Party Hard

Marty Pohl rafraîchit le genre de la comédie tchèque – pardon, du cinéma tchèque dans son ensemble ! Son Párty Hárd l’emporte clairement sur la flopée de films bâclés et affreusement artificiels projetés dans nos salles ces dernières années. Déjà, pour commencer, il a une âme, on y trouve la patte de l’auteur et il regorge d’idées plus innovantes et folles les unes que les autres que le réalisateur n’a pas peur de mettre en avant. Et oui, c’est sans hésitation le film tchèque le plus divertissant de ces dernières années ! (26/06/2022)

En fermant les yeux sur les performances d’acteurs absolument tragiques et le fait que le film suinte la grossièreté et le scato par tous les pores, il me faut bien admettre, la main sur le cœur, que cette perversité foldingue m'a fait rire à gorge déployée. Tout en étant conscient des nombreux aspects négatifs, je dirais que le film a atteint son but par les côtés divertissant et instructif ainsi que la dimension artistique et les visuels qu’il procure. Et il se fait que j’ai réellement passé un bon moment. Ne tournons pas autour du pot et décochons-lui quatre étoiles ! (25/03/2020)

It's on the level of the "Mártyho frky" comic strip by Martin Pohl – sometimes it's funny because it's just brilliantly written, paced, and acted (anything with Grundza, for example); sometimes it's funny mainly because it's so horribly stupid; sometimes it’s just stupid and cheesy. The biggest gross-out scene came a while after it started, then it was easy to endure after that, and I actually had quite a bit of fun wondering what was going to happen next given that it was absolutely impossible to predict. However, if I were in Reznik’s target audience, I probably would have been much more impressed and would soon want to watch Párty Hárd again and again and again. (21/03/2020)

Unfortunately seen after the sequel, which is not only harder in line with its title, but also far more sophisticated and more daring in every aspect. Compared to it, the first Party Harder looks like a proof of concept video with which an aspiring filmmaker secured the resources for a professional production. Which is an exact representation of reality. Party Hard deservedly became an underground phenomenon, but Pohl showed what he was really capable of when we was later given the necessary resources. What’s actually surprising about the first film is that the  gags for adults work best, while the main adolescent storyline stumbles and only tries in vain to keep up. Pohl actually inverts the wisdom of Cosy Dens here to “Fucking is for old people. Kids will drink”, while also dispelling the inaccurate American Pie myth that the wildest acts of depravity are perpetrated by horny teenagers. (10/07/2022)

Ham Pie. Disgusting, perverse, cutting to the quick, and with an all-encompassing awkwardness. Cooked up precisely to entertain me with its timing and cadence, and the creators of domestic run-of-the-mill comedies declared a brown alert. Konrad Henlein’s middle school simply couldn’t spit out something ordinary. It’s undoubtedly every teenager’s dream to have such a tolerant and supportive father (not counting the recruiters for Serbian militias). (26/02/2024)