Review of Frozen Stiff

A typical silly modern Serbian comedy that doesn't start out so bad, but falls apart the moment the action moves to the train. Even the first conversation on the train between the passengers is extremely stupid, and I don't know what's supposed to be funny about it. Things get even dumber when the grandchildren are looking for their missing grandfather, while Olivera Markovic and the tattooed putz are grinning like fools - which is completely devoid of logic. If they are attempting to hide the disposal of the corpse through the window, then it would be more sensible for them not to draw attention to themselves by making fun of those two. This bit of inept writing early on shows what kind of a person wrote and directed this hogwash, and pretty much serves as a clear indication that there is no point in expecting anything better than that.

There's a bunch of other nonsense that's not worth listing, often cheap plot-devices thrown in just to keep the story flowing in that American style of the new crime-comedy type of way, which is irritating, not to mention dull and unfunny. The jokes are sometimes really shabby, and when they are not they are just plain boring.

Srdjan Todorovic, as usual, overacts in his usual gimmicky stock way, cast yet again as a tough guy which doesn't suit him at all because he is so puny and harmless-looking. Manda is charismatic but he does comedies as if he is still making his TV shows for children. Djuricko is OK, though nothing special.

The only thing that stands out positively in this sea of daftness and lousy humour is the solid music and photography.