AutCuddly
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Hayden Kane
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
ajrg-17-381639
This movie is a classic of deadpan absurd humor and is one of the best movies of all times. The group plays nothing but Finnish folk music and are rejected at home but sent to the US where they will listen to anything. From there it is different regions of the US with their different styles of music-and it is to me a kind of love story for these genres. In each place they do something in the local style or a parody of it. The movie makes fun of the band and Finnish culture and every kind of music as they head for Mexico where they going to play at a wedding. They even make fun of ranchero music and all of it they do well or at least well enough to make you laugh. I will never forget their country music song about being on collective #5 where his sweetheart ran off with a commissar. If you don't like it you just don't like music or deadpan humor.
Michael Neumann
A family of ersatz, Eastern European musicians, with little talent beyond their 18-inch long pointed shoes and matching pompadours, tries to strike it rich in the New World, where anything goes, or so they hope. The episodic non-plot simply puts the unlikely ensemble in some equally unlikely settings (seedy urban truck stops, and so forth), and that, in or out of a nutshell, is the entire film.It's certainly the most accessible effort yet from the prolific Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, but this sort of deadpan irreverence can only be stretched so thin, and after a (short) while too much of the material is merely repetitive. Kaurismaki has often been called his country's answer to Jim Jarmusch (who appears here in a memorable cameo as a used car salesman), but on the evidence of this fitfully amusing one-joke novelty he may be embracing the comparison a bit too close.
FilmCriticLalitRao
The best thing about "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" is that it gave its creator Aki Kaurismaki a chance to take his cinematographic career to a higher level of elegance.This is one of the few films where Finnish cinema author has felt as if he has really been able to question some basic cultural differences of two entirely different civilizations. There are various kinds of sentiments attached to this film.Most viewers can experience comic,tragic as well as dramatic moments which have all been rolled into one in order to create a perfect symmetry of human emotions.As usual longtime Kaurismaki collaborator actor Matti Pellonpää is simply outstanding in his role as the leader/manager of a glamorous Finnish rock band.He is a key element if a viewer were to find out how some Finnish musicians look at American way of life ? Aki Kaurismaki does not appear in a mood to surprise us at all when he questions American way of life by asking a very straightforward politically correct question. What do non American musicians need in order to be accepted by American public especially in the field of Rock N Roll ? This is a great film which attempts to answers many such questions.
Spangarang
Leningrad Cowboys Go America is Finland meets the Blues Brothers with a bit of Monty Python thrown in. Very entertaining.My husband and I watched this movie last night as it was St. Urho's Day and we wanted to see something from Finland. Well, 90% of the movie is in English rather than Finnish, but that didn't matter. Basically, this crazy band of brothers finds that their music is not marketable in Finland, so they go to America. It's not really marketable their either, so they are sent to Mexico and play at a bunch of bars on the way there. They switch from oldies rock to country to modern rock along the way. Finally in Mexico they are accepted for music close to what they were playing in the first place. A bad manager, dead guitarist, outcast brother, and long lost cousin add to the fun. I would recommend it to anyone who likes bizarre comedy.
