2/10
Never succeeds as a comedy
12 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Well, actually the very first sequence had at least a nice punchline when the main character is born, the parents ask what it is and the doctor says something like "It's an a**hole". This, however, is probably the comedic highlight from a film which ended up very disappointing for me. It is full of nudity, swearing, vomiting, violence against animals... To me it felt, like the makers wanted to be so offensive that they totally forgot to include any humor in this film. One example is how the boy speaks about an erotic fantasy with his older sister. It is based on a comic from Walter Moers, who is also known for "Käptn Blaubär" and the director is Michael Schaack who also worked on several Werner movies. Hein Blöd, a character from "Käptn Blaubär" can be seen during several scenes also in this film on television. These Werner movies are actually pretty good, especially the first, so action can be vulgar and offensive and still funny. However, they did not manage to make it work here.

The most notable thing about the cast is maybe that the main character, a little boy, is voiced by a grown woman. The voice is pretty unbearable, which was probably intended to make the kid seem more annoying. Anyway, it is tough to sit through it and keep listening to it, even if the film does not pass the 80-minute-mark. And Helge Schneider is in the movie as well and brings at least some humor occasionally. I like him a lot, but I wonder what went through his head when he agreed to voice the grandpa here. Another thing about the characters is that their noses are bigger than their heads, which is similar in the Werner films as well. There is some known songs included, but none of them were particularly memorable, Being a huge Johnny Cash fan, I also did not like the main character's disrespectful comments about the Man in Black.

So yeah, the film has quite a few disturbing scenes which also make it absolutely inappropriate for children. During one scene, the main character acts as a person who helps people in trouble via telephone and tells a caller that suicide is a solution. For a large part of the film, the main character abuses a small dog and I wondered why the dog owner would still give her dog to the kid for a walk. The film mocks old and sick people in every form you can imagine. And the film ends with a huge orgy that came out of nowhere and had nothing to do with the very weak plot and story lines. So yeah, all in all, I absolutely do not recommend this movie. You can make an offensive film funny or entertaining, but this does not even come close to such an achievement.
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