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Pienen pohjoisen kylän oma poika Turo, ei välitä kiekosta tai autojen rassaamisesta: vapaa-ajallaan hän on seudun kovimman metalliyhtyeen laulaja. Yllättävien sattumusten kautta Turolle ja hänen bändikavereilleen tarjoutuu kaikkien aikojen tilaisuus päästä pois kotikulmilta ja nousta isoille lavoille. Tiedossa on hevi reissu! Uutinen leviää kuin kulovalkea ja koko kylä riemuitsee poikien puolesta, mutta matkaan ei tietenkään päästä noin vain. Turon sydämen pistää sekaisin kukkakaupan ihana Miia, josta myös kylän kuuluisuus, lipevä iskelmätähti ja Turon arkkivihollinen Jouni Tulkku on kiinnostunut. Turon on voitettava monta vastoinkäymistä aina omasta lavakammostaan Norjan asevoimiin ja Valhallan viikinkeihin asti todistaakseen olevansa sanojensa mittainen mies ja toteuttaakseen omat ja ystäviensä unelmat.

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Heavy Trip 's heartfelt humor and fully realized characters make this a journey well worth taking - and one of the best rock comedies in recent memory.

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“ Heavy   Trip ,” 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. 

Granted, many of the film’s jokes are at the expense of the small-town residents of Taivalkoski, a little Finnish burg where reindeer meat is sold and the slur “homo” is regrettably used to put down outcasts. Painfully shy metalhead Turo ( Johannes Holopainen ) is one such misfit: he and his band—later named “Impaled Rektum”—have been practicing for 12 years, but have never performed live once. That all changes when the Rektum bump into the director of a Norwegian metal festival. Their ensuing hero’s journey-style story is a heart-felt and surprisingly well-timed comedy with just enough self-deprecating humor to make even the most shop-worn cliches work. “ Heavy   Trip ” is a feel-good comedy about the members of a subculture that simultaneously embraces and pokes fun of its subjects. 

You don’t even have to enjoy  heavy  metal music to like “ Heavy   Trip ,” though it definitely helps. Turo and his band are good at what they do: Turo’s singing voice sounds like a possessed diesel engine; drummer Jynnky ( Antti Heikkinen ) keeps time even when he’s choking on his food; guitarist Lotvonen ( Samuli Jaskio ) shreds his instrument as quickly and as gracefully as a free-falling rollercoaster cart; and bassist Pasi ( Max Ovaska ) gives such a solid, low-thrumming foundation to the group’s glass-shattering music that he makes even goofy KISS-style ghost paint and nail-studded bracelets seem like reasonable fashion choices. 

You can tell that these guys are serious about what they do just from the way that they solemnly talk about metal. Thankfully, their passion is never really the butt of the film’s jokes. Sure, Pasi, a part-time librarian, recommends Uruguayan grindcore metal to two unsuspecting patrons who only want to hear Justin Bieber’s latest record. And yes, Pasi’s fellow band-mates are the kind of guys who have starry-eyed conversations about what their band should be called–“Fetal Death.” “Let’s not get small children involved in this”—while they push Jynnky’s broken down van. Pasi also quotes former Black Sabbath frontman Ronnie James Dio with grave earnest-ness and can recall the opening chords to all his favorite songs by Pantera, Children of Bodom, and Mors Subita. Turo means it when he says “This music is our thing. Other guys can play hockey and drive around chasing pussy. We play metal.” And Holopainen’s apparent sincerity and conviction makes you want to overlook the wounded macho pride inherent in his second sentence. He convinces you that Turo’s crass declaration makes sense in his world, a place where he and his friends are credible under-dogs.

Co-directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren and their three co-writers’ rare sensitivity and knack for comic timing makes Turo and his group’s generally familiar story arc—Impaled Rektum’s Norway gig gives them an immediate ego boost, but they become so overwhelmed with their imminent success that they cause an international incident involving a stolen van and an illegally exhumed corpse—that much more convincing. You can see some plot twists coming, just as you can tell that Turo will inevitably overcome his timidity and show local florist Miia ( Minka Kuustonen ) how he feels about her. 

But Laatio, Vidgren, and the gang deserve major credit for nailing their scenario’s most predictable elements. They spin things out until eventually, you start to wonder why you’re watching the Swedish border patrol attack a “Jesus and the disciples”-themedbachelor party. Thankfully, even this shaggy dog-style scenario pays off. Twice. Laatio and Vidgren are so good at establishing their film’s internal logic that it’s even hard to find fault with their most seemingly chauvinistic, bro-y jokes, like when Jynnky’s reindeer-slaying dad tells Impaled Rektum’s members that “The meaning of life is like a clitoris: you move around it, but you can never be sure you’ve found it.” That joke may seem icky, but it’s not finished until Jynnky’s mom adds “You haven’t.” 

Likewise, a fratguy-worthy paraphrase of “ The Blues Brothers “—”We’re on a mission from Satan”—isn’t over until a Swedish border patrolwoman says “Listen, I love Satan as much as any woman in their 40s. But you’re coming up for interrogation right this moment.” The rest of the film’s jokes are similarly raunchy, but never in a mean-spirited way (Just wait ’til you see how Turo ultimately deals with being called a “Homo”). That spirit of inclusivity makes “ Heavy Trip ” a cult hit waiting in the wings. Come for the brutal music, stay for the charming DIY optimism.

Simon Abrams

Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in  The New York Times ,  Vanity Fair ,  The Village Voice,  and elsewhere.

• Minka Kuustonen as Miia
• Chike Ohanwe as Oula
• Johannes Holopainen as Turo Moilanen
• Samuli Jaskio as Lotvonen
• Antti Heikkinen as Jynkky
• Ville Tiihonen as Jouni Tulkku
• Max Ovaska as Pasi / Xytrax
• Aleksi Puranen
• Jukka Vidgren
• Juuso Laatio

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• After years of playing songs by other artists, the opportunity of a concert in Norway encourages a metal band to compose their own material, but not before overcoming some unexpected difficulties.
• Turo (25) is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking heaven and an armed conflict between Finland and Norway.
• In this offbeat comedy from Finland, 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 band mates 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. — Doppelgänger Releasing

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'Heavy Trip' Is The Wild And Crazy Heavy Metal Comedy You Need In Your Life [SXSW]

Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren 's Heavy Trip blast-beats a warrior's drum for road-trippin' comedics and heavy metal odysseys. This is a story of companionship bonded by outsider dismissal; a blossoming "Symphonic Post-Apocalyptic Reindeer-Grinding Christ-Abusing Extreme War Pagan Fennoscandian" metal band ready to break from their basement shackles. Laatio and Vidgren respect Nordic brands of face-melting musicianship rooted in mythology and "crappy fantasy novels" as Deathgasm does, except with a more Anchorman approach (animal fights, national crises, etc). To quote Jason Lei Howden's equally amplified metal adventure, this hilarious endeavor isn't just brutal – it's "brutal as f***!" Johannes Holopainen stars as Turo Moilanen, a Finnish metalhead who leads his cover band as its hair-windmill vocalist. There's also fret shredder Lotvonen ( Samuli Jaskio ), bassist/human encyclopedia Pasi ( Max Ovaska ) and blistering percussionist Jynkyy ( Antti Heikkinen ). Forever connected by a love of all music heavy and loud, they use Lotvonen's family-owned reindeer slaughterhouse property to practice. Day after day, night after night, they honor the metal gods of Dio and Diamond through replication, but their dreams beg for fame on a higher level. After fiddling with intonation and style, their first one-song demo is recorded. Thus begins their epic quest to play at Northern Damnation, a Norwegian metal festival that could change everything – if "Impaled Rektum" (their decided name) can get noticed, booked and given a chance.

With pride in mind, Heavy Trip is an ode to the unaccomplished dreamers. Impaled Rektum is made of butchers (Lotvonen) and librarians (Pasi) who sacrifice everything to live a life fulfilled. It's such a commonplace theme throughout cinema, but Laatio and Vidgren exuberantly express motivation backed by amp-quaking sonic breakdowns. The kind of stuff you'd crank through earbuds to get souped-up for a gym session. Adversity awaits around every corner – booking agents, hecklers, monetary hurdles – but nothing stops blind ambition. Not even an almost  all-out war on the Finnish/Norwegian border (top-notch gag creation).

Impaled Rektum wins adoring fans through their first-time-fumbles charisma. These guys are every bedroom poster you've ever imagined from Turo's graphic logo tees to Pasi's transformation into corpse-painted, shoulder-spiked "Xytrax," but they behave without the accomplished cool of their idols. Lotvonen can't even churn an original riff when the boys first try to write a song, Pasi is quick to name the exact group Lotvonen is unknowingly mimicking (your Panteras or Eviscerated whatevers). Their collective immaturity and inexperience makes for an eager, devil-may-care band whose first on-stage experience is an epic failure (to Pasi's delight, because how metal is that), and that's the kind of lovable kinship you can expect. Underdogs you root for, legendary in their foolishness.

Heavy Trip plucks a ballad for the weirdos and misfits, frequenting insults like "homo" every time Turo gets heckled by bar bros or mustachioed lounge singer Jouni Tulkku (Ville Tiihonen). Mockery spans their "girly" haircuts to tight leathery garb to satanic undertones, but it's not just slurs for the sake of indecency. Impaled Rektum takes their lashings to the point of being laughed out of town, until Turo has a fantastic "EFF YOU" moment that involves his dudebro harasser and a confident kiss (his "manliest" response). For a European film that throws around derogatory jabs without restraint, the payoff is worthwhile and empowered. Individuality as a way of life, so righteous in the moment.

As soul-searching rambles on to face-punch symphonies of crunchy power cords, ridiculousness is the name of this blackened game. Even how Impaled Rektum discovers its unique sound is expectedly comical, as Lotvonen gets a skinned reindeer corpse caught in some industrial piece of butcher's equipment, the shuddering parts clunking and grinding to rhythm. Laatio and Vidgren lens so many scenes like something out of a Norse fable, Turo and his crew facing even the most mundane obstacles with the hardcore presence of Metalocalypse 's Dethklok. Such a formidably funny rags-to-rockstars story about scoring one life-changing shot and the pure lunacy we're willing to endure along the way. Zoo enclosure fight sequences, religious-themed bachelor parties, rocket launchers, psych breakouts – you name it.

Without feeling the true scorch of Slayer-like tendencies, metalhead movies are nothing. Good thing Heavy Trip is forged from a crucible of everything held sacred to growlers, grindcore-ers, disciples of Bodom – references are steeped in sacrificial offerings to Odin himself. Care and understanding honors death metal royalty, from goat blood dousings to costumed lifestyles to music therapy by way of Satan's choir. This is no cop out. Analysis and anecdotes are out-of-bounds rad and musicianship a hammer that's dropped with first-pounding rage. Impaled Rektum's first song is a megaton of tonal punishment whether actors are actually  playing their instruments or not – all the more impressive if so, but otherwise, the likes of Holopainen and his clan sell every faithful second.

Heavy Trip should be watched with the volume cranked, beers chilled and battle-axe sheathed. A barbaric laugh-riot fit to premiere inside the halls of Valhalla to sold-out crowds of headbanging savages. Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren score harmonized laughs by sailing the seas of death metal superstardom while still exploring infantile bumblings of first-time hotshots (band name suggestion scenes and all). Gags are in-tune (a very This Is Spinal Tap approach to Jynkyy's reckless drummer lifestyle or overt references like "Col. Dokken"), Nordic set pieces that recall viking battlefields of yesteryear and road humor a blissfully Apatowian middle-finger to conformity. Wail loud, scream proud and support this kooky exploratory import that's worth one hell of a night with rocksteady friends, horns in the air, until the final credits roll. /Film Rating: 8 out of 10

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