The Romanian film Teambuilding, a satire on relationships between employees of a company, set an audience record in cinemas and on Netflix and aroused extreme reactions of rejection or, conversely, approval.
Cristian Tudor Popescu, a passionate film publicist, deleted the film in a Facebook post, writing that he was forced to stop it halfway through.
“We laughed at Teambuilding. I am asked why I don’t say anything about the Romanian film Teambuilding. Especially since others write about it on the net and pretend that I wrote it. There is an answer: I half-watched it at home on the computer and I had to stop because the room was full of laughing monkeys. Not the movie, they were laughing at me. If I even write anything, anything, about Teambuilding, I think the primates would start spitting at me. What do you think, Have I lost a lot because I haven’t seen everything?” wrote CT Popescu.
On the other hand, film critic Andrei Gorzo had a much more favorable position for the film.
“Teambuilding has a number of quotable jokes (“I miss the house. The car. The dog,” says someone from Cluj). And, while generally primitive and/or crass-commercial, it has some forays into post-ironic areas and so not cool that they are cool – I think the parts with Cosmin “Micutzu” Nedelcu (whose character is called Horia Brenciu, which is why he felt cursed, humiliated, etc. all his life) and the cameo of the real Brenciu. ( In general, Micutzu projects a more fashionable character than the film that surrounds him). space of the two teams, their possible strategies, etc.; it’s a disaster. But as much as I regret one thing or the other, I don’t regret the two hours that I have spent in front of this comedy”, writes Gorzo in a story published on his blog.
The film directed by Matei Dima (the vlogger known as BRomania) was the biggest hit of 2022 in cinemas, according to Cinemagia. It had 983,000 admissions and 23.16 million lei in admissions since its premiere at the end of September.
The film Teambuilding, a dense satire on the relationship between employees and bosses in large companies, is the most watched film on Netflix in recent days, according to the network’s public ranking.
