I thought this movie was OK. From all the hype maybe I was expecting too much. I thought the ideas of the film were interesting but more could have been done with them. I don't really get the stuff that people are going on about on the discussion boards about the film making out that Communism being evil or something. To me it seemed like the text was nostalgic for the era of the GDR and, I think rightly, showed some areas of society that were better organised in the GDR than they are in the West. Back to the film itself, I thought there were some pretty good laughs but the good idea of re-creating the GDR was not really worked through. It also did not feel like he had that much of a connection with his mother that he would do that for her. The guy who played "Denis" was very cute though!
Review of Good Bye Lenin!
