Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Inmechon The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Red-125 The Swedish film En underbar jävla jul was shown in the U.S. with the title Holy Mess (2015). (If you go to Google Translate, you'll learn that the original Swedish title is quite a bit more colorful. "Jul" in this context means "Yule.") The movie was co-written and directed by Helena Bergström. Bergström also plays a supporting role.This is an ensemble film, in which a dozen people gather together at the home of a gay couple for Christmas Eve. Once you know that, you can pretty much predict the plot-- homophobic parents, an aging grandmother, a surrogate mother, etc. In a movie like this, success or failure depends on the quality of the acting. These actors are very talented and capable. In fact, they are so good that I won't try to single out any of them for special praise. Not only is each actor competent, but they play well in ensemble. This film has a terrible 5.8 IMDb rating. It's not a great film, but it's much better than that. We saw this movie at the excellent Little Theatre, as part of the wonderful ImageOut Rochester LGBT Film Festival. It will also work well on the small screen.A Holy Mess is one of 22 films that had their New York State premiere, or their East Coast premiere, at ImageOut. My compliments to the ImageOut Programming Committee for their great success in bringing these films to Rochester.

ad-15634 A good test of a "comedic" film is the laughter engendered in an audience. I have endured too many supposed comedies, where I have continually thought, "This isn't at all funny." I saw this film at a festival showing with about 900 people in the audience. Although the laughter was not constant, there were many, many occasions during the film, when one could not hear the lines of the actors, because there was such prolonged uproarious laughter in response to the preceding dialogue. I personally haven't laughed so much at film in a very long time.It is a very charming Christmas story, featuring a very unusual (to an American) Christmas celebration involving extended families of two young gay men meeting for the first time. The acting is of the highest caliber. There are some pratfalls, but if they are humorous, it is not because someone slipped on a banana peel, but the circumstances leading up to the slip. Most of the humor is from the lines of the actors. Although the ending is predictable and perhaps formulaic, no audience would expect it to end a tragically, and comedy continues to the end.

pjobson-16340 I think our two reviewers are a bit harsh. Yes, the film portrays some stereotypical attitudes. Yes, Ulf, is seemingly that stereotypical homophobic character. But, Ulf does have a point, as seen through the prism of his conservative upbringing and his legalistic training. The performance of Maria Lundqvist is outstanding. Coming from Australia, and not Au fait with Scandinavian cinema and actors, I thought hers as Monica was superb. Yes, it did get a bit schmaltzy, but, hey, this is Xmas time: how many Hollywood films cover this territory? It is a Universal sentiment, and, if it is encompassing of the "gay" community. why not? I did shed a tear. And in my book, any film that makes a 66 year old cry, has something going for it!!!!

exquisite-2 This Movie seems to proclaim to be a comedy, in fact it's a highly PC-driven drama with a lot of comedic reliefs (in the PC category of course, what else).The movie starts out in the typical Swedish no-nonsense slam the PC stereotype into the viewers face kind of way, by having a Swedish couple acting "racist" towards the Hotel cleaner and then trying to excuse themselves in typical Swedish stereotype fashion. This is pretty much how the whole film is executed whenever it touches a subject (usually trying to break up open door since 15 years back instead of taking up real stigmas and problems of today).The movie is so sub-par that I don't really feel it's necessary to talk about the lacking acting skills of Anton Lundqvist playing the son of Robert Gustavsson's character or the facts that it was out of sync on several occasions making it look like a dubbed movie.For any non-Swedish viewer out there I would compare it to watching 1984 and at the same time knowing that what is depicted in front of you is a true mirroring of Swedish society of today.