Berlin, Berlin - The film

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Movie
Original title Berlin, Berlin - The film
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 81 minutes
Rod
Director Franziska Meyer Price
script Ben Safier
David Safier
production Michael Lehmann
Holger Ellermann
music Helmut Zerlett
camera Stefan Unterberger
cut Regina Bärtschi
Nils Landmark
occupation

Berlin, Berlin - The film is a German feature film by director Franziska Meyer Price from 2020 . The comedy is a continuation of the eponymous series broadcast from 2002 to 2005 in the evening program of the first and was based on a script by series creator David Safier and his son Ben.

Reviews

Karin Jirsak found in her review for film starts that Berlin, Berlin - The film was "very clear, pure fan service". This comes "maybe a little late, but still fun - and that is still primarily due to the still pithy Felicitas Woll, who really turns up in her cult role". The 80-minute film passed "about as quickly as an episode in Berlin, Berlin at the time " and presented "a lot of speed" and "unrestrained silly gags". Jirsak expressed criticism of the computer-animated trick sequences as well as the figure of Dana, "who as a road trip comrade with completely ridiculous sayings" and "highly dramatic backstory that doesn’t fit the feather-light Berlin, Berlin spirit at all" is annoying.

Kathrin Hollmer, editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung , described the film version as “a highly compressed series series”, which, unlike its TV predecessor, appears much “smoother and more adapted”. For the "need for nostalgia, there are many flashbacks from the series, but instead of the usual trick sequences, modern, less than charming 3D animations". Safier's script plays out many of the series' strengths, which can be found above all in the “absurd situations and dialogues” as well as the lightheartedness of “Felicitas Woll's game”, but it also presents little unusual ideas that Berlin, Berlin in the 2000s was still particularly good at would have made. So Berlin, Berlin - the film is missing "a lot of time for further development, especially the secondary characters".

Eva Thöne from Spiegel judged that the comedy “neither reproduces the charm of the series convincingly”, nor dares “to develop its own”. The film presented a plot that was “drawn by the hair of a 2000 ProSieben comedy”, referring to nostalgia with the “jackhammer” and reducing “main characters with depth” from the series to functions. In addition, Berlin, Berlin - The film offers "Dialogues that do not have the easily overstepped charm of the series, but simply dust". Only towards the end “does the whole thing take on a little more contour, because a self-deprecating way of dealing with the past and the not quite so fresh age of the characters is sprinkled”.

Anna Wollner from Deutschlandfunk Kultur wrote that the film ended up failing because of a concept that “was progressive in 2002, but will be a huge blow in 2020. The film acts as if there had been no development in storytelling and in the development of its characters in the last 15 years, is aimless and haphazard, even as a fan service failed ”. The “absurd road trip topic” is “lost in old-fashioned humor and tripped up gags. Even the comic strips, the trademark of the series, have received a digital computer update and look like foreign bodies ”. The “original male ensemble around Jan Sosniok and Matthias Klimsa” would also be “degraded to idiotic secondary characters”, while Sandra Borgmann's guest appearance was far too short.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Jirsak: the FILM STARTS editorial criticism . Film starts . Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ Kathrin Hollmer: Escape through the eastern western Harz . Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ Eva Thöne: Lolle, it's dusty . Spiegel.de . Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  4. ↑ Anna Wollner: Lolle deserved better . Deutschlandfunk culture . Retrieved June 28, 2020.