If you have seen the old Jönssonligan movies from the 1980s, this movie will leave you with a bad feeling. They have completely demolished the excentric and loveable characters of Dynamit-Harry and Vanheden to opaque nothing-characters, and made Doris into a complete different person with absolutely no resemblance to and none of the charm and humour of Birgitta Andersson's original. They start the movie by crediting the original four actors ("To Björn, Birgitta, Gösta och Ulf"), but by the end of the movie this "tribute" seems more like a mockery, since they threw everything their predecessors had done into the garbage bin. The only character that relates to the original in some way is Henrik Dorsin's Sickan. The other characters frankly seem to be there just to fill out the space around Sickan. It makes you wonder why they did this into a Jönssonligan-film at all, and not just a completely new film.
On top of this, the script isn't great, there are way too many characters and way too many loose ends just left hanging. There's also an almost complete lack of humor throughout the film, that almost becomes distressing.
The (only) highlights of the movie are found in the retro feeling of the sets and in Lena Olin's and particularly Reine Brynolfsson's acting as the criminal couple Anita and Televinken. But that is far from enough to compensate for the ill-doings of the rest of the film.
On top of this, the script isn't great, there are way too many characters and way too many loose ends just left hanging. There's also an almost complete lack of humor throughout the film, that almost becomes distressing.
The (only) highlights of the movie are found in the retro feeling of the sets and in Lena Olin's and particularly Reine Brynolfsson's acting as the criminal couple Anita and Televinken. But that is far from enough to compensate for the ill-doings of the rest of the film.