Land Ho!

Star Rating: ★★★★

An enjoyable independent comedy about two ammusing elderly people.No deep catharsis or not any big lesson learned. Nothing that pops 'an important film' and and ebrupt ending with no clues to what life brings aheaad.

This movie is hard to like at times. A couple old guys take an Icelandic road trip. Like visiting someone elses' grandparents, and not always in a good way. There was enough to make it worth watching, but not exciting. It often seemed just on the edge of becoming something noteworthy, until it ended. Saved only by genuine characters that felt real. Some humor but it was not laugh out loud funny.

Boring, and not enough Iceland for an Icelandic road trip.

I don't usually enjoy those feel-good movies about old people living it up, but Katz and Stephens' little road movie has just the right degree of sweetness, and does brilliantly to detail its main characters (a semi sex fiend and an introvert) without caricature, creating an understated tension between them while avoiding the usual melodramatic contrivances. It's Katz's best work to date.

satisfying symmetry in the way it revives a tired sub-genre along with its stagnating protags. straddles the line between easy/lightweight and simple/pure, but populating THIS kind of movie with actual people for once, framing them against the icelandic landscape in ways that emphasise and illuminate the concerns and longings and regrets which define them, is disarmingly infectious and genuinely poignant. absolutely does for road trips what COLD WEATHER did for noir. eenhorn is awesome.

Awful! Slow, plodding amateurish. Even made gorgeous Iceland look mundane.