"I'm ashamed as a dog!"

Director Tomas Alfredson apologized to the cinema audience when it became clear that his intended Christmas Day premiere, as a result of current corona restrictions, would go straight to streaming on Cmore.

You can understand his disappointment,

but for the average person it probably does not matter much.

They do not have to leave the couch and actually save a lot of money - as you know, it is not completely cheap to take the whole family to the cinema.

Well, it's just a movie, but if more companies were to let their movies go directly to VOD (like Warner Bros. in the US), it would of course be a real threat to the cinema industry.

The Jönsson League was once

a pilsner film-like affair that was probably most appreciated by children, then came the Little Jönsson League - which was a bit confusing because it was also aimed at children.

In 2015, an attempt was made to give the concept a (slightly) more adult appeal, but it went like this, and now we have gone round and round, to a fundamental reboot.

The childishness remains, but the bush has been replaced by a slightly more ingenious comedy, with a lighter screw.

In this way, this is the best Jönsson league so far.

Which in itself does not say much.

Just like in the first Swedish edition

, the league is made by some of the most popular comedians and entertainers of our time, Anders "Ankan" Johansson is Vanheden, David Sundin Dynamit-Harry, Hedda Stiernstedt makes Harry's wife Doris - and then Henrik Dorsin who gives his version of Sickan a fan by John Cleese.  

Tomas Alfredson's name and reputation have attracted many of the country's finest actors, also to the supporting roles: Anders Mossling, Lena Olin, Lennart Hjulström, Reine Brynolfsson and many more, as well as an incredibly entertaining Marie Göranzon, who plays mother Vanheden in a half-foam mother-father- child dynamics from Lars Norén country.

Göranzon has quite rightly been nominated

for this manipulative martyr mother.

Other side intrigues work worse, such as Doris and Dynamit-Harry's everyday life, which mostly becomes a stumbling block in a film that is a little too long (just over two hours) for its own good.

But there are also, as it should be, a lot of ingenious details, small exciting stunts and an intricate plan that leads to a Franz Jaeger.


Watch out for the Jönsson League has received multi-million support from the Swedish Film Institute, so there is a lot of tax money that indirectly goes to Cmore (which is itself owned by partly state-owned Telia, so here is a kind of economic circle movement).

Shameless!

Many people think so, but if you look at it soberly, that is actually what film politics looks like, even in non-pandemic times.

Then it is instead the cinema owner Filmstaden

who pulls in the money for the films, and it is a company owned by American AMC, which in turn is owned by Chinese Dalian Wanda.

Wondering if they have their money in a Franz Jaeger?