Gentle paced with subtle low key humour.

The storyline is rather implausible although Britt-Marie tries her best in a fish-out-of-water situation.

A coming of age rite of passage drama for a bored housewife.

A cute film if ignoring the original book. if one Read the book before watching this movie then it seems to have failed to capture the dynamic, the complexity, the driven, of all characters, especially Britt-Marie. The film made it feel like a little fantasy while everyone suddenly have all the energy to be optimistic and help each other after Britt-Marie came to town, none of the good interaction, the struggle in the book was reflected in the movie, makes one wondering why this happened. in the book, the starting part of Britt-Marie interaction with the girl work at the job office(arbetsförmedlingen) is a base setting part of her personality and life philosophy, and also the end part while fighting for the football plan is a symbol of fighting against bureaucrats that has way too long work breakfasts. This film seems to have removed most "disturbing" part like the robbery and background stories of the kids, and of course end of Sami to make it more cheerful and happy ending. but instead it just became a cheesy, ordinary flat and hopelessly unexciting movie.

A very enjoyable movie that I was reluctant to watch. After wading through 762 pages of the book that seemed to have been written for prisoners on death row that had no escape, the movie was a breath of fresh air. It certainly was not Mary Poppins were every 12 seconds you were hit over the head with goodness. The movie expected more from you. If you melded at all with Britt-Marie and began to see who she was, a look of helplessness on her face told more that a 15 page explanation in the book. After loosing her sister who was the only person who she shared dreams with and never being able to find that again she stopped dreaming. And after a while you forget to look. Then if you are lucky you realize that maybe you can dream again.