Erkan & Stefan

I have seen this movie today and I think, it's really worth looking at, when you just want to have a little fun. Of course some of the jokes are not the best ones you've ever heard, but it's never boring and you can have good fun.

So if you want to have fun, watch this movie and take a good friend and two or three bottles of beer with you (so did I).

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.

Great movie. I was laughing all time through. Why? Well, I am from Austria, I can get along with the German (Bavarian) kind of humor. So I guess this movie makes only sense watching when you are German native speaker. Stefan and Erkan both are talking in a new kind of turkish-german accent, which became really popular in our Countries (GER & AUT). But of course they are very stupid. As in every comedy your personal humor will decide, whether thumb up or down.

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 enjoyed Erkan & Stefan – a cool and fast story which didn't get bogged down in detail. Those two guys are great to see and are able to come up with new ideas all the time. The high quality of picture and cut support the movie a lot.

Erkan & Stefan show that the German film industry is capable of transferring successful Hollywood concepts with local `satire' into our cinemas.