Pinball Summer

I won an eBay auction for a strange pinball related poster a couple of years ago. The text was Finnish, and the movie title was Pinball Summer.

I bought it for the most obvious of reasons.

The picture is quite bizarre, and the Finnish text just makes it even more surreal.

I didn't give much thought to the movie itself before I showed the poster to some friends, and one of them commented that he had the movie on VHS in the eighties.

Still, the movie crept back into the dark corners of my brain once again, until one day when I was searching for some other pinball related items on eBay. At the very end of the list was a listing for Pinball Summer on DVD. And today it arrived in my mailbox! 

I must say, I enjoyed it quite a bit! Most of the plot revolves around a pinball tournament, and there are plenty of wonderful classic pinball machines throughout the movie. Ok, the story is kind of weak, but not much worse than other movies from that era. 

I somehow feel that it deserves more than the 4.4 it currently has on IMDB. I wouldn't recommend that you paid 25 dollars for it, not by far. But if you see it in the bargain bin somewhere, do pick it up!