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Otto Fiction

Original title: Otto's Eleven
  • 20092009
  • 1h 35m
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4.6/10
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Otto Waalkes in Otto Fiction (2009)
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    • Sven Unterwaldt Jr.
    • Bernd Eilert
    • Sven Unterwaldt Jr.
    • Otto Waalkes(screenplay)
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    • Otto Waalkes
    • Mirco Nontschew
    • Rick Kavanian
    • Sven Unterwaldt Jr.
    • Bernd Eilert
    • Sven Unterwaldt Jr.
    • Otto Waalkes(screenplay)
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    • Otto Waalkes
    • Mirco Nontschew
    • Rick Kavanian
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    Mirco Nontschew
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    Max Giermann
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    Arnd Schimkat
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    Dorothea Walda
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    • Jean Du Merzac
    Stephanie Berger
    • Rossdal
    Sara Nuru
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    • Corinna
    Jennifer Weller
    • Ling-Lu
    Jasmin Schwiers
    Jasmin Schwiers
    • Jenny
    Nino Sandow
    • Schwarzer Peter
    Olli Dittrich
    • Harry Hirsch
    Sebastian Weber
    Sebastian Weber
    • Kameramann
    Hans Böhrs
    • Kapitän
    Paul Maximilian Schüller
    • Lenny
    Paula Paul
    Paula Paul
    • Lennys Mutter
    • (as Andrea Paula Paul)
    Martin Hentschel
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      Nicole Kidman auditioned for the role of Rossdal.
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      Featured in Wetten, dass..?: Wetten, dass..? aus Düsseldorf (2010)

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    3/10
    It makes you feel like walking through a burnt ruin, which you once was a palace
    Otto (as usually playing himself or rather his stage-persona) and his friends live on the North-Sea-island of Spiegeleiland ("Fried Egg Island") and seek to lure tourists over the internet. Unfortunately they get a visit from corrupt Casino-owner Du Merzac (Sky du Mont; Otto's rival in this very first movie 30+ years ago, the name being a name-play on "stupid scumbag") discovers that Otto has inherited a valuable painting and decides to steal it. Otto and his entourage follow the thief to the mainland and, by digging a tunnel under his casino, try to return the valuable heirloom.

    I've mentioned it in other reviews, but will say it again here: in his high time, the 1970's and 80's, there was virtually no way to get around Otto Waalkes. As kids, one would trade Otto-audio-tapes, books and other merchandise among each other, rattle down his jokes, which pretty much everybody knew by heart already and the parents would let their kids stay up late, so they could watch his stand-up routine (a mix of slapstick, linguistic humour, spoofs and musical interludes). Not to mention, this first cinema-movie ("Otto – Der Film") remains one of the bestselling local films of all times. Indeed, though no fancy intellectual humour, appealing more to the bourgeois rather than the high-class, Otto had built a memorial for himself – and that's pretty much where the decline started. Did I say decline? No, perhaps "decay" would be the better word yet.

    In this 40-odd years, Otto has not changed or progressed one single iota, performing – or rather recycling – the same old jokes, sticking 100 percent to his quirky stage-persona (including during interviews), to an extent where one seriously asks himself: was this ever funny? And, if so, why? Sure, one can look through the rosy lenses of nostalgia but essentially it's like listening to an old, worn-out uncle, who (literally) keeps telling the same joke that amused you when you were a kid and he was still a young dude. In short: nothing short of pathetic. And it's not like Otto had reached a pinnacle with the pitiful display in "Otto's Eleven" yet – for that you'd have to wait another six years, until he produced and starred in "Kartoffelsalad", a movie – if you want to call it that – which very deceivingly stayed on the bottom of IMDb's "Bottom-100"-List for a good amount of time.

    It must be said, Otto's greatest strength in his glory time was, that he had a touch on the pulse of time. His parodies were usually spot on and as he once quirked at his musical parodies: "I would just sit around and wait for a song to become famous, so I could take the p**s out of it". It's very clear here that Otto has lost that touch a long time ago. As one can imagine from the basic storyline, Otto and his crew merely spoof films like "Ocean's Eleven", "Ladykillers" and a number of other crime-films, peppered up with the same, lame old jokes that have been in his repertoire for a long, long time.

    As for the rest of the cast: Mirco Nontschew's form of comedy can only be described as "pulling grimaces", Rick Kavanian is usually the sidekick of one of the most successful Otto-clones (Bully Herbig) and Max Giermann will probably best be remembered for his Klaus Kinski impersonation, which he performs to perfection, although the routine is getting slightly thin. Highlights would be Sky du Mont, an otherwise rather versatile actor, who unfortunately never got as far as he could have and Olli Dietrich. Dietrich, best known for his role in the improvisation-show "Dittsche", plays the journalist Harry Hirsch, which used to be one of Otto's most famous and enduring comedy-alter-egos. None of those mentioned are able to lift this flick beyond dire mediocrity. More than 3/10 I cannot give and even have a suspicion that one of those points came from sheer pits and for the old-times-sake.
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      • August 21, 2009 (United States)
      • Germany
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      • Casino Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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      • TransWaalFilm
      • Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany
      • Zipfelmützen GmbH & Co. KG
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