Having lived my childhood in communist times in Yugoslavia some parts of this movie capture that period of communism transition to a freer world... In what it fails this movie is the characters. It is exaggerated comedy, that made all the characters on screen look like idiots, crude jokes that it doesn't hit the right target, just like slapstick comedy you laugh on clumsiness, outer appearance but not on what really was bad in that system and deserved to be joked about.
