Heavy Trip

Name: Heavy Trip
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: October 5, 2018
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Anssi Niemi, Antti Heikkinen, Chike Ohanwe, Johannes Holopainen, Kai Lehtinen

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Doppelganger Releasing | Release Date: October 5, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anssi Niemi, Antti Heikkinen, Chike Ohanwe, Johannes Holopainen, Kai Lehtinen, Martti Syrjä, Max Ovaska, Minka Kuustonen, Pirjo Lonka, Samuli Jaskio, Sinikka Mokkila, Torstein Bjørklund, Ville Hilska, Ville Tiihonen

Summary: Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway—the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival—and decideTuro is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway—the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival—and decide it’s now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer in order to make their dreams a reality.… Expand

Director: Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio

Genre(s): Comedy, Music

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Oct 5, 2018

A Finnish ensemble comedy about a wannabe black metal band, is probably the only film you'll see this year with a crowd-surfing corpse. Don't let the last part of that sentence dissuade you from seeing Heavy Trip: it's a real crowdpleaser. Read full review

Deborah Young

Oct 4, 2018

Part let's-get-it-together band saga and part road movie, the story arc is awfully familiar, but that doesn't stop it being a rollicking romp. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Oct 4, 2018

In their feature debut, co-writers/directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren and co-writers Aleksi Puranen and Jari Olavi Rantala reach for absurdist comedy — the reindeer-blood accident, the projectile-vomit bit, the grave-robbing incident — with a touch so light that the general nuttiness comes to seem a central (and essential) component of Finnish rural life. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Oct 4, 2018

Playing like a Nordic “This is Spinal Tap,” the Finnish import Heavy Trip, a satire about an aspiring heavy metal band’s efforts to land its first legitimate gig, proves as affably goofy as its characters. Read full review

Filipe Freitas

Feb 19, 2019

Heavy Trip is an absurdist, powerhouse folly, which feels spunky enough to honor the musical genre and comes filled with deadpan hilarity to please comedy addicts. Read full review

Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

Oct 5, 2018

As a fish-out-of-water comedy, it’s effectively funny more often than it isn’t, and as an ode to the unlikely communities that arise around black metal, it’s entirely sincere in its intentions. Read full review

Pat Brown

Oct 3, 2018

Its story distances heavy metal from any whiff of toxic masculinity by setting Turo and company against homophobes and rakes. Read full review

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Mamoon_Tayih

May 15, 2020

This movie is one big surprise. I know it might be silly giving a rating of ten but, and this is a big but, this movie deserves all the praise it gets. They managed to tick all the right boxes, the story, heavy metal vibes and the characters all blends so well! I am a Hard Rock and Metal fanThis movie is one big surprise. I know it might be silly giving a rating of ten but, and this is a big but, this movie deserves all the praise it gets. They managed to tick all the right boxes, the story, heavy metal vibes and the characters all blends so well! I am a Hard Rock and Metal fan and this movie just gave me the right dose of nostalgia and self achievement, we all wanted to be part of a band one day and just felt so thrilled for these bunch fighting to achieve their dream Watch it and you won't get disappointed.… Expand

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maestro666

Sep 12, 2019

This was insane absolutely love it. This is funny original entertaining. It was genius idea to make movie about metal band especially for metalheads

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Zurelho

Jul 28, 2020

O filme sobre musica mais imprevisível e inusitado que já vi
Symphonic post apocalyptic reindeer-grinding-Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal

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umaumai

Feb 22, 2022

This movie has reignited my love of film and how to spend a couple of hours with interesting storytelling. It had such great heart and I loved the performances. I loved the setting and how everyone really fit their character. I was really blown away at the places it took me emotionally asThis movie has reignited my love of film and how to spend a couple of hours with interesting storytelling. It had such great heart and I loved the performances. I loved the setting and how everyone really fit their character. I was really blown away at the places it took me emotionally as well as how silly it was. While somewhat grounded it borders on the absurd in a playful way. I laughed so hard at a scene that takes place in a zoo that now those images are were I’m going to go when I’m down. If you’re into music, have ever been in a band or just want to check out something familiar and at the same time somewhat foreign this was fun.… Expand

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bataguila

Feb 10, 2019

Entretenida, original, tiene un giro de tuerca muy triste, algunos buenos chistes, muy interesante ver como son esas tierras.

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