Catharina_Sweden
Sweden has in the last few decades accepted very many immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. This movie is partly about the culture shocks that come as a natural consequence. Although I must say the movie is very Politically Correct. The reality, when a girl from the Middle East refuses to marry the man her parents have chosen, and instead gets together with a Swede - has on many occasions been much worse than the "liberal and funny" ending of this movie...Still, a foreigner could probably learn a lot about modern Sweden from it. The atmosphere is right. There were also some funny episodes - for example the one with the dog Rambo. And some funny and likable characters - such as the Libanese middle-aged father and shop-keeper.The only character (or maybe actor) that was not just right, was Paul. He was too exaggerated as the archetypal Middle East brother, at the same time as he did not play an Arab very convincingly. He looked and sounded too European, and his accent was obviously fake.As most modern Swedish movies, "Jalla Jalla" comes through as quite low-budget and amateurish. Also, I think there was too much sex, violence and rude language in it - which is, I am afraid, also quite typical of modern Swedish movies. Still, I recommend it for light entertainment in the company of adults only!
silviopellerani
The promises were all pretty good, same producer as "Fucking Amal" and Together: Lukas Modysson, the one who is part of the newest Swedish generation of innovative of directors in Sweden; but I am afraid the final result was well far from the expectations...Josef Fares is a young director from Lebanon who wanted to develop in a funny way the already too much seen cross fertilization between different religions in Western Europe, same topic of East is East or Dreaming Beckam; this time the plot is shot in a Swedish town with two main male characters whose lives are linked by a common job. One of them, acted by Fares Fares in the role of "Roro", is the typical young man who was born in Sweden, so well adapted and completely almost "swedish" but his family is still attached to their tradition and religion, so they do not accept easily a non arrange wedding. Beside this, the film develops also a normal Swedish couple which has become in crisis, and this is shown by the impotence of the guy.There are some funny situations but the final results is poor and most of the situations are well superficial and not specifically well defined.The results is a very commercial film, poor of content and not original at all, a positive point is that is free of violence.Rating: 5/10
Steven Spielberg
The script is very weak & there is no depth in the characters. The story telling is not the importing thing here. The unnecessary action & Scenes does not really help this one. One of the worst movies in Sweden´s history of films.
Serva
Since people in Sweden hardly ever go to the movies, I can partly understand that they think this is such a funny and nice little movie. In a way, it is. If you look a bit closer however, you will see that there are a number of flaws.The script could use a whole lot more work. For some reason I can never understand, the characters start running at different parts in the film. They are spontaneously started to get chased by someone and therefore begin to run. This works fine in Warner Bros cartoons. But in a movie which remotely in any way is going to depict reality, no. Fares should have left this for his action movie that evidently is going to be his next project. The dialogue and the "funny" parts are other problems too. The comedy revolves mostly around the male reproduction organ, and the main character's dad using his big belly to ward of people he dislikes.Some of the actors are not at all convincing, I hate to say it but it adds to the amateurishness of this production. Which I can live with to a certain extent however, since it is director Josef Fares' first real movie. It's still funny at times, Tuva Novotny carries her part great, but I want much more from Fares' next action movie to not feel let down.
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