to Berlin with Allan, Erlander and Geddan. They don't pay the hotel.

Meanwhile, a video of Erlander finishing the soda bottle has appeared on YouTube and is seen by Kristina, the daughter of the agent Popov. When she had to leave the Soviet Union because of the transatlantic lemonade crisis, he had told her when she parted that if anything happened to him, Allan would give her the recipe; Popov was killed on the run with Allan. Kristina recognizes Allan in the video and goes on a search with her therapist because she feels betrayed by him.

Erlander escapes from his travel bag on the plane and causes chaos, so that the plane has to make an emergency landing in Moscow . A flight attendant told her friend, gangster Baz of all people, who followed Allan's trail. Kristina fetches Erlander from the police quarantine station, then her therapist negotiates an exchange of the monkey for the prescription in the hotel. Shortly before the secret meeting, Erlander fiddled with a bottle of champagne, and the therapist was fatally hit in the throat by the cork shooting out. The monkey ends up with Allan again, and the group, which Kristina joins without revealing her identity, continues her journey first by train and, after another attack, with a stolen van.

Benny has meanwhile returned to Sweden with Miriam. You have moved into a dilapidated clubhouse in Sweden and are researching the lemonade on the internet because Miriam is obsessed with this drink. With the popular soda recipe still considered a national threat, the search engine operator alerts the CIA and two CIA agents report to the Swedish police . The incompetent officer Magnusson is assigned to them as a contact.

In Berlin, Allan is seduced anew by his former lover, while Julius and Kristina look for the cigar box. While knocking on the walls, they break into the neighboring apartment where Allan once lived. There Allan remembers his secret hiding place and also finds a cigar box, which only contains cigars. Only now does Allan remember that he had another cigar box that he left behind in the nursing home. There they learn that Benny has picked up all of Allan's old stuff in the hope of more folk soda supplies. When the CIA announces itself to Benny, he panic and brings the last remaining money in the shed to safety.

Allan's group immediately drives to Benny, who has just started a fire for warm bath water with Allan's old things, including the cigar box. Julius can just save the box from the flames and actually finds the recipe in it on a microfilm . Allan recognizes Kristina and gives her the recipe along with the film reader. At that moment the CIA agents arrive, followed by Baz. Baz threatens everyone with a gun and a hand grenade and demands the 50 million return. Since the money is no longer there, he is given the microfilm device, with which he immediately falls into a shaft, where his hand grenade explodes and destroys the microfilm. The CIA agents arrest Geddan to prove a success and take him to Guantánamo . When Allan later wants to go into the pool with Julius, Julius sees that Allan has a copy of the recipe as a tattoo on his buttocks.

In the final scene, some time later, Allan holds Miriam and Benny's little son, who is also called Allan, on his lap while his friends are busy making popular soda according to the barely legible recipe. Something is still missing, but then a thunderstorm approaches and lightning strikes the test boiler.

criticism

The film received poor ratings. Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts believes that the film is “a predominantly lukewarm infusion of the original story”. The directors would add "a few entertaining and snappy tips", but they couldn't come close to the "satirical force of the original". Kathrin Horster from the Stuttgarter Zeitung thinks that the continuation lacks momentum and originality. The directors had "the numerous ramifications of the story not under control".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Hundred and One Year Old Who Did n't Pay the Bill and Disappeared . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age label for The Hundred and One Year Old Who Did n't Pay the Bill and Disappeared . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Film review on Filmstarts.de, accessed on April 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ The swift continuation of the senior spectacle Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, March 15, 2017.