5.5/10
Senior Film Conservator

A definitive 5.5/10 rating for a film that redefined the boundaries of cult cinema. 5 raske piger remains a cornerstone of transgressive art.
Look, if you are looking for a gritty, modern drama, keep walking. 5 Raske Piger is strictly for the crowd that wants their cinema sweet, slightly dated, and packed with people who break into song for no reason. If you have zero patience for 1930s sentimentality, you are going to hate this. It’s a bit of a relic, but there’s a weird energy here that’s hard to just turn off.
The story follows five sisters who are orphans but somehow stay super perky. They decide to hunt down their uncle because of some dying wish their mom had. It’s classic stuff. They go from being penniless to suddenly navigating a world of fancy houses and people who talk way too fast.
Every time the plot starts to actually get somewhere, someone stops the conversation to perform a musical number. It’s very jarring. At one point, I thought the movie had glitched. It’s like watching College Lovers, but with more family baggage and less focus on actual school.
The sisters are all distinct, I guess? Though honestly, after the first twenty minutes, they start blending together. One of them is the 'tough' one, one is the 'sweet' one, and so on. It’s archetypes all the way down. The uncle character is just a grump who melts the second he hears a melody. Real believable, right? 🙄
It’s funny to compare this to something like The Wolverine. Both involve people trying to deal with complicated family legacies, but here, the stakes are just 'who gets the guy' instead of, you know, being an immortal mutant. It’s a totally different flavor of frustration.
The movie gets noticeably better once the sisters stop trying to be 'respectable' and just start causing chaos in the uncle's mansion. The pacing is all over the place, though. It feels like the editor was working on a deadline and just started cutting chunks out at random. Sometimes a scene ends before a character even finishes their sentence. It's sloppy, but it’s kind of endearing in a weird, messy way.
Honestly, I can't tell if this is a classic or just a really long commercial for 1930s fashion. Probably a bit of both. Don't go in expecting a life-changing experience. Just take it for what it is—a noisy, glittery distraction from a time when movies were still trying to figure out if they wanted to be plays or actual films.

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