RudiRe
Joined Dec 2005
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Everything in this flic feels amateurish, flat and uninspired.
I guess none of the 'actors' ever saw an acting school from the inside.
The kind of folks who hang around filmschools in order to get "discovered" by would be directors of the same calibre, try to avoid their saxonian accent in the original german language release. That's what most energy is spent for. So there's not much left for real acting.
The story (if any) is a bore. Elements of satanism and exorcism are forced to be part of some kind of storytelling which the spectator saw hundred times before.
The location castles obviously somewhere in the eastern part of Germany are nice to watch and justify the 1 point, you have to give at imdb, but two or three pittoresque outside-postcards don't tell a story.
Don't let yourself be misled by the above 15 ratings, which culminate in a 7.0 out of 10 rating. They must have been generously given by uncles, grandpas and many other "affiliates" of this worst movie, I've ever seen since corona closed down movie theatres.
Or in other words: This movie is very good if you want to learn how NOT to do it.
Way under filmschool level - for beginners.
The story (if any) is a bore. Elements of satanism and exorcism are forced to be part of some kind of storytelling which the spectator saw hundred times before.
The location castles obviously somewhere in the eastern part of Germany are nice to watch and justify the 1 point, you have to give at imdb, but two or three pittoresque outside-postcards don't tell a story.
Don't let yourself be misled by the above 15 ratings, which culminate in a 7.0 out of 10 rating. They must have been generously given by uncles, grandpas and many other "affiliates" of this worst movie, I've ever seen since corona closed down movie theatres.
Or in other words: This movie is very good if you want to learn how NOT to do it.
Way under filmschool level - for beginners.
This movie wants to be a funny satire, but it's just a piece of embarrassing garbage.
Camera, music and set design are very good, yet each of the actors seems to have another definition of comedy and the director was unable to communicate them HIS sense of it. Topsy-Turvy in the ensemble, although some good German actors do their best (esp. Ulrich Mühe).
The absolute disaster is the screenplay. Neither comedy nor drama, it keeps searching for an identity. That's why the whole movie fails - Neither fish nor meat - just another silly joke-ridden but unfunny, pseudo-operatic flop by Dany Levy as so many before.
Chaplin (The Great Dictator) and Mel Brooks (The Producers - Frühling für Hitler) have achieved with ease, what this movie tries hard but doesn't convey at all.
Dany Levy still has to learn a very important film school lesson - screen writing (and in part directing) is just not his cup of tea.
He's much better in fund raising money for (his) movies than making them.
As most Levy movies, they are a waste of the German taxpayers money, funded by costly German TV-stations and funds of various state-departments.
Camera, music and set design are very good, yet each of the actors seems to have another definition of comedy and the director was unable to communicate them HIS sense of it. Topsy-Turvy in the ensemble, although some good German actors do their best (esp. Ulrich Mühe).
The absolute disaster is the screenplay. Neither comedy nor drama, it keeps searching for an identity. That's why the whole movie fails - Neither fish nor meat - just another silly joke-ridden but unfunny, pseudo-operatic flop by Dany Levy as so many before.
Chaplin (The Great Dictator) and Mel Brooks (The Producers - Frühling für Hitler) have achieved with ease, what this movie tries hard but doesn't convey at all.
Dany Levy still has to learn a very important film school lesson - screen writing (and in part directing) is just not his cup of tea.
He's much better in fund raising money for (his) movies than making them.
As most Levy movies, they are a waste of the German taxpayers money, funded by costly German TV-stations and funds of various state-departments.