Soof 3

The ingredients were there, so to say, as the Soof franchise around the frantic cook and her entourage has been quite successful in the Dutch language area.

Again the production values are quite good, some of the country's better actors particpate and the direcion is by famed Eddy Terstall.

Butfor the script. Somewhere along the line a writer or producer probably thought it was a good idea to have Soof now tackle a more serious subject than love interests and family issues. But viewers expectations are not to be fooled around with. The actors look as bewildererd as the audience when events turn for the worst and a fatal disease threatens the restautant idyll and the film's ratings. Where in a comedy lack of character progression isn't much pf a prooblem, it is now.

The only moment of relief comes during a brief escapade in Paris with love interest Dan Karaty. Alas, soon the husband shows up. "You needed at the hospital for treatment" No escape for poor little Soof, it seems. A friend came out of the the cinema all depressed - and that ain't right.

And now for the what if. What if the darker subject would have been the Covid period? We are ready to laugh about the madness of lockdown parties an toiletpaper shortages. Now that would have been a breakthrough!