Another round of should this stay in the collection? The answer is no.
I must admit that I don´t have a lot of relation to this franchise, I haven´t watch a lot of the previous movies and to learn how many of them there are scares me since they are really mediocre to bad. This movie really tires too many things for no reason and thinks it´s a really clever movie trying to make everything come together at the end but really it´s just a huge mess and fells like a first draft, top that off with some questionable morals and ideas and you have an absurd comedy that isn't absurd enough but warbles between begin a million different things and having 3 different tones
After becoming a firefighter, Viktor is happy with his life, but he is becoming a father together with Anja and in order to pursue her carrier, Victor has to give up his dream and become a stay at home dad.
So I have more or less only seen the first movie in this franchise and if I have seen any of the others I don´t remember a single thing other than the next in the franchise I think. I don´t know if this movie would make more sense if I watched any of the previous movies but I just assume it won´t add much, but what do I know maybe I´m wrong.
This movie can feel like such a fever dream, tackling some real problems and feelings and having some grounded in reality moments, but then it´s comedy comes in and makes everything so absurd and bizarre to a point, where I was not sure if this movie was meta or not. So many jokes are delivered and so many absurd things are happening that makes no sense in the context of this movie, for more than one reason to be fair, but the tone of this movie is probably the part that disconnects me the most from it, since it doesn't really know what it wants to be at any time.
From a grounded talk about fatherhood and responsibility, to naked guys firing AK-47´s and being shoot out of a canon, these two things happen and they don´t mix.
The humour is swinging in quality and the beforementioned absurd nature of the movie makes it unintentionally more funny. Once again I´m not sure if they were going for that but the fact that I´m not sure says everything. The humour works for me for the most part but other parts not. The more clean jokes work better for me than the womanizing and boomer humour but that´s a personal preference.
The other big problem with this movie is that it drags. It starts out completely fine and after maybe 20 minutes I thought the movie was already coming to a close since it´s central conflict were more or less ending, but then it kept going, and going adding more plotlines and unnecessary characters, only to actually getting a pretty boring plot towards the end even "trying" to connect all the plotlines at the end to make them feel like they mattered. It feels more like they had 5 concepts for this movie and ended up frankensteinning them together in order to make an absolute plotless movie.
The movie has some interesting problems it wants to tackle, but to me, has some questionable morals as answers. The big point is having a man giving up his life in other to take care for a baby instead of the woman and how that affects stereotypical gender roles, at least in Denmark. So what is the moral? Well that the man feels overlooked and want things to be more stereotypical, or is it? The morals are so fluffy and it doesn't really want to tackle the morals it brought up itself.
If you are not sure what you want to say in a movie, just don´t mention it. It makes you look more competent than you actually trying to make a statement
The score is also the most generic, awful, stucksounding mess I´ve heard in a while.
This movie is not completely awful in my opinion, it has some good heart and some good humour at times, being entertaining at best, but trying to make a point or story it´s awful at and that made me just not care about anything at the end. It´s a huge mess that should have been so much simpler.
The comedy is a stable of the Danish film industry it´s a cornerstone that always has it´s place, but knowing how many of these there are and how poor the quality can be, it´s here where selection should have made it so that this franchise died long ago.
