Jönssonligan kommer tillbaka

The business of remakes is a very sensitive one. Especially when taking on a franchise that a great deal of the audience really cherish.

The best thing would no doubt be to time travel back to the 1980's and record more stories about Jönssonligan with the original cast and writers. But the lack of time machines makes this film the very best alternative.

The previous attempts from 2015 (Den Perfekta Stöten) and 2020 (Se Upp För) to revive Jönssonligan may have made this film project even more sensitive and risky. But with a great cast, script and a heist worthy of the band, this is clearly a setup that can be built upon in future films. And hopefully will be.

Robert Gustavsson has kept many of the ticks and manners of "Sickan" from his predecessor, but still manage to balance it with his own interpretation not to fall into an act of pure imitation. Same goes for Jonas Karlsson as Vanheden, and Anders Jansson as Dynamit-Harry.

The hardest part both to write for and to portray, is of course Doris. She is furthest away from the original character, which in a way is understandable as the 1980's Doris is quite frankly very stupid. A feature that - no matter how comic and entertaining - is not allowed on female characters in the 2020's. The writers and actress Jennie Silfverhielm does however make the absolute best of it, making Doris a bit sharper, but still comic and adorable. She is still "en underbar människa!" If you loved the original 1980's films, you will definetly like this one.

Well, a bit slow the third act. But hey, this is so much better than anticipated. Great script, funny, weird, lively, nuanced, I just loved it. Jonas Karlsson is great (as always) but so is the rest of the cast. Stylish, fast paced, witty.

For me, this reminds me of the old ones. Childish and playful but surely for adults. Robert Gustavsson is not the best actor but here - he reminds me a lot of Gösta Ekman.

The nod to the danish original is fun. My girlfriend chooses this on our kid-free Friday and it was a treat.

Also good music and great costume and set. And there is a bit of romance too, that is a bonus.

After all the earlier failed attempts to reboot and reimagine Jönssonligan, i finally thought that they were on the right path this time with a version that seemed close to the original. And with Robert Gustafsson as "Sickan" - who's got a lot of similarities to Gösta Ekman - how could they fail? Well, they did.

A big thing with the original cast were the kookiness and charm of each character. They were all funny in their own way. But in this movie "Sickan" is the only one who's trying to be funny, but even he falls short ..literally, since some light slap-stick were the only comedy present. The rest of the cast is just there delivering unfunny and often very cringe lines. The writer obviously have a solid list of comedic experience, but he didn't manage to implement any of it in this movie?

One painfully apparent thing about Swedish comedy is the implementation of unnecessary English words and swearing. Is that suppose to be funny and/or modern? Did someone actually use the English word "gun" for some reason?

All in all, "Jönssonligan Kommer Tillbaka" had the opportunity to be a solid return to old form, but they totally forgot the part about being funny.

I enjoyed the movie a lot. It's definitely a lot better than the total joke of a Jönsonnligan movie that came out in 2020. Robert Gustafsson does an incredible job when playing Sickan. He's got the same vibe as Gösta Ekman did back in the days, which I enjoyed a lot.

As for the movie, the plot is good and feels more like the original films than the last reboot from 2020. I did feel that the movie was a bit too fast paced, at least during the first half of the film, but the story is still good and includes a fair amount of witty Jönssonligan comedy.

So, overall, very enjoyable movie which strongly resembles the original movies but in a modern setting. A little bit too fast paced but still good. 7/10. Recommend it!

Sickan and Wall-Enberg were the only characters that somewhat resembled their original counterparts from Jönssonligan.

Dynamit-Harry, Vanheden, and Doris felt overplayed and exaggerated, losing the charm and personality that made them beloved in the classic films. Doris was never as involved in the heists as she is here, which felt out of place. Vanheden was completely rewritten into an unrecognizable and unenjoyable character. Dynamit-Harry, known for his clumsy, carefree nature, was turned into an action-driven, alert character-far from how we remember him. Doris, once warm-hearted, is now aggressive, pushy, and irritating.

The movie's pacing was uneven-some scenes felt rushed, while others seemed stretched just to pad the runtime. At times, the script appeared to lack content.

The police characters had a Beck-like tone but leaned too much into forced humor, missing the comedic style of previous Jönssonligan films.

While it was a respectable attempt, the drastic character changes made little sense, even considering the time gap since the last film. It's understandable that characters evolve, but the transformation here was too extreme.

It's a modern production, but it's so overproduced that it loses the nostalgic feeling that those of us who grew up with the originals cherished.