What I liked: I liked the book and this adaptation did a good job of highlighting the book's humor. I like that Otto really enjoyed his neighbor's cooking. I especially liked the frozen cat scene and the answering the door in the middle of the night scene, and playing the radio for the cat. I also liked the clown scene and that developing the backstory for the quarter helped rationalize the whole thing a bit. Product placements in movies are frequently a bit odd, I thought they did a good job with the cars and was entertained by the truck. The youtuber was also put to good use. I liked that they included a Swedish cafe and am curious about the semla. It was interesting that both this movie and A Man Called Ove were very faithful to the book but both managed to be quite different especially in tone. I guess it is my American showing through, I preferred this one because I laughed more. Otto was so grudgingly helpful but you could see the whole time that he did have a big heart...
This "is the worst idea in the long, sad history of terrible ideas" -Jurassic Park II