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Gib Gas - Ich will Spaß! (1983)
Great movie for a serious Nena fan
As I said, a great film if you love Nena. A horrible movie if you're in it for thought-provoking artistic film-making...but it doesn't try to do all that. It is basically an excuse for the beautiful Nena Kerner to showcase her smile and sing some songs.
The "plot" is pretty thin, but easy enough to follow. Nena plays "Tina" (THAT's a stretch...) a cute but bored girl in a small Bavarian town. She is constantly looking for the right guy, but all the guys she meets just seem to bore her to death. Her latest attempt at Mr. Right is named Tino, a hulking jock of a dude who views Tina as his property and nothing more. After Tino is fired from his taxing job as a go-cart mechanic, he decides to leave town. He invites Tina to come with him but due to complications she is unable to meet him in time, and he leaves town without her.
Meanwhile a newcomer has shown up in town. Robby, played by Marcus, has fallen in love with Tina and when Tina misses her appointment with Tino, Robby comes to the rescue and offers to take her "anywhere" on his motorcycle. Tina gets on the bike with him and they head off. Robby thinks they are going on a romantic adventure, not knowing that Tina is actually using Robby to chase down Tino.
Robby and Tina go through all sorts of ridiculous situations, such as being chased by bikers, having their motorcycle run over by a bus, running out of gas, etc. Through it all though Tina decides to give Robby a chance and she soon falls in love with him. She then admits to Robby that she had been using him to chase down Tino. Despite Tina's declarations of love, Robby runs off in a huff. He gets on a train to Venice with Tina in hot pursuit.
Needless to say, the film ends on a happy note, with Tina and Robby together, and even the troublesome Tino rides off with a boat full of Italian chicks. This is not a great film, it isn't even a good film by technical standards. But Nena's glowing energy makes it worth watching again and again. It really is a fun time, especially after several beers (preferably German).
Note: avoid the English dub of this film (Hangin' Out) at all costs. Gib Gas Ich Will Spass, the German title is much better as it contains the original dialog from Nena and the other actors. Subtitles will not be needed if you are English as the story is so simplistic that you can understand what is going on without knowing exactly what they are saying.
Brain Damage (1988)
Hilarious movie
What a hilarious film this is. There are basically 2 main characters in the film. One is Aylmer, a 12 inch worm who needs to feed on brains (preferably human) to survive. The other is Brian, a young man who becomes addicted to a drug that Aylmer injects into his brain. During this drugged state, Aylmer uses Brian as a host to find victims so that he can consume their brains.
The special effects are decent, especially during the kill scenes. Unfortunately, most of the death scenes are very repetitive. They consist of Aylmer leaping from some hidden location and attaching himself to a victim's forehead, where he munches through their skull into their brain whilst they flop about in agony. There is one notable exception however:
In the film's best sequence, Brian has just been drugged by Aylmer. He stumbles into a club suitably named "Hell". There he meets a pretty but incautious hooker. They dance for a while. Brian, stoned out of his mind, is lured by the girl into the club's basement. Brian begins to pass out and the hooker leans him up against a wall. She grabs Brian's crotch and remarks "feels like you got a real monster in there" not knowing of course that the "monster" is in fact Aylmer hiding in Brian's crotch area. Excited, the girl decides to perform oral sex on Brian. She soon gets more than she bargains for. She gets down on her knees, unzips Brian's pants, and just as she opens her mouth, Aylmer burst from the pants and into the girl's mouth. Aylmer forces himself down the girl's throat, and she basically chokes to death as Aylmer burrows through the back of her throat into her skull.
After that the rest of the film is a bit of a let down (how could it not be?) but there are still some good sequences, including one scene where Brian pulls his own brains out through one of his ears (very gory). The acting throughout the film is quite campy, and the music is actually very good.
The ending is rather down beat as virtually every character in the film dies, with the exception of Brian's room mate brother. There are also very few like-able characters in the film. Vicki Darnell, who plays the hooker, is one of the few sympathetic (!) characters in the film. Props to her for putting up with this perverted director's crap, as I've heard shooting the scene mentioned above was a nightmare for the actors involved.
Overall it is an enjoyable, although at times unpleasant, little movie. I prefer it over Basket Case, and it is miles ahead of anything Frank H. has done lately.