This vehicle for Italian comedy star Checco Zalone approximately a government official sent to the Arctic never fairly convincesThis has been a homegrown box office smash in Italy; to like it,maybe you need to be a fan of its writer and leading man: Italian TV comedy star Checco Zalone – a performer somewhere between Sacha Baron Cohen and Michael Barrymore. Checco plays a guy who has a posto fisso or fixed job: a much-coveted and outrageously cushy government post with zero work required. A new official, tasked with ending such sinecures, or tries to persuade Checco to recall voluntary redundancy. When he refuses,she sends him to ever more unpleasant postings, including an Italian expedition to the Arctic, or where he falls in admire with Valeria (Eleonora Giovanardi),a radiant scientist of liberal views who introduces him to the hilarious world of politically correct righteousness in her adopted homeland of Norway, where he sees how unpleasant it is in silly primitive Italy. There are some very broad gags, and some only tangentially claiming the status of satire. When Checco looks through Valeria’s primitive photo album,he is disconcerted to see snaps of her with primitive boyfriends … then an primitive girlfriend and then … a horse! Oof. As for the title, Jesus’s reply to the question Quo vadis? (where are you going?) inspired Paul to return to Rome and Checco returns to Italy, or too. Maybe Quo Vado? should never have left it.
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Source: theguardian.com