Zapada, Ceai si Dragoste

One of the worst Romanian comedies I have seen. Everything regarding the script, plot and acting is very bad. There are some great actors in this movie and even their cameos are bad (not talking about the main cast)

I think the dialog was worst than the acting. The iddeea was nice but it was horrible scripted, sad because as I saw there were a lot of public persons involved and the buget was suficient to have good shooting locations.

Most of the actors are not actors, but local "celebrities" cast at random. They have no clue about acting and that shows from scene 1.

The lines are awful, the jokes all follow the same high-school-kid-butchers-Tarantino format. It's also annoying to see all dialogue escalading abruptly and absurdly into extreme anger over the most unrealistic crap. Don't think this is some nicely executed absurd art film -- it's just lazy writing.

The characters are caricatures and completely unrealistic. I get that this wants to pastiche the genre, but that doesn't come across at all.

It's not a parody at anything, though it probably wants to be. It's one of the most forgettable comedies you cold watch.

Don't be fooled by the almost-passable first 5 minutes, where (depending on mood) you may come close to almost laughing.

This is bad as bad gets. You'll be sorry to waste 2 hours watching it. You're much better off browsing YouTube shorts mindlessly, the amateur humor in there is miles above this. That's saying a lot.

Finally a Romanian movie who is not a long depressive self pity drama only aimed to win a stupid award at Berlin or Certain Regard. It's not good but it's trying to get out from the so called "intellectual" movie making. Yes, the acting is bad but some of them are not actually actors but musicians and TV hosts. I think they had some fun. I think it can open the road for other Romanian commercial comedies. For a foreigner it means nothing. All the references are too local. But they tried. Even copying some scenes from other movies gave a bit of a different flavor to a film industry which is dry of humor.

My expectations have been exceeded. In my opinion, this film is one of the most successful Romanian comedies in recent years. Despite the piped dialogues (which in fact largely reflect the reality of Romania at the moment) the script is very well developed, good story, interpretation of grade 10.