Heavy trip

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Movie
German title Heavy trip
Original title Hevi reissu
Country of production Finland , Norway
original language Finnish , English , Norwegian
Publishing year 2018
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Juuso Laatio ,
Jukka Vidgren
script Juuso Laatio,
Aleksi Puranen ,
Jari Olavi Rantala ,
Jukka Vidgren
production Kaarle Aho ,
Kai Nordberg
music Lauri Porra
camera Harri Räty
cut Kimmo Taavila
occupation

Heavy Trip is a Finnish comedy film from 2018. It is the first feature- length film by directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren .

action

The friends Turo, Lotvonen, Pasi and Jynkky live in the Finnish village of Taivalkoski. They have an unnamed band with whom they have been playing songs from metal bands in the basement of Lotvonen's parents for 12 years - they don't have their own songs and they have never performed live. In the village they are notorious as losers, and with the village beauty Miia, the shy Turo, full-time nurse in a psychiatric institution, has no chance against the regular punk singer Jouni.

Lotvonen's parents run a reindeer farm, which is also slaughtered. The sound of a blocked bone saw inspires the four to write their first own song, which they record on cassette . A customer of Lotvonen's parents, who is looking for reindeer blood, turns out to be the manager of the Norwegian metal festival "Northern Damnation". The band slips him the demo cassette and asks him to take it into account when putting together the line-up. The band has now also given itself a name: "Impaled Rektum", in German something like "Pfählter Buttern". To impress Miia, Turo tells her about a possible upcoming performance at the Norwegian festival, which she spreads around in the village, whereupon the four band members are suddenly adored like stars. Instead of informing the village population that they have not yet been accepted for the festival, Turo sticks to the version distributed by Miia out of embarrassment and invents further details. The first live appearance in the village pub as the opening act for Jouni quickly bursts the bubble of fame again: Turo vomits into the audience from nervousness, and it turns out that the festival is not interested in a performance by the band. Turo wants to give up his hobby of music, but Jynkky and Miia encourage him to go to the festival in Norway on their own with the rest of the band to force a performance.

Jynkky steals a vehicle on the way to Norway, but has a fatal accident on the way home. The rest of the band steal Jouni's tour bus, dig up and load Jynkky's coffin, kidnap drumming patient Oula from the psychiatric clinic where Turo works, and head to the festival. Mia's father, who is the village policeman in Taivalkoski, sets out to track down the bus with Jouni and Miia. They inform the Norwegian border authorities that terrorists are on their way, but the border guards mistake the band for a bus full of men dressed as Arabs on a bachelorette party. Chased by the Finnish police and the Norwegian military, the band members finally reach the festival, where they are allowed to perform because of their reputation for being drummers kidnapping grave robbers that almost sparked a war between Finland and Norway. At the end of their performance, they are arrested but happy to have achieved their goal.

History of origin

The two directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, who wrote the script together with two other authors, were previously primarily involved in the production of music videos and had made a short film together. Vidgren was part of the action thriller team Wer ist Hanna? worked as a driver between the Finnish locations. Heavy Trip was the first feature film for both directors . They named the films This Is Spinal Tap and Blues Brothers and the television series The Simpsons as influences . With a budget of 3,100,000 euros, it was the most expensive Finnish comedy at the time of publication. The working title of the film was Bändi nimeltä Impaled Rektum (in German about a band called Impaled Rektum ). Part of the filming took place in the northeast Finnish village of Taivalkoski . The soundtrack was composed by Lauri Porra , the bassist of the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius .

Heavy Trip premiered in Finnish cinemas on March 9, 2018. In the same year, the film was shown at the US SXSW Film Festival , the Romanian Transilvania International Film Festival , the Scandinavian Film Festival in seven Australian cities, the German Fantasy Film Festival and the Norwegian music festival Inferno Metal Festival .

reception

Ratings
Film-Rezensions.de 4/5
Metal.de 9/10
Slash film 8/10
Meta-ratings
Rotten tomatoes 92%

Heavy Trip received almost exclusively positive reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes review database aggregates 12 reviews to a rating of 92%. The Hollywood Reporter calls the film an "exuberant scramble", the story of which is predictable, but will not disappoint metal fans. The Austin Chronicle describes the film as an "upcoming cult classic", which with its weird humor is reminiscent of Taika Waititi's early work and skillfully serves its target audience, namely metal fans, but also serves its own claim to be an epic work , fail. Slashfilm pointed out that the setting of the film followed classic motifs, namely the portrayal of outsiders who give everything to live their dream. Heavy Trip is so full of crazy ideas and allusions that the result of the film is "a barbaric attack on the laughing muscles, which (was) made to be shown in the sold-out halls of Valhalla in front of a crowd of head- banging savages" . The magazine made comparisons to the New Zealand horror comedy Deathgasm and praised the authenticity of the film music and its performance by the actors. The Finnish state radio station Yleisradio compared the story of the fictional band Impaled Rektum with that of the Finnish death metal band Sentenced , which, coming from a small town of 9,000, also took years to break through. Film-Rezensions.de criticized that the story of the film is not really getting going because gags are repeated or drawn out and the authors run out of ideas for the continuation of the story in between. But it is still a "nice title" that "shifts up a few gears" towards the end. The music magazine Metal.de saw in Heavy Trip first and foremost a “good scene parody”, which every metal fan who can laugh at himself would have fun. Serious issues such as the lack of prospects for young people in rural Finland are also taken up with humor. The magazine praised the film music, but criticized the bumpy and sometimes absurd sections of the plot, which did not prevent the film "as a whole (...) from creating a pleasantly warm feeling in the pit of the stomach" and conveying its message well.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Heavy Trip . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 181064 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ FlickeringMyth.com: SXSW Exclusive Interview - Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren, Johannes Holopainen and Ville Tiihonen discuss Heavy Trip. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Yle.fi: Pohjoisen pitkätukat inspiroivat Suomen kalleimman komedian - valkokankaalla toilailevan Impaled Rektumin juuret ovat syvällä ikiroudassa. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Koillissanomat.fi: Hevi reissun ensi-ilta katsottiin Taivalkoskella - Vauhdikas komedia sai kutsuvierasyleisön nauramaan ( Memento from September 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Film-Rezensions.de: Heavy Trip. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Metal.de: Heavy Trip: The film review for metal comedy. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b Slashfilm.com: 'Heavy Trip' is the Wild and Crazy Heavy Metal Comedy You Need in Your Life. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b RottenTomatoes.com: Heavy Trip. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  9. ↑ HollywoodReporter.com: 'Heavy Trip' ('Hevi Reissu'): Film Review. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  10. ↑ AustinChronicle.com: SXSW Film Review: Heavy trip. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .