7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough

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Movie
Original title 7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Sven Unterwaldt
script Bernd Eilert
Sven Unterwaldt
Otto Waalkes
production Douglas Welbat
music Joja Wendt
camera Peter von Haller
cut Norbert Herzner
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest

Successor  →
The 7th dwarf

7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough is a film comedy from 2006, which is intended as a sequel to the film 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest by Otto Waalkes . The film contains motifs from various fairy tales , with the allusion to Rumpelstiltskin being the most striking. The title is a reference to the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough . In addition, reference is made to the film adaptations of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings .

action

Some time has passed since the events of the first part . Snow White is now queen and has had a child from the court jester, who has since left her. Evil appears in the form of Rumpelstiltskin in the castle and demands the surrender of the prince. Court servant Spliss had previously helped the magician nominee out of a predicament and promised the baby against full hair. When Snow White refuses to hand it over, Rumpelstiltskin gives her two days in which to find out his name. Otherwise he'll get the child. In her need she turns to her friends, the seven dwarfs .

In the dwarf house, however, Snow White only meets Bubi, who informs her that the other six friends have left to seek their fortune. What, however, only the viewer suspects at this point in time: Rumpelstiltskin is behind it, who has the ability to imitate the shapes and voices of other people. In Snow White disguise, it turned the dwarfs against each other. So Bubi sets out to reunite all the dwarfs and find out the name of evil.

After he has reunited the septet in a medieval town, they set off to see the only person who could know the name: the white Helge. The dwarfs find its dwelling abandoned. Only one message remained, which says that Helge has gone to the "Palace of the Fish". With the help of a magic book, a map and the talking magic mirror, the dwarfs immediately set off to where the palace should be: in the other world. However, this turns out to be the actual reality of a major German city (Hamburg).

Meanwhile, Rumpelstiltskin follows the progress of the dwarfs and tries again and again to prevent them from being successful through interventions and masquerades by other people (mostly German comedians). In addition, it has an alliance with the former queen, who now lives as a forgetful witch in a crispy house and works as a healer and therapist. From here Rumpelstiltskin starts his attacks on the dwarves, but fails again and again.

After an odyssey, the dwarves finally arrive at the “Palace of Fish”, which is just a fish stall wagon. The white Helge who runs it doesn't know the name either, to the disappointment of the seven, but gives them a clue who could help: the witch. The dwarfs then look for a magic mirror in the other world, through which they can return to their own universe.

When they arrive at the witch, the dwarfs are given the name they were looking for, which Rumpelstiltskin wrote down beforehand. However, by distraction and another disguise, he succeeds in slipping a forged document on the seven. In the end, the seven get to Snow White, Brummboss and the baby in the castle, where they first call Rumpelstiltskin the wrong name ("Frau Holle"). However, Bubi can say the correct name shortly before the ultimatum expires. He knew him from the start, but his friends never let him have a say.

This will save Snow White and the child and defeat evil. In addition, Spliss declares the horse trade null and void, since the promised head of hair has now fallen out again.

Extended version

Von Sieben Zwerge - The forest is not enough exists an extended version that has not yet been released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc .

Alternative scenes were used and a subplot was added. In the theatrical version, after the events with Udo Lindenberg and the tandem trip, you see a stylized map on which the path of the dwarfs through the city is shown as a dashed line. Then you reach the "Palace of the Fish".

In the Extended Version the map view is missing, but a new scene was added shortly after the tandem ride. Here you can see Rumpelstiltskin calling a man named Mario with a disguised voice . Mario is a showman and is looking for dwarf actors, whereby Rumpelstiltskin praises the seven dwarfs for him and “sends them over”. Mario matches the seven, gives them silly dwarf clothes and puts them as extras in the fairy tale theme park he runs. Here they are supposed to work in a scene with Snow White, embodied by Mario's grumpy wife. However, the dwarfs are by no means enthusiastic about their job. At the same time, Rumpelstiltskin sneaks into the park to spread strife in a Bubi masquerade and to get to the palace map. However, the dwarves can escape Mario and also remove the previously stolen card from him, while Rumpelstiltskin feels Mario's anger. Then it continues as in the cinema version in front of the “Palace of Fish”.

The final setting was changed accordingly, in which Rumpelstiltskin presented all of his masquerades to Snow White and the dwarfs. The Bubi-Alter-Ego was also inserted here.

There is also the version with an alternative ending, which is included as an extra on the film DVD. It advises how one should punish Rumpelstiltskin. The dwarfs make a suggestion and in the last shot you see Rumpelstiltskin appearing in a silly disguise in Mario's fairy tale park.

Film music

The soundtrack to the film is largely interpreted by the actors of the "Seven Dwarfs".

  1. Get up if you like dwarfs - 7 dwarfs
  2. Sunny - 7 dwarfs
  3. I'm a cook - 7 dwarfs
  4. Just make one happy - 7 dwarfs
  5. Sleep child sleep - 7 dwarfs
  6. A giant of dwarfs - 7 dwarfs
  7. Knusperhaus Command - 7 dwarfs
  8. The Love Of My Life - Jasmin Wagner
  9. Snow White's Lullaby - 7 Dwarfs
  10. Kings' Blues - 7 dwarfs
  11. Rumpelrock - 7 dwarfs
  12. Witch house - 7 dwarfs
  13. The dwarf march - 7 dwarfs
  14. Dwarf Symphony No. 77 - 7 Dwarfs
  15. Making Of Video "Dwarves In The Wood" - 7 Dwarfs
  16. The Dwarf March - Various Artists

Trivia

  • Track 7¾ is an allusion to track 9¾ from the Harry Potter series.
  • Markus Majowski could not be there for the continuation due to scheduling reasons. The actor Gustav Peter Wöhler takes on his role .
  • As in the first film, the camera moves over a map that looks like The Lord of the Rings . Certain place names and terrain points appear, the names of which are corruptions of the names of all actors. Names like “Neumannsheim” (Axel Neumann), “Olms Klamm” (Hans Werner Olm), “Cosmashiva-Allee” (Cosma Shiva Hagen), “Sankt Helge Kapelle” (Helge Schneider) or “Unterwaldt” (director Sven Unterwaldt) appear ) on. “Olms Klamm” is also reminiscent of “Helms Klamm” from The Lord of the Rings .
  • The head of blond hair that Hans-Werner Olm wears as split ends in the film is based on the hairstyle of entertainer Thomas Gottschalk .
  • Actress Mirja du Mont plays Little Red Riding Hood in the film. In the first part, Mavie Hörbiger took on this part.
  • Actor and voice actor Douglas Welbat , who also worked as a producer, has a role in the film as operator of a fishing shop. He is also the narrator who speaks the introduction and epilogue in a sonorous voice.
  • Rumpelstiltskin talks to himself, alluding to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings .
  • The “Palace of Fish”, in which the white Helge works, is an allusion to the film Jazzclub , in which Helge Schneider sometimes works in a similar fish cart.
  • The song Hexenhaus (sung by the white Helge) by Helge Schneider is an allusion to the song he sung Katzenklo .
  • While the dwarfs surround the witch house, they sing a part from Only You from the Flying Pickets .

criticism

“... wants to entertain unconditionally, which he will without question succeed in with a young audience and adult viewers who simply forget their everyday worries and want to spend a fun evening. What one person finds terribly uncomfortable is a great pleasure for the other, after all, when it comes to humor, one can argue wonderfully. Viewers who liked the first part can plan a visit to the cinema without hesitation, fans of more subtle comedy should rather look elsewhere. It is not surprising that there is not much left of the once original and lively humor of the young Otto Waalkes, but it certainly leaves a slightly bleak impression on friends of his early work. "

- filmstarts.de

" Number revue with differently successful gags and alienated fairy tale motifs that do not fit into a closed plot and lose in sometimes only moderately comical cameos by well- known comedy stars."

- Lexicon of international film

“Anyone who can look forward to small jokes will get their Christmas present here: Titanic founder Bernd Eilert and director Sven Unterwaldt will not shy away from any stupid silliness. The furnishings and special effects are very lovingly made for this. "

- TV movie

"Otto Waalkes and the Who's Who of German TV comedians do toddler theater - of a professional standard, but stupid for adults."

- cinema.de

Locations

continuation

Otto Waalkes announced plans for a computer-animated version of the 7 dwarfs in 2007 : The prequel The 7th dwarf came to the cinemas on September 25, 2014.

Awards

  • 2006
    • Golden screen for 3 million viewers in 18 months
    • Bogey in gold for over three million moviegoers in 28 days
  • 2007

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 7 dwarfs - The forest is not enough . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 569 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for 7 dwarfs - The forest is not enough . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c 7 Dwarfs - The forest is not enough. In: DVD-Forum.at - Das Entertainment Magazin. DVD-Forum.at, July 10, 2008, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ filmstarts.de
  5. ↑ 7 Dwarfs - The forest is not enough. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ TV feature film
  7. ↑ cinema.de
  8. ↑ Interview with Otto Waalkes , by Miriam Schwarz, rtv 37/2007, September 7, 2007 ( Memento of February 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18473935.html
  10. ↑ fbw-filmbeval.com

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