I hope the Icelanders like this better than I did.

Rating: 4/10 (29 June 2020)

Decent watch at best, I don't want to see it again, and I can't recommend it unless you just like laughing at foreigners.
Imagine....Pitch Perfect, with middle age characters, but instead of the 90% of somewhat interesting or even bland characters, the movie is centered around the 10% of annoying (potentially offensive) stereotypical characters you could have written out of the movie. I don't know if the producers just thought, "What's whiter than Iceland" and figure it was okay to make fun of them for an entire movie, but that's pretty much what they did.
I can't say if it's accurate, I don't have a lot of Icelandic jokes in my pocket, but SO MANY people had to endorse this that it is just sad this was made. This could have been a great American Idol style of movie, none of the nationalistic humor was necessary.
They took the "Off the bus from Kansas" trope, and set it in Europe, barely anything particular to it, let alone special.
Don't get me wrong, the singing is all great, but that's what audio programs are for, and they certainly had the budget to go the extra mile with this one.
The writing is actually pretty good in this, it's just coated in herring (see, that's probably a Swedish joke).
I'd really like to see an American version of this so we can let two top notch stars like Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams loose and not have to feel bad about it.