Reviews

You have to look at this film differently; of course you can not take what is being showed to us as the true history of the easter island, but you also can't look at it as just some failed flick. No, this movie is taking as little as we know and fills the rest with partly far fetched, partly very realistic developments of events. We know, there is no more forest there, we know they've built these statues, we know that they couldn't survive. It would be different if any of them would have written a diary of the events taking place, but that hasn't happened. Whether long or short ears, whether upper or lower class: To build the statues they most likely used all the little forest they had left... surely an act of hopelessness... that in such a situation of distress there is competition and different ideas on how to react is obvious. The "egg"-race is also very believable. Less likely is the story about the iceberg... while they do indeed show up there from time to time the particular timing is over the top. With what they have filled in the blanks has already been discussed: Competition between two rival tribes, political problems that eventually not only end up in the deforestation and the ecological disaster related to it, but also degrade of a civilization leading them backwards even as far as cannibalism. History has shown what can cause uproars: from class-systems, lack of food, but also fight over a woman. Here all three aspects have been mingled up, blurring what we do not know anyways. And as far as nudity goes: guess what - we all born that way - believe it or not! As far as language goes: I had preferred if they tried to talk in some sort of made up language and then subtitled. This movie is a gem in its own right, but you will have to watch it - sceptically, yet with a mind open for fantasy - for yourself to see if you agree or not.

...but when I just watched Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Junior" (1994) I immediately was reminded "Seitenstechen" with Mike Krueger. If you compare to the comments to "Junior", they mention also "Rabbit test" as compareable movie with a pregnant man. While I havn't seen "Rabbit test" as of yet; "Junior" was just as funny as "Twins", but "Seitenstechen" (probably exactly because of Mike Krueger being the one to deliver it) is a couple notches better!!!

I do wonder indeed, if Arnie has seen this movie before he starred in "Junior"...