Erkan & Stefan

"Erkan und Stefan" is a very funny movie. And the best thing: it even has a PLOT! Basically, it's a sometimes suspenseful and serious secret service thriller BUT it has Erkan Maria Moosleitner and Stefan Lust starring in it. That's what makes this movie a comedy. First time director Michael "Bully" Herbig delivers a very well-crafted piece of German cinema - believe it or not. It is a worthy forerunner of "Manitu's Shoe". Hilarious and highly original ideas and gags, very funny "dialogue" combined with a stylish look, fine orchestral score and good overall acting. A movie to be seen more than once and perfectly fit for a good home cinema party. A must if you liked "Spies like us" and "Dude, where's my car?".

8 out of 10

I was looking in the TV Guide for movies that come from Germany and I found one called The Bunnyguards, so I watched it and I laughed myself silly! I wanted the DVD but its not available here (I could order it from Germany but it doesn't have subtitles) It was played again so I taped it and watch it from time to time.

Anyway, I looked for info on it and found out its real name is Erkan & Stefan, but I know it by its Australian title: The Bunnyguards.

Some people who I know from Germany do not like Erkan & Stefan because of their accents, but not being German myself, I didn't notice anything. The jokes are good, but some Germans might find their accents off-putting.

I think this movie is funny and if the DVD had English subtitles on all the extras (having a 2 disk edition with only the feature having subtitles would be bad) I would buy it up in a snap!

I recommend it to anyone looking for a laugh and a pretty good story.

Erkan Maria Moosleitner and Stefan Lust have a good comedy act, Michael "Bully" Herbig is a renowned director for comedy clips; unfortunately, the three are completely out of their depth in this attempt at a cinema - sized comedy. The result is like watching a 5 - minute "Stefan & Erkan" skid played back at greatly reduced speed to fill the 90 minutes running time. Kind of what you would expect from a German comedy, in a bad sense.

If you live in or near Munich, you have probably already noticed the kind of teenagers that dye their hair jet black, hang around train stations and talk German with a pseudo-Turkish accent (regardless of where they come from). Erkan and Stefan are just like those kids, minus the hair dye. They use the same pathetic teenie slang, always want to appear as hard as possible and are basically idiots. All in all, they're a very accurate representation of the stereotype. The movie is about these two getting involved with the BND and CIA and even out- (or should I say under-?) witting them in their particular idiom. I can recommend this to everyone who has seen, and maybe made fun of, the kind of kids described above. It's truly hilarious. To those who don't like really "dumb" (as in "you don't need a brain to laugh at this") movies and those who had their sense of humour surgically removed, hands off this. You'd be wasting your time.

I gave 9 of 10 points. I was sitting in tears nearly the whole movie, because I had to laugh!

The story of course wasn't excellent, but it also wasn't boring. Erkan & Stefan are assigned to become bodyguards for the beautiful Nina. While doing this job they come between the "front-lines" of BND and CIA. Of course the two are neither born bodyguards nor gentlemen, so they run from one disaster into another; and they do this in such a funny way, that when you watch some scenes you won't be able to stop the tears! As actors those two "dumbly grinning" characters do quite well, better than some so called professional.

You think, the speech of the two heroes is curios or "pseudo-foreign"? Well, if you hear quite a lot Turkish-German people in Munich speaking exactly like them, you will remember Erkan & Stefan. And maybe, in 10 years it might have become the common speech of the youth. (God forbid!)

So, if you like to laugh, watch this movie!