There're only a couple of things to praise here:
On the other end of the quality spectrum, well, even listing this movie's foibles is an exercise in futility as the filmmakers clearly aimed for a spoonful of cheap entertainment, so I'll pretty much stop right here. Suffice it to say, various plot points are preposterously contrived and, predictably, that special brand of lazy/cheap/dumb-ass urban humour that's fast becoming a staple of recent Serbian cinema rears its ugly head again.
Also, the fact "Citulja za Eskobara" came from the recently established Pink's film division is very noticeable as that special aura of noxious Pink jenesequis fills the air in more than a few scenes. For the uninitiated out there, Pink is a media conglomerate that makes most of its dough via a trashy Balkans-wide TV network showing yucky reality shows and banal talk & variety programmes with plenty of tits & ass.
PS: I didn't really have an idea what to expect from the film based on the trailer or the promos, and it's just as well 'cause had I known beforehand about its basic premise of a twenty-something girlie dude who surgically transforms into a hot babe and then decides to seek revenge on his former elementary school tormentor (who in the meantime has become a mafia boss) by making him fall in love with his new exterior.... well, put it this way, coupled with the fact that this is a Pink production...I'd have ran for the hills.
In the end, I guess the best I can come up with about "Citulja za Eskobara" is that it's not as bad as its summary sounds.
- the Croatian chick did a fine job playing a Belgrade babe, accent and all (the same can't be said for baldy Bitorajac who tried to compensate by overacting ridiculously, though his saving grace might be that the role was tiny anyway),
- and Marko Zivic provided some decent enough comic relief as the jester of this criminal clan.
On the other end of the quality spectrum, well, even listing this movie's foibles is an exercise in futility as the filmmakers clearly aimed for a spoonful of cheap entertainment, so I'll pretty much stop right here. Suffice it to say, various plot points are preposterously contrived and, predictably, that special brand of lazy/cheap/dumb-ass urban humour that's fast becoming a staple of recent Serbian cinema rears its ugly head again.
Also, the fact "Citulja za Eskobara" came from the recently established Pink's film division is very noticeable as that special aura of noxious Pink jenesequis fills the air in more than a few scenes. For the uninitiated out there, Pink is a media conglomerate that makes most of its dough via a trashy Balkans-wide TV network showing yucky reality shows and banal talk & variety programmes with plenty of tits & ass.
PS: I didn't really have an idea what to expect from the film based on the trailer or the promos, and it's just as well 'cause had I known beforehand about its basic premise of a twenty-something girlie dude who surgically transforms into a hot babe and then decides to seek revenge on his former elementary school tormentor (who in the meantime has become a mafia boss) by making him fall in love with his new exterior.... well, put it this way, coupled with the fact that this is a Pink production...I'd have ran for the hills.
In the end, I guess the best I can come up with about "Citulja za Eskobara" is that it's not as bad as its summary sounds.