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After seeing the reasonably high rating on IMDB for this film, I figured I was in for a Will Ferrell comedy up there with Anchorman (which really grew on me quite a while after first seeing it), with a lot of laugh-out-loud moments. After watching it though, I feel that the high reviews must have been due to a Eurovision fan thing. I'm not really a fan of Eurovision at all so I watched this without any real investment in that aspect of the story. There were a few moments that were amusing but I felt that there was a long patch in the middle of this film that felt really un-funny and awkward to me. I was contemplating turning this off halfway though as I was embarrassed for having chosen to watch this with my family and everyone was starting to look at me and question my choice. This was sitting on a 2/10 for me but then thankfully the film picked up with some comedy highlights and better pacing toward the end. I think if this film had been trimmed to a 90 minute run time, tightening up the story, it would have been substantially better. If you were a Eurovision fan, you may have appreciated the finer details more than I did.

It's been quite a while since I've seen this film so it's not 100% fresh in my mind, however,I felt compelled to write something about it. My 9/10 is taking into account that this is an adult film and I'm rating it as such, so it's not on the same scale as The Godfather or Shawshank Redemption. I have been searching for awhile for another adult film like this one but have so far had no luck. I watched this with my wife when we had a quiet evening together and it has got to be the perfect film for an 'adult night in'. It has the feel of a mainstream film in quality and builds in intensity like a regular film should. We were drawn in to the story and the sex scenes were interspersed into the film so that it kept the momentum moving forward. Eventually the sex scenes became more hardcore and longer in duration until the ending which was a nice segue to move from the couch to the bedroom after the film was over. I enjoyed the fact that this wasn't a cheesy, comical or cliched adult film and actually kept us watching from the start to the very end of the film, just like a mainstream film, yet the sex scenes were actually hardcore like a good porn should be. Recommended for a proper adults only date night film!