Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing

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. (31/07/2021)

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. (28/11/2021)

A glimmer of hope for Czech cinema... Kozub and Štáfek drift through today’s pulp online inspiration unscathed, poking fun at it in a way that makes you laugh out loud. Andy Fehu has a feel for comic timing and lets Kozub improvise when needed, like he does in his YouTube show Three Tigers, but manages occasionally to calm him down a little. The journey to find the dead bride, combined with the story of disintegrating friendship pulls another ace out of its purse in the form of Magnus’ "Master of the Shits" which presents YouTubers in their full glory. It’s been a while, but at last a really amusing Czech movie. P.S.: It even made it to Netflix, which is a triumph for the main protagonists. (11/12/2021)

This is the most complex Czech film of the last decade. I mean it! All the foreign samples are put together into a purely Czech whole that works in all conceivable positions. The satire toward the local YouTube scene could perhaps be a bit sharper (and maybe that's why I'm not giving it full stars), but I enjoyed everything else perfectly. There's no point in naming specifics, but the scene with the shit is exactly the kind of thing everyone else wished they'd made, but it never came out exactly in the balanced level of dementia and wit that it does here. I'm going to pretend this wasn't all a coincidence and I’m cautiously hoping for a sequel. (14/02/2022)

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. (28/09/2021)