"Ein Drilling kommt selten allein" is a German television film from 2012, so not too long anymore until this one has its tenth anniversary. It runs for slightly under 1.5 hours just like the vast majority of German small screen releases. The title means roughly something like "a triplet never comes alone", which sounds kinda factual in English and sure is, but as it is linked to a saying in German that has the word for "bad luck" instead of "triplet", there is a humorous note to it in my language. Well, not really. It is not exactly a smart or funny play on words if we are honest. Then again, this also would have been pretty surprising because nothing else about this film is smart or funny. But I will get to that later. The director is Dietmar Klein and if you take a look at his body of work, especially everything he made in the new millennium, then you know exactly which direction his effort here is heading. Normally I would say that the writer is mroe to blame than the director, but as Klein has been part of so many garbage projects in the past, there is no excuse for him at all. The writer here is Martin Douven and just like Klein, he is still active today. No surprise as he is only in his early 50s now. His filmography may be slightly better than Klein's but that is really only because Klein's is this horrible. This is a Bavaria Film production, another really safe indicator that you are not in for a treat with this movie, even if they are not as terrible as Degeto and Regina Ziegler movies. But the one indicator that is absolutely safe in depicting that here we have a really weak movie is the fact that the lead actress is Thekla Carola Wied. I have seen her in a lot and she is always terrible, no range, no versatility, always hammy, always over the top and always playing basically the exact same character: a woman with a good job who is superior to men (obviously), super smart, always in control and also takes care of her child's life. This film is certainly not an exception. Male lead is Günther Maria Halmer. He is definitely not a revelation, but next to Wied he looks like Al Pacino. Him I have seen in some films too, but I still find it sad to see which direction his career took given the fact that he was in some really memorable international movies in his younger years. Julia Brendler is easy on the eye for sure, but not a good actress and she has a terrible filmography too. The younger central male character is out of the movie for a long time because he is at a hospital. He is played by Jens Atzorn. Nothing clicks, except the name of his father of course. Martin Feifel is easy to recognize with his scene at the very end, even if I did not remember the name, but what a joke character honestly. Unreal stuff. Jo Kern I have seen before too I think. Lisa Wagner I like her cop show, but honestly when it comes to the movies I have seen her in, it's almost all trash too. And finally Matthias Bundschuh, who is the closest to a main antagonist here, I remember from the pretty funny film "Shoppen", even if admittedly I did not make the connection right away. Of course, while bullying the poor Wied character around all the time, in the end he basically has to beg for her to come back and she will not do him the favor. Some cringeworthy moments there too like when he is inside her office and she tells him very harshly to leave the room. What a powerful woman!
So we are right inside the story already. First, let me give you a few moments where I found Wied especially embarrassing. The best example is maybe when she speaks English on one occasion in the process of calming down a colleague because now she is there and all is good. Of course, she is also not just the boss of a magazine for women, but the boss of the most successful magazine for women as she tells us herself in the end. Think big! Shame they did not think big in terms of the entire absence of creativity and talent when it comes to this movie, not only with the lead actress. Another terrible moment for Wied was how she gets the name of the children's father at the hospital. So ridiculous. But the worst was maybe when she returns after her important business meeting to Halmer's place. All about that really. Be it how she screams out "oooh" or "aaaah" on one occasion while getting up (you know what I mean when you see it). Be it how she ends up naked in the man's whirlpool all out of nowhere. How classy! Remember it's the first time she is there and she barely knows the man. Or be it when they sang the Simon&Garfunkel song together. Where is their management when you need them. can't they file a copyright claim or something to prevent this movie from being shown in the future? Ridiculous enough already that this garbage movie is still on almost a decade later. And what is also pretty sad is that they made a sequel two years later while one film is certainly already one too many. Absolutely pathetic and I have no respect for most people who appeared in this one here, but even less for those who returned for the sequel. Halmer is one of them. He also has some bad moments mostly resulting from the script. One example would be when is under the sheet and makes a call to the female protagonist who is in the same room. Yes this was indeed intended to be funny I believe, but it was just one of the messiest and most unrealistic moments of the entire film. Okay, I guess by now you understand I did not like the watch one bit. The middle part is mostly boring, not as trashy as everything else before and afterwards. But still really low and probably also just one start out of five. Completely uninspired movie. It lacks completely in terms of realism. Tell me, how realistic is it that a man is father of three children without knowing and the day he is supposed to find out from the mother's mother, he has a terrible taxi accident and is in the hospital for a while. Of course, at the same time, the mother is also in a hospital. Honestly, the only thing missing really would have been the two accidentally meeting there. Sigh. But yeah, it was of course also the same day that the young man's father was about to lave for Canada for a long, long time, but hey can happen that he has to cancel the flight because triplets (already unrealistic enough per se) at your doorstep happens each and every day, doesn't it? Needless to say the two older characters get their romance story in the end as well and in order for Halmer's character being worthy of Wied's he must also have a doctor title and be a successful teacher who is truly appreciated by his colleagues and who wish he could stay there and keep teaching. Okay, finally one quick note about something that is always the case with these films: anti-male propaganda. The three babies are the reuslt of a ONS and yet the mother is never depicted in a bad light whatsoever despite having been in a relationship at that point. For a male in the same scenario in a movie like this, he would be depicted as the personification of evil. Here the approach is that she is too good anyway for the guy she was with. I applaud everybody in the audience (and that includes myself) who sees through this travesty. Absolutely disgusting. Double standards galore. And a little schmankerl for the end. Remember that the only negative plot inclusion that could have topped the film is that the babies' parents meet in the the hospital through coincidence. Yep, I kid you not. This is what in fact happens at the very end. Of course, the male also needs to gratefully accept that he has three children all of a sudden. He has to accept everything to be worthy of a female in his life. Sickening. Just like the scene when the two tell each other they love each other and how messed-up they are. At least that is true. I cringed so hard. It is absolutely unwatchable from beginning to end. And yes, of course the father is also a super successful explorer or something and the government constantly asks for his advice apparently when it comes to environmentalism. I don't even. Massive thumbs-down. Highly not recommended.
So we are right inside the story already. First, let me give you a few moments where I found Wied especially embarrassing. The best example is maybe when she speaks English on one occasion in the process of calming down a colleague because now she is there and all is good. Of course, she is also not just the boss of a magazine for women, but the boss of the most successful magazine for women as she tells us herself in the end. Think big! Shame they did not think big in terms of the entire absence of creativity and talent when it comes to this movie, not only with the lead actress. Another terrible moment for Wied was how she gets the name of the children's father at the hospital. So ridiculous. But the worst was maybe when she returns after her important business meeting to Halmer's place. All about that really. Be it how she screams out "oooh" or "aaaah" on one occasion while getting up (you know what I mean when you see it). Be it how she ends up naked in the man's whirlpool all out of nowhere. How classy! Remember it's the first time she is there and she barely knows the man. Or be it when they sang the Simon&Garfunkel song together. Where is their management when you need them. can't they file a copyright claim or something to prevent this movie from being shown in the future? Ridiculous enough already that this garbage movie is still on almost a decade later. And what is also pretty sad is that they made a sequel two years later while one film is certainly already one too many. Absolutely pathetic and I have no respect for most people who appeared in this one here, but even less for those who returned for the sequel. Halmer is one of them. He also has some bad moments mostly resulting from the script. One example would be when is under the sheet and makes a call to the female protagonist who is in the same room. Yes this was indeed intended to be funny I believe, but it was just one of the messiest and most unrealistic moments of the entire film. Okay, I guess by now you understand I did not like the watch one bit. The middle part is mostly boring, not as trashy as everything else before and afterwards. But still really low and probably also just one start out of five. Completely uninspired movie. It lacks completely in terms of realism. Tell me, how realistic is it that a man is father of three children without knowing and the day he is supposed to find out from the mother's mother, he has a terrible taxi accident and is in the hospital for a while. Of course, at the same time, the mother is also in a hospital. Honestly, the only thing missing really would have been the two accidentally meeting there. Sigh. But yeah, it was of course also the same day that the young man's father was about to lave for Canada for a long, long time, but hey can happen that he has to cancel the flight because triplets (already unrealistic enough per se) at your doorstep happens each and every day, doesn't it? Needless to say the two older characters get their romance story in the end as well and in order for Halmer's character being worthy of Wied's he must also have a doctor title and be a successful teacher who is truly appreciated by his colleagues and who wish he could stay there and keep teaching. Okay, finally one quick note about something that is always the case with these films: anti-male propaganda. The three babies are the reuslt of a ONS and yet the mother is never depicted in a bad light whatsoever despite having been in a relationship at that point. For a male in the same scenario in a movie like this, he would be depicted as the personification of evil. Here the approach is that she is too good anyway for the guy she was with. I applaud everybody in the audience (and that includes myself) who sees through this travesty. Absolutely disgusting. Double standards galore. And a little schmankerl for the end. Remember that the only negative plot inclusion that could have topped the film is that the babies' parents meet in the the hospital through coincidence. Yep, I kid you not. This is what in fact happens at the very end. Of course, the male also needs to gratefully accept that he has three children all of a sudden. He has to accept everything to be worthy of a female in his life. Sickening. Just like the scene when the two tell each other they love each other and how messed-up they are. At least that is true. I cringed so hard. It is absolutely unwatchable from beginning to end. And yes, of course the father is also a super successful explorer or something and the government constantly asks for his advice apparently when it comes to environmentalism. I don't even. Massive thumbs-down. Highly not recommended.
