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- 88RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsA Finnish ensemble comedy about a wannabe black metal band, is probably the only film you'll see this year with a crowd-surfing corpse. Don't let the last part of that sentence dissuade you from seeing Heavy Trip: it's a real crowdpleaser.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungPart let's-get-it-together band saga and part road movie, the story arc is awfully familiar, but that doesn't stop it being a rollicking romp.
- 80L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonIn their feature debut, co-writers/directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren and co-writers Aleksi Puranen and Jari Olavi Rantala reach for absurdist comedy — the reindeer-blood accident, the projectile-vomit bit, the grave-robbing incident — with a touch so light that the general nuttiness comes to seem a central (and essential) component of Finnish rural life.
- 75The A.V. ClubKatie RifeThe A.V. ClubKatie RifeWhile the film’s attempts at slapstick can be painful — in a cringing way, not in a brutal way — Heavy Trip does succeed in creating perhaps the most charming ensemble of morbid dorks since "What We Do In The Shadows."
- 70Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenPlaying like a Nordic “This is Spinal Tap,” the Finnish import Heavy Trip, a satire about an aspiring heavy metal band’s efforts to land its first legitimate gig, proves as affably goofy as its characters.
- 70Film ThreatFilipe FreitasFilm ThreatFilipe FreitasHeavy Trip is an absurdist, powerhouse folly, which feels spunky enough to honor the musical genre and comes filled with deadpan hilarity to please comedy addicts.
- It's no "Metalocalypse" (pretty much the only metal comedy to completely break the rules), and there are no new classic anthems here, but if you want to bang your head to a very familiar beat, Heavy Trip is a solid cover version.
- 67ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerAs a fish-out-of-water comedy, it’s effectively funny more often than it isn’t, and as an ode to the unlikely communities that arise around black metal, it’s entirely sincere in its intentions.
- 50Slant MagazineSlant MagazineIts story distances heavy metal from any whiff of toxic masculinity by setting Turo and company against homophobes and rakes.