Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing

A cheaper but decent horror adventure comedy from Czechia! The story focuses on two youtubers, one of them is getting tired of it, so they decide to do one last video for the fans: a documentary about the mystery of the nice crosses, featuring even a Bloody Bride! As a comedy, it is funny mainly thanks to Štěpán Kozub (knowing his previous works is an advantage). His acting style and more abrasive humour are always welcome for me. The film has a nice pace, good actors and a lot of interesting ideas and especially an unexpected ending where a buddy-comedy with ghosts turns into a minor splatter, and I like that. Story 3/5, Action 2/5, Humour 4/5, Violence 3/5, Fun 4/5 Music 3/5, Visuals 3/5, Atmosphere 3/5, Suspense 3/5, Emotion 2/5, Actors 4/5. 7.5/10. (11/28/2021)

Well, this was a highly ambiguous matter. I thought it would be a fairly direct attack on the fortress, regardless of its quality, but it wasn't. I was quite bored for part of the duration, while at other times I was fairly entertained, but I never laughed out loud. Štěpán Kozub was at least a notch above the others with his performance, but I almost passed out when I realized who came in second place. Tomáš Magnusek!!! This amateur and the second-worst Czech director in my personal ranking completely blew me away with his acting. So to sum it up; the movie didn't impress me in any way, but it also didn't offend me, and the duo of Kozub/Magnusek ensured it had a slight above-average quality. I still can't believe it. Tomáš Magnusek!!! (01/05/2022)

Shoky and Morty are YouTubers whose careers are coming to an end, so they decide to try to make a documentary about a cursed bride who has been killing people for centuries, and maybe figure out what to do with their lives and their friendship. Andy Fehu delivers a bold and clever film that plays with genres and pokes fun at audience expectations. It manages to be scintillatingly funny, clever and real, and you're never sure what's coming next. Štáfek and Kozub are great, Magnusek is awesome, and Fehu is his own man. (07/31/2021)

Andy Fehu’s new project is likable because, among other things, it doesn’t try to ply the same waters as his breakthrough revelation The Greedy Tiffany, although this may cause some mild disenchantment and unfulfilled expectations among viewers who were enthusiastic about his debut. On the one hand, the project has a whiff of Štěpán Kopřiva and his meta-reflexive work for experts in the area of genres and pop culture. Fortunately, however, Andy Fehu does not base his film only on quoting from particular models. He works with a more general and more generally applicable range of formalistic and stylistic associations, which he uses to enrich his biting comedy from the world of the young and self-absorbed. The awkward but sincere forty-year-old Radomil inevitably comes across as the most likable character. Tomáš Magnusek deserves considerable credit for this due to his breathtaking performance. This is where we see the difference between Shoky & Morthy and Kopřiva’s works with their casting of Michal David and Dada Patrasová. Fehu isn’t satisfied with a mocking wink and a role that benefits solely from the actor’s status as a celebrity. Instead, he gives Magnusek room to play the part with grace and a range that surpasses everyone else involved. If he doesn’t come away from this with a nomination for the Czech Lion for Best Supporting Actor or the Czech Film Critics' Award for Discovery of the Year, it will be a disgrace for both institutions. (07/31/2021)

I am glad that from time to time we have such a beautifully cheeky genre in the Czech Republic, from which the enthusiasm of the creators and the sincere belief that the audience will have fun just like them emerges. Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing doesn't care about anything else, and that's fine. Yes, you could say that three quarters of Andy Fehu's film was probably made just so that he could make the unprecedented finale... And you would be right. But it's actually fun the entire time, Štěpán Kozub plays his careless person to the best of his abilities and Tomáš Magnusek is so great that you will regret every minute he is not on screen. Seriously. (09/28/2021)