The Sporty Accountants 2
New season. New ledger. Same two men in the clubhouse at midnight.
- comedy
- drama
The sequel does the thing sequels almost never do: it finds a bigger story without losing the small one.
What works
- Kølner finally gets the lead and is more than up to it
- The audit sequence is genuinely tense
- A sequel that raises the stakes without leaving the clubhouse
- The last five minutes will get you
What falls short
- The regional-championship subplot belongs to a different film
- At 118 minutes it is fourteen minutes longer than it needs to be
Sequels to small, well-liked comedies usually fail the same way: they mistake scale for stakes. The Sporty Accountants 2 mostly resists. It sends its two accountants into a genuine crisis — a merger that would dissolve four clubs into one — and keeps the camera pointed at the same kitchen table.
Kølner's film
Where the first film belonged to Levorsen's unflappable managing director, this one hands the lead to Kølner, and he is more than up to it. The long central sequence in which he works through a set of books he already knows is wrong is played almost entirely in silence, and it is the best thing in either film.
The regional-championship strand is the one miscalculation — a broader, louder film keeps trying to break in through the window. Every time it does, the pace sags. Cut it and this is a nine.
Is it worth your evening?
More than the first, which is not a sentence anyone expected to write about a comedy sequel concerning amateur sports bookkeeping.
The verdict
Essential
Better than the original, and unembarrassed about being a film in which the climax is an audit.
What works
- Kølner takes the lead and holds it
- The audit sequence is genuinely tense
What falls short
- The championship subplot belongs elsewhere
- Fourteen minutes too long
Returning
Jan Egil Levorsen
Jan Egil
Frode Kølner
Frode
By the numbers
4
Clubs
118
Minutes
1
Audit
0
Car chases
Awards
- Amanda AwardsBest Supporting Actor
- Amanda AwardsBest Screenplay