This 105-minute movie has it. It is an absolute disgrace that this was actually by far the most successful German movie from 2014 in terms of box-office. Many good German films were released that year and hardly anybody saw them, but they went for rubbish like this one? Let's start at the beginning: This was the third film he directed and the second he wrote. Of course, he also plays the lead character. And honestly, he is probably not even among the 1,000 most talented filmmakers and actors in Germany and yet he is probably among the 5 most known in both categories. And what's even worse is that he co-wrote the script with roughly 5 other people and this is what they come up with? An absolute embarrassment. The dialogs are stupid. The jokes are almost never funny, but always try so hard to be funny. The dramatic portions have serious music and this film takes itself so seriously in these. The characters are complete nonsense. Their actions are completely unrealistic and their interactions are cringeworthy from start to finish.
Schweighöfer casted a female lead actress, who is not particularly talented, not really good-looking and also not famous at all, even here in Germany. Obviously, the only purpose behind that casting decision was that she would not take away any spotlight from him. Friedrich Mücke is not a good actor either and is really only in it because he's a longtime pal of Schweighöfer. And he casted a couple people more from his usual posse including his mother Gitta and Tim Sander for example. Actually talented actors like Katharina Schüttler and Milan Peschel (another Schweighöfer buddy) are wasted in small roles where they don't get to show an ounce of their talent, because otherwise they would be destroying the Schweighöfer show. Another great problem with this movie is realism. The main character's brother brings a ferret and the animal bites him into his genitals (haha oh so funny!) right after he made a donation at a sperm bank. Of course, he is infertile now. And of course, he gets together with the mother of his soon-to-be child. And of course her actual boyfriend can't father children either. And of course he is cheating on her. And of course, the brother crashes into the guy while he is cheating on her. God... this is such a terrible terrible film. But what would you expect from a movie that advertises with Tom Beck being in the cast.
The perfect way to describe this film is maybe to call it a very poor man's version of a Til Schweiger movie. If you know a couple of these, you will know that, frequently, they are fairly mediocre as well. The humor is sometimes similar, but even far worse in here. And next to Schweighöfer's acting, Schweiger looks like Daniel Day-Lewis. The only hope I have is that they will not make a sequel to this huge piece of crap at some point, maybe something about adoption or so. Highly not recommended. The only positive thing it has that there is a cute ferret in there. Everything else is complete rubbish. Stay far, far away.
Schweighöfer casted a female lead actress, who is not particularly talented, not really good-looking and also not famous at all, even here in Germany. Obviously, the only purpose behind that casting decision was that she would not take away any spotlight from him. Friedrich Mücke is not a good actor either and is really only in it because he's a longtime pal of Schweighöfer. And he casted a couple people more from his usual posse including his mother Gitta and Tim Sander for example. Actually talented actors like Katharina Schüttler and Milan Peschel (another Schweighöfer buddy) are wasted in small roles where they don't get to show an ounce of their talent, because otherwise they would be destroying the Schweighöfer show. Another great problem with this movie is realism. The main character's brother brings a ferret and the animal bites him into his genitals (haha oh so funny!) right after he made a donation at a sperm bank. Of course, he is infertile now. And of course, he gets together with the mother of his soon-to-be child. And of course her actual boyfriend can't father children either. And of course he is cheating on her. And of course, the brother crashes into the guy while he is cheating on her. God... this is such a terrible terrible film. But what would you expect from a movie that advertises with Tom Beck being in the cast.
The perfect way to describe this film is maybe to call it a very poor man's version of a Til Schweiger movie. If you know a couple of these, you will know that, frequently, they are fairly mediocre as well. The humor is sometimes similar, but even far worse in here. And next to Schweighöfer's acting, Schweiger looks like Daniel Day-Lewis. The only hope I have is that they will not make a sequel to this huge piece of crap at some point, maybe something about adoption or so. Highly not recommended. The only positive thing it has that there is a cute ferret in there. Everything else is complete rubbish. Stay far, far away.