Viva Villaveien! (1989)
Viva Villa Road deals with a handful of neighbors who completely unaware manages to go to Gran Canaria at the same time. For many, this would be a nice, but for Swedish Reidar Frank (Brass Brännström), pensioner Sigurd Vatne (Sverre Hansen) and crazy Alice Lindblad (Elsa Lystad) this is the worst thing that could have occurred. After countless neighborhood feuds they all had, by coincidence, decided to travel to the Canary Islands to escape the unwanted situation of Villa Road. Therefore, the disputes continue also in the holiday paradise of the other family members' great despair. This surprisingly leads to a lot of funny episodes that contain both problems with the travel company, absurd misunderstandings and intricate entanglement that eventually tie up to a pretty successful movie.
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good back-story, and good acting
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
I usually like the Norwegian comedy's and all other Norwegian films, so I am usually very open minded and positive to it. "Viva Villaveien!" however is an abomination to all other Norwegian films. It is boring and stupid, and you will get embarrassed by watching it if you are a Norwegian.The plot of the movie is terrible like everything else, much due to the characters. Some of the actors in "Viva Villaveien!" are good in other films, but in this case they aren't any good, or very believable. You never really feel with them.The biggest problem in the film is that it's not funny. It's a comedy and it's not funny. It's not even so bad it's funny, it's just terrible.To sum up: bad characters, bad plot, bad comedy, bad film!