Anmeldelse: «Eddie the Eagle» – Dagbladet.no

FILM: In the slope of a ski jump in Garmisch Partenkirchen, in the incontestable is winter, the Hugh Jackman around with rolled-up shirt sleeves. It says you really all you need to know about the realism of “Eddie the Eagle”, a corny tribute to the British ski jumper who cheered with joy at last their seats during the Olympics in Calgary in 1988.

Aviators and cigarette

Olympic possessed Eddie (Taron Egerton) growing up in a working class neighborhood, with a caring mother and a brusque father who believes his son should concentrate on getting plaster himself and forget this Olympic nonsense. Eddie has bad knees, cola bottom glasses and social skills that never quite come on par with others, but makes up for all the enthusiasm and work ethic. It is sheer determination that makes him Garmisch and makes him unable to persuade the bankrupt jumper Bronson (Jackman) to train him.

We know Bronson is a cynical tough guy because he’s cigarette and aviator sunglasses and drinking liquor. We also know that Bronson will prove to have a heart of gold, because this is such a film. We also know that the governing withdrawal of the English Olympic team will have private school background, upper-class accent and a long list of prejudices, because this is such a film.

Norwegian short visit

villain roles in “Eddie the Eagle” is evenly distributed on the British sports management and the Norwegian ski jumping team. Rune Temte and Mads Sjøgård Pettersen is back on a short visit in the roles of rumbling trains and klysete hop star.

The streamlined training for the Norwegians set up as mechanical and unnatural contrast to the more rebellious way to Bronson, which involves filling jumping in the 70 meter hill. Edvin Change is however a fascinating figure as an androgynous and Yoda-like Matti Nykänen, who has a penchant for delivering gebrokne wisdom in the elevator up to the jump.

Childhood seventies is sweetly portrayed, but the closer the Olympics we get, the more starting budget constraints to appear. The scenes from Garmisch directly impoverished.

uncomfortable caricature

Egerton gives everything in the role of Eddie, but ends up making fun of the man he obviously wants to cheer, because of the persistent over the game. Egerton push the lower jaw out like a drawer and heavens constant with eyes, in a way that makes Eddie an uncomfortable caricature. Such roles is a tightrope, but like that do not go to a movie, the theme notwithstanding, never caring too much for balance.

Exceptionally allure

There are moments where “Eddie the Eagle” succeed being as charming as it desperately wants, adding reveal a disarming sincerity that penetrates almost childlike shell. Cardiac heat is palpable. The most interesting conversation between Bronson and Eddie, said Bronson warns protégées her against thinking that all those cheering for him, on his team; believing that they look at him as a hero, when they really look at him as a Nuss curiosities.

The more pussigere is that director Dexter Fletcher did not look his own film stumbles into the same pitfall far more often than it should.