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De Terugreis review
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An average movie

A few weeks ago, I was having dinner with some aunts and an uncle of mine and they kept talking about this movie and how hilarious it was so I became intrigued. Eventually, I checked it out and the IMDb ratings were actually pretty good so, since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well watch it. Well, I wish I did share the same enthusiasm about this movie but, to be honest, it didn’t really impress me though. At least, I will have to admit that Leny Breederveld and Martin van Waardenberg were really good and they both gave some really solid performances. Unfortunately, even though these 2 actors were fine, I didn’t care much about their characters though. On one hand, there was Jaap who was grumpy not because he did fit his personality or because he was shaped by life this way but, obviously, because it was supposed to be entertaining and, from time to time, he would suddenly become someone else entirely different when it was needed for the plot. For Maartje, it was actually even worse though. Indeed, she was basically limited to be a poor old woman having some random Alzheimer episodes instead of being given an actual real personality. However, what really bothered me the most was the story they were stuck with. Basically, they went for the road-trip genre which is the laziest writing gimmick ever. Indeed, without making any efforts whatsoever, some whimsical and (supposedly) entertaining events will then automatically occur during their journey which is, in my opinion, some rather poor storytelling. Finally, the last thing that bothered me was how, at the end, they tried to suddenly show that this couple used to be super fun and entertaining when they had spent the whole rest of the movie showing how average tedious and sometime plain mean they were. I thought it was so cheap and not convincing whatsoever. I mean, there is no way that such a loving couple would be after all these years so bitter, so completely uninterested and uncaring for each other only because they got old. And even if it might be possible, it actually made this people even less interesting than they already was then. Anyway, to conclude, this review might seem harsh but I have to admit that the damned thing was actually rather harmless and it is actually worth a look but probably only if you really like this kind of Dutch dry sense of humor. 

6/10
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Added by johanlefourbe
2 days ago on 30 October 2024 08:48