Wickie und die starken Männer
is a movie starring
Jonas Hämmerle, Waldemar Kobus, and Günther Kaufmann.
The story of a young Viking boy who accompanies his father, the chief of their village, and his men on their adventures -- and often is the person who uses his wit and instincts to help the men in their times of need.
Viking village Flake's chief Halvar orders clever, tiny son Wickie to rob a knights convoy. The warriors have to take over but fail to see Wicki being abducted with a cargo of Eskimo slaves... See full summary »
Director:
Christian Ditter
Stars:
Jonas Hämmerle,
Valeria Eisenbart,
Waldemar Kobus
Long ago, in a little Viking Village called Flake, young Wickie lives a happy life. His father, Halvar, is the chief of the Vikings, and would have liked a son a little more courageous. So,... See full summary »
Five hundred years ago, Hui Buh cheated in a card game, thus was turned into a ghost by thunder lighting. For all this time, he has lived in the castle alone without anyone to scare. Until ... See full summary »
Director:
Sebastian Niemann
Stars:
Michael Herbig,
Christoph Maria Herbst,
Heike Makatsch
The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen (Nina Hagen) abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.
Director:
Sven Unterwaldt Jr.
Stars:
Otto Waalkes,
Mirco Nontschew,
Boris Aljinovic
Hannes wants to be a member of the crocodiles. To be a part of them he has to do something dangerous. When he is finally a member of them they experience dangerous adventures together.
Director:
Christian Ditter
Stars:
Nick Romeo Reimann,
Fabian Halbig,
Leonie Tepe
A home-made soccer team of kids have to get ready for a match against the team that has taken the kids' field to play and won't give it back unless they lose a match against the kids.
Director:
Joachim Masannek
Stars:
Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht,
Raban Bieling,
Sarah Kim Gries
An unsupervised junior soccer team loses their ace player to the leader of a rival gang en route to qualifying to play against the nation team and must have her back.
Director:
Joachim Masannek
Stars:
Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht,
Sarah Kim Gries,
Raban Bieling
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Director:
Franziska Buch
Stars:
Tobias Retzlaff,
Anja Sommavilla,
Jürgen Vogel
Vicky is a viking-boy who lives with his parents Halvar and Ylva in the small village Flake. He is a typical viking boy, but rather fearful. He is also not very strong but smart. One day he sails with the grown up vikings out to the sea and to experience a great and funny adventure.Written by
Cirdan
The roles of Faxe, Tjure, Snorre, Ulme, Urobe and Gorm were cast in the six-part TV show Bully sucht die starken Männer! (2008) on German network ProSieben. See more »
Crazy Credits
There are two extra scenes with "Ramon Martinez Congaz" during the end credits - one in the middle of the credits and one at the end of the movie. See more »
First of all I have to say that I never was a big fan of the original TV-series, but the main reason for this is the fact that I was born in the mid 80's and thus my cartoon heroes were those who came after Wickie. Thus I went into the movie without any expectations and ended up being pleasantly surprised.
The story is neither overly inventive nor epic, but there's always enough happening to keep the viewer interested.
The movie had plenty of fun moments, I couldn't help noticing that it's mostly targeted at the younger generation but there are also a few mature references. Altogether anyone who has a good relationship with their inner child should have a few good laughs throughout the playtime.
The cast is mostly unknown (at least to me since I don't watch that many German productions) but excellent. Almost every character has a striking resemblance to his or her cartoon counterpart and the acting is decent.
Yet again I have to bow in front of Bully Herbig when it comes to production value. The movie looks and sounds fantastic, if it had been a high-budget Hollywood production there probably wouldn't have been too much of a difference to the product at hand (Apart from the addition of some overdone special FX). The music composer Ralf Wengenmayr did an excellent job of working the original melodies into the score as well as adding some new ones which really matched the movie's mood.
Most people, Wickie fan or not, should enjoy it.
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First of all I have to say that I never was a big fan of the original TV-series, but the main reason for this is the fact that I was born in the mid 80's and thus my cartoon heroes were those who came after Wickie. Thus I went into the movie without any expectations and ended up being pleasantly surprised.
The story is neither overly inventive nor epic, but there's always enough happening to keep the viewer interested.
The movie had plenty of fun moments, I couldn't help noticing that it's mostly targeted at the younger generation but there are also a few mature references. Altogether anyone who has a good relationship with their inner child should have a few good laughs throughout the playtime.
The cast is mostly unknown (at least to me since I don't watch that many German productions) but excellent. Almost every character has a striking resemblance to his or her cartoon counterpart and the acting is decent.
Yet again I have to bow in front of Bully Herbig when it comes to production value. The movie looks and sounds fantastic, if it had been a high-budget Hollywood production there probably wouldn't have been too much of a difference to the product at hand (Apart from the addition of some overdone special FX). The music composer Ralf Wengenmayr did an excellent job of working the original melodies into the score as well as adding some new ones which really matched the movie's mood.
Most people, Wickie fan or not, should enjoy it.