Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it. A gang led by Cahoun finds a refuge in an abandoned castle and encounters an old composer who has voluntarily retired into solitude from a world of hatred, treason, and crime. How can they find a common ground, how can they become mutual friends? The castle becomes their hiding place but possibly it will also be their first home which they may organize and must defend. But even for this, the price will be very high.
To this simple story, the journalist, writer, poet, scriptwriter, movie director, and film theoretician Béla Balázs applied many years of experience. He and the director Géza Radványi created a work which opened a new postwar chapter in Hungarian film. Surprisingly, this film has not lost any of its impact over the years, especially on a profound philosophical level. That is to say, it is not merely a movie about war; it is not important in what location and in what period of time it takes place. It is a story outside of time about the joyless fate of children who pay dearly for the cruel war games of adults.
At the time it was premiered, the movie was enthusiastically received by the critics. The main roles were taken by streetwise boys of a children's group who created their roles improvisationally in close contact with a few professional actors, and in the children's acting their own fresh experience of war's turmoil appears to be reflected. At the same time, their performance fits admirably into the mosaic of a very complex movie language. Balázs's influence revealed itself, above all, in the introductory sequences: an air raid on an amusement park, seen in a montage of dramatic situations evoking the last spasms of war, where, undoubtedly, we discern the influence of classical Soviet cinematography. Shooting, the boy's escape, the locomotive's wheels, the shadows of soldiers with submachine guns, the sound of a whistle—the images are linked together in abrupt sequences in which varying shots and expressive sharp sounds are emphasized. A perfectly planned screenplay avoided all elements of sentimentality, time-worn stereotypes of wronged children, romanticism and cheap simplification. The authors succeeded in bridging the perilous dramatic abyss of the metamorphosis of a children's community. Their telling of the story (the scene of pillaging, the assault on the castle, etc) independently introduced some neorealist elements which, at that time, were being propagated in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic images. His angle shots of the children, his composition of scenes in the castle interior, are a living document of the times, and underline the atmosphere and the characters of the protagonists. The success of the picture was also enhanced by the musical art of composer Dénes Buday who, in tense situations, inserted the theme of the Marseilaise into the movie's structure, as a motive of community unification, as an expression of friendship and the possibility of understanding.
Valahol Europaban is the first significant postwar Hungarian film. It originated in a relaxed atmosphere, replete with joy and euphoria, and it includes these elements in order to demonstrate the strength of humanism, tolerance, and friendship. It represents a general condemnation of war anywhere in the world, in any form.
好现代的画质，好古老的故事，棉花糖精真的太棒了
Howie和Charlie那段大概是唯一甜美的纯爱，被男男主这一对俗气又肤浅的故事线毁了，以及这对欢喜冤家真的没有半点Chem，演Noah这位朋友基本看不清楚他在笑还在生气，他确定自己有在表演吗？
很多梗都很真实的，也让我笑了好多次，难得有这么开心的同志电影，而不是那种苦大仇深，天天讲认同，出柜和HIV的苦情电影了。所以要打五星支持。
九分，节奏、氛围都很好，情节虽有小BUG 但流畅又趣味十足，并且情怀满满，小演员也灵气十足，《怪奇物语》拍成电影也不见比这更好。
没看过之前的老版，但这部感觉拍的还挺有情怀的，尤其是结尾，当个合家欢的爆米花片子看看还挺好玩的~3.5
出乎意料的好看！儿童视角展开，像是暑假里的一次夏日大冒险，没有限额人心没有drama，只有最纯粹的正义打败邪恶爱治愈一切。小朋友组太太太可爱了，亚裔小男生很抢戏吼，大人组在这“拖后腿”但感情不拧巴好评，难得的是连最毒的teenager组都拍的春心萌动十分纯情。到最后看到原班人马再登场，明明应该没啥情怀的看到三人一鬼一起战斗还是会被触动，完美的圣诞档合家欢电影！
扯得有点夸张，凭几个小孩子去拯救这么大的危机！唯一让你可看的还是好莱坞式特效！最后三个捉鬼敢死队老人登场满满的情怀！
儿童版捉鬼敢死队比女拳版捉鬼敢死队强，有情怀，也有野心，但就是差了那么一口气，观感很近于《小丑回魂》，或许拍成美剧会稍好些？
越到后面剧情越逗比和儿戏啊，boss出场后，就像进入了80年代的情景剧，立马和时代脱节。最后，一群人脱智表现，烘托小女孩的智商和果敢在线？
6 剧情简单 轻松 儿童电影 女主角很可爱 主角团智商在线…木有大场面 高潮不给力 剧情一般 主角团政治很正确 …
纯粹的炒冷饭，美国现在编剧是都得新馆死了吗？剧本越来越差，可惜了这个系列
两部《捉鬼敢死队》就比较一般，这部更是没意思，故事太平淡，比不过女版《捉鬼敢死队》；特效不错，小女孩很漂亮，但造型让我以为这是个漂亮的小男孩。
只有棉花糖自娱自乐那段印象最为深刻，太萌太阔爱了
像这样所有的剧情起承转合都照搬傲慢与偏见的电影，剧本首先就是懒惰到极致了，况且新编部分还极度狗血老套俗气……完全是盲赚lgbt电影的关注度
三星全给小女主，喜欢她的天才少女和小谢尔顿。总是演天才美少女，这个压力也确实是不小，长大了不知道咋办。
1.27至1h13min警察局回家戏处。1.28终。
比《沙滩鼠》更hilarious. 意料中的bitchy,但是并不会令人反感. 整体视听还不错.
小丫头以后绝对是大美女啊，棉花糖鬼比大白可爱多了，养一个也不错
小女主菲比是亮点，故事平淡，效果平庸，最终也只能靠卖情怀，外加家庭和解的老梗。
Howie和Charlie那段大概是唯一甜美的纯爱，被男男主这一对俗气又肤浅的故事线毁了，以及这对欢喜冤家真的没有半点Chem，演Noah这位朋友基本看不清楚他在笑还在生气，他确定自己有在表演吗？
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