Ahead of Time () is a 2004 Icelandic musical comedy film directed by Ágúst Guðmundsson. It is about the comeback of the band Stuðmenn, known from Ágúst Guðmundsson's 1982 film On Top.
Cast
Gísli Marteinn Baldursson as himself
Helga Braga Jónsdóttir as Urður
Andrea Gylfadóttir as Verðandi
Ragnhildur Gísladóttir as Harpa Sjöfn Hermundardóttir
Jakob Magnússon as Frímann Flygering
Stefan B. Onundarson as Band member
Hrönn Steingrímsdóttir as Skuld
Stuðmenn
Tómas M. Tómasson as Skafti Sævarsson
Þórður Árnason as Baldvin Roy Pálmason
Egill Ólafsson as Kristinn Styrkársson Proppé
Höskuldur Ólafsson as Kári Már Hörpuson
Ásgeir Óskarsson as Hafþór Ægisson
Eggert Þorleifsson as Dúddi
Reception
Variety's Robert Koehler wrote: This half-cracked cousin of Abba may be worthy of an extended video, but at feature length, goofball exercise gets lost in the Icelandic snow. ... Nearly every scene here is punctuated by a musical number, some recalling Jacques Demy, others resembling Europeanized MTV videos, and all trying extremely hard to be funny. This effort to be humorous makes Ahead of Time play like a wildly overextended joke on the theme of the folly of old rockers trying once again to get their groove on.