This movie is an insult to the best movie franchise from Sweden.
I thought since Henrik Dorsin is such a big fan of the franchise that he at least could bring some dignity to this movie, but no.
His imitations of Charles Ingvar just feels pasted and stupid. The charismatic and cool Vanheden is reduced to a cat-loving mummy's boy?
And Dynamit Harry is reduced too nothing! And the main villain Wall-Enberg who was one of the most brilliant characters of the old franchise is reduced to an old senile fool. Are they trying to mock our beloved characters?
Doris is obviously the new brain of the gang. Apparently, the filmmakers feel like they need to make Doris an
"strong go-girl"-character to make the movie more compatible to the 2020s, but man it feels wrong.
If you want to create strong female characters, for god sake, create a new franchise with new characters. Instead of forcing a strong female character at the expense of the real main characters.
To force a female character into an old franchise, is a trick they use in all remakes this day - to make the old movies more "up-to-date", but it just feels forced and the result is never well.
The old Johnson Gang was about three out-of-place characters put into our universe. They used their peculiar abilities to commit crimes together,
In this movie they don't even establish any characteristics to the characters. Harry for instance is driving the car? All fans of Jönssonligan knows that Vanheden is the driver in the gang! It just proves that the filmmakers aren't taking this task seriously.
This type of "slapstick comedy" was all made better in the 70-90s, franchises like "Sällskapsresan", "Fawlty Towers", "Naked Gun", "Mr.Bean" and the old "Jönssonligan" was all made with charm, style and cleaver humor!
However this type of movie has translated awfully into the 2000s, where the filmmakers are going into the trap of making the movie to childish, political correct, spiced with humor that feels like an insult to your intellect, and a braindead script.
Its like the moviemakers think "Hey we are making a cheese comedy, lets just fool around for a couple a months and see whats sticks on the screen". The old Jönssonligan-movies did include both slap stick and cheesy humor, but the story and characters always felt well processed. But in this movie you already in the trailer see sloopy CGI, that look fit enough for a pixar movie, and in the end all the charathers are dancing like fools to some cartoonish music? That is so far from the original Jönssonligan, that was a perfect mix of action, humor, slapstick mixed with a thriller feeling.
Let this be the last Jönssonligan-movie, stop destroying the legacy of the best movies ever produced in Sweden.
Really bad movie, a solid 1 of 10.
