I had watched this film a long time ago, as a kid. When I saw it again, after seeing most of other Olsen-banden films, I found this one a bit disappointing. It seems, like the movie makers were searching for a proper formula for the series - which they fortunately found in later films. In this film, firstly, the gang is involved in a common burglary, against honest citizens. The only excuse for an opening scene is, that this is a very funny situation joke. The title big score is stealing 4 millions of collected taxes. ...Not that a government guarantees to make a proper use of money collected from people, but it feels better, when our heroes punish some dishonest individuals, who deserved it. The police in the film are just annoyingly goofy, but this is also the last film of the series to make such simple jokes of the police.
The ending is dissatisfying and just wrong - if the Olsen's gang could not keep the stolen money, then why on Earth the script makers awarded an evil woman from the other gang with the loot?... Was it only because she was attractive, although her character did not do anything in the whole film to be likable? Moreover, the lone woman in an expensive fur, showing a suitcase full of money, would probably soon fell a victim of some scoundrel, and we even see a candidate, clearly interested in her money. By the way, Annika Persson hardly said a word in the film, and as far as it is known, this is her only role. There was even a nudity scene, when we saw her from a back, coming to bath - if I recall correctly, the only nudity scene in a whole series. Although pleasant to look at, her character did not fit to the series. All in all, I feel it would have been more appropriate ending, if contents of the suitcase just had spilled on the airport ground.
Despite this criticism, the film is worthy to look at. There are some funny twists, when Yvonne criticizes Kjeld and Benny, praising Egon, or when Benny takes over planning in Olsen's style, and Kjeld acts like Benny. Even a musical scene with Kongen and Knægten is an intelligent and funny spoof of old Hollywood movies, and does not seem out of place.
The ending is dissatisfying and just wrong - if the Olsen's gang could not keep the stolen money, then why on Earth the script makers awarded an evil woman from the other gang with the loot?... Was it only because she was attractive, although her character did not do anything in the whole film to be likable? Moreover, the lone woman in an expensive fur, showing a suitcase full of money, would probably soon fell a victim of some scoundrel, and we even see a candidate, clearly interested in her money. By the way, Annika Persson hardly said a word in the film, and as far as it is known, this is her only role. There was even a nudity scene, when we saw her from a back, coming to bath - if I recall correctly, the only nudity scene in a whole series. Although pleasant to look at, her character did not fit to the series. All in all, I feel it would have been more appropriate ending, if contents of the suitcase just had spilled on the airport ground.
Despite this criticism, the film is worthy to look at. There are some funny twists, when Yvonne criticizes Kjeld and Benny, praising Egon, or when Benny takes over planning in Olsen's style, and Kjeld acts like Benny. Even a musical scene with Kongen and Knægten is an intelligent and funny spoof of old Hollywood movies, and does not seem out of place.