All stars: De serie (1999–2001) User Reviews

Deserves not just one Emmy but a handful

[JP Sarti · 6 February 2001]

I only saw the episode that won the International Emmy Award, not the whole series, but I guess all other episodes (at least from the same season) are as brilliant. "All Stars" is one of the best sports comedy-dramas I've seen, combining good plot, great dialogue, nuanced humour, functional camerawork that enhances comic aspects, and of course an inside look on football (or "soccer" if you're American). The series is about an amateur Dutch football team, and the award winning episode is about a friendly game against a German team (telling any more would be a spoiler). The characters are loveable, the pace is accurately slow, there's plenty of memorable quotes (of course only if you happen to speak Dutch) and brilliant comic use of football history and scorers' gestures. I really hope I get to watch the whole series and the movie it was based upon.

All stars is so real

[k_luifje · 5 March 2001]

All stars - de series (based on the movie from Jean van de Velde, 1997, who also made this title) is superb to the movie. The movie was not bad, pretty good actually: there were soccer players and they all had their problems they had to deal with. But in the movie they weren't on the field so much. And that automatically means that they were not together all the time. That is a shame, because there can only be funny or dramatic scenes when the guys (a bunch of losers, ordinary people)are together. This is why the series is so good: they play soccer in every episode, they shower in (almost) every episode and this means a lot of funny and dramatic conversations between the guys. And some other thing that's very important: the actors are great, perfect. Especially Thomas Acda playing Willem, the keeper, a loser with a wife, kids and a business who is tired of his wife and his kids and likes his business. Unfortunately he has quit All stars -de series, that's a shame. But all the other actors make up for his missing. Roeland Fernhout and Dirk Zeelenberg are perfect as the gay Bram (Fernhout was the first Bram in the series), Kasper van Kooten IS total loser Peter who started to play with the all stars when they all were seven, wile the others started as they were six and this is still a problem for him. He is not really 'one of them'. Daniel Boissevain and Kees Boot are splendid as the 'angry young man' Johnny and Raymbi Sambo plays his role (named Paul) with so much fun that you just start to love him. And if there isn't enough quality acting there are Antonie Kamerling and Cas Jansen as Hero and Nemo. They are brothers and they are always stoned and this makes them say the most idiot things, that means , if they are able of speaking properly. This is a perfect series with perfect actors and much of laughs and sometimes a little drama which makes you think. But the laughter is the most important ingredient of this Emmy Award winning Dutch series.

A shame

[anonymous-3 · 2 March 2000]

I know. All Stars was not the best movie ever made. But it was fun. Well made and effective. This TV-series that came out later, does not have the same feeling about it. The direction is just a bit less tight. The acting a bit sloppier. The scripts not as inspired. A shame. I'm sure they could have made a sequel for the movie theatres that would have been much better. Now they just made mediocre television.

emmy award

[leone-10 · 3 December 2000]

november 2000 ALL STARS (De Serie) won an International Emmy Award in the DRAMA Category. All dutch All Stars-lovers are very proud. On December 6 th. a new series of All Stars will start on dutch TV. We hope that it will be as good as the first series, or even better !!