Heavy Trip (2018)

• Year: 2018
• Released: 12 Oct 2018
• Country: Finland, Norway, Belgium
• Adwords: 5 wins & 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7220754/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heavy_trip
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/heavy-trip
• Available in: 720p,
• Language: Finnish, English, Norwegian
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Runtime: 92 min
• Writer: Juuso Laatio, Aleksi Puranen, Jari Olavi Rantala
• Director: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren
• Cast: Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Heikkinen
• Keywords: road trip, parody, road movie, coffin, viking,

	7.0/10
	72/100
	94% – Critics
	83% – Audience

Heavy Trip Storyline

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.

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Has its moments, but where’s the metal?

A group of friends in a small town in Finland has a metal band that has been playing nothing but covers for 15 years. One day they decide to write their own song and come up with a song that’s pretty great. They run into the promoter of a Norwegian metal festival and give him their demo tape.

For reasons unknown the singer makes up the story that the promoter invited them to play at his festival. From being treated like a bunch of losers they become the town’s heroes.

When they’re supposed to play in front the the town folk it turns into a disaster and they end up admitting that they won’t play in Norway. Still, the friends decide to travel to Norway and play in the parking lot if necessary.

In the end they make it to the festival and their determination gives them a spot on stage.

Heavy Trip is a fairly good-natured, low-key, light comedy about kids living routine lives and who for a moment get to pursue their dream of making it big in metal. There’s something here especially for folks who are into extreme metal: coming up with a band name, developing a logo, producing promo shots with no budget, finding transportation, a casket crowdsurfing and more. Then there’s your usual romance story involving the lovely Minka Kuustonen. There’s some unlikely scenarios which are funny nonetheless like the whole border terrorism skit.

Missing though is the music…in a movie centered around metal music. There’s the one song the kids come up with, which is fantastic. There are some low-volume songs in between scenes. But for the most part extreme metal is mostly absent in this movie no doubt as to not offend the audience. But that way the production only manages to alienate the crowd who is most likely to see this movie to being with: metalheads.

This movie then is ok for what it is, but it could have been more.

Very enjoyable movie…

The 2018 Finnish comedy “Heavy Trip” (aka “Hevi Reissu”) somehow managed to elude me until now late in 2021. I had the opportunity, finally, to get to sit down and watch it, and of course I did, since I have been listening to metal for more than 35 years myself.

Actually I hadn’t even heard about “Heavy Trip” had it not been because of an acquaintance mentioning the movie. So I sought it out and tracked it down, managing to get my hands on it shortly thereafter. And I will say that I was immediately sold on the cover alone.

The storyline told in “Heavy Trip”, as written by writers Juuso Laatio, Aleksi Puranen and Jari Olavi Rantala was definitely an enjoyable and entertaining one. “Heavy Trip” was rather unique, and it does a great job mixing different genres of movies into a single entertaining one. So thumbs up to the writers on that accomplishment. And I will say that the whole concept of a brutal metal band and their aspiration for their first gig as portrayed in the movie here was fun to watch.

I am by no means familiar with Finnish cinema, so all the performers in the movie here were unfamiliar faces to me. But I will say that they definitely had a good ensemble of skilled actors and actresses in the movie. And the movie was definitely nicely carried by the performances of Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Heikkinen and Max Ovaska.

The character gallery in “Heavy Trip” was interesting and enjoyable. The characters were well-written and given good, suitable and believable dialogue. And I will say that the characters were definitely multi-faceted aspects and personalities. And the movie gave room for some nice character development along the way.

With “Heavy Trip” being a movie about a brutal death metal band, of course you have music in the movie. And the music that was being used to personify the band was just spot on. And it added so much atmosphere to the movie.

If you enjoy metal music, then you should certainly sit down to watch “Heavy Trip”.

My rating of “Heavy Trip” lands on a well-deserved seven out of ten stars.

Not just for the heads

But as another reviewer wrote this seems to get the mindset of metalheads pretty nicely. And it is funny as hell – no pun intended. And while I am not a metal head by a far stretch, I also had the best time watching this. It is not for the faint hearted and you cannot be offended easily (otherwise do not watch the movie at all for your own sake).

But if you are open minded and like comedies that are not political correct and really do go places – again no pun intended – than you could do a lot worse than this. That is quite an understatement of course. But while this has violence in it and is crude, it is also very sweet too. Something not everyone might expect from it. Not to mention really emotional … what a journey … You have to root for the underdog(s) don’t you?