Most comedies sit well without sequels. They are either good in the first place or the makers haven’t have found a new feel. As much as Heavier Trip which was made in 2018 during the Finnish comedy era, challenges this rule, it manages to make a mark for itself. The movie isn’t without its comical characters, as it is based around headbanger single minded enthusiastic people.
Multihyphenate Scandinavian Metal, one of an Impaled Rektum movie tries to answer, a rather simple question, should one sell their what they believe In quote unquote their soul. This question has an universal answer perhaps which tries to defy the overarching type of subculture that is surrounding the movie. The character dynamics, between band members and between the groups are hilarious in themselves as the movie edges more on to the tropical side. “Heavier Trip” has its fair share of passive teasing, so if you happen to dislike passive characters, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to you.
The boys in the movie, try to kill their time in the prison under the supervision of Warden Petterssen and the rage instigating guard, Dokken. Their health concerns aren’t a criminal, rather lewd. The boys might’ve started an r rated conversation between Norway and the boys.
Dokken does not want Impaled Rektum to go on self-describing them as, to quote them Word for Word, “symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer grinding Christ abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandic METAL” which we see them regularly do in “Heavy Trip”. They are also pretty good at it, which makes the struggles they had to go through in both movies all the more enjoyable due to the fact that their concert scenes are well shot, well lit, wonderfully choreographed, and are the appropriately quick in pace.
A fictitious turmoil catches the group’s attention: the troubled father of Kristian (Samuli Jaskio), the creatively blocked guitarist, needs to be rescued or the family’s slaughterhouse would be taken away from the family. That’s how Impaled Rektum escapes the prison and takes up a great contract with the aptly named and very well-known metal producer, Mr. Fisto (Anatole Taubman).
Fisto gives an offer to the nervous but good singer of the Rektum, Turo (Johannes Holopainen), who was eager to record the band’s first studio album and place them at Wacken an outdoor metal festival in German attended by about 100000 people. The group’s bassist, Xytrax (Max Ovaska), who is funny and painfully serious and dedicated, is not impressed with the metal producer Fisto, which means some discord is beginning to emerge in the band.
At the same time, Kristian attempts to understand how he can stand up to his hero Megadeth’s David Mustaine while the drummer Oula (Chike Ohanwe) does everything in his power to keep his temper in check. Dokken follows them but only when the stereotyped story needs a little motivation.
“Heavier Trip” is characterization and situational stereotypical and so it trudges from cliché to cliché. Xytrax’s impatience and somehow attractive disjointedness are retained by the great actors. But he is still the funniest member of the group, along with the weird expression of his ghost paint and the strange speech he uses to accompany the strange eyebrows he wears. Though not surprising since in both films Xytrax is a rather obstinate moralist of the band.
Xytrax advantages with this aspect, although not so many other characters, here they are at some important disadvantage because their quirks psychology is not well constructed into humor so it’s not easy to find the laughter out of them. Holopainen had the least rewarding part for the simplest reason which is that in the movie “Heavier Trip” it cut to sometime later where his character was at a wanting to believe in Fisto’s character but gut feeling not being able to. Oula’s and Kristian’s character’s do not but work so it’s not funny when their one-liners tag jokes come into play alongside their signature ticks but being after thoughts in their own bands story pushes the case to be more complicated. At least Mr. Moostain does manage to humor Kristian on the odd occasion that he attempts to say a prayer, Oula only manages to switch to angry Hulk mode on a few occasions.
For all of Turo’s and Kristian’s half-hearted xofads towards metal-heads only makes it harder to get into a comedy, seeing as they both fall into the industry’s normalizing of nostalgia.
Why is it that it is so important that Fisto gives Turo a black western hat that Turo is wearing with the name written in the band inside the hat resembling Lemmi’s? At times, jokes bob along in the movie without being able to have any memorable context or punchline, for example, Fisto sets up band photo shoot and there are stills were the photographer poses and pretends to give instructions in the scene are the funniest part. I want to experience the feel of danger, the feel of anger and the feel of sexual rage, I want to feel all that too said this one dude.
But, that aside, if you liked Heavy Trip, it’s probably worth watching for the chummy one-liners and the decent enough physical comedy. Heavy Trip, on the other hand, The movie this one is a retelling of is still great. And it is so because this one is a relaxing, though unneeded, version of the prior.
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