Happy Metal - All We Need Is Love!

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Movie
German title Happy Metal - All We Need Is Love!
Original title Pop Redemption
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2013
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Martin Le Gall
script Martin Le Gall, Alexandre Astier
production Axel Guyot
music Franck Lebon
camera Julien Marc
occupation

Happy Metal - All We Need Is Love! (Original title Pop Redemption ) is a French music - comedy from 2013. Directed by Martin Le Gall to the main cast of the French rock musician belongs Julien Doré . The film was released on June 5, 2013 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in February 2014 .

action

The Dead MaKabés are an unsuccessful black metal band. Band head and singer Alex still lives at home and cares for his seriously ill grandmother, drummer Pascal runs an Asian restaurant with his wife Yue-You, bassist JP has just become a father again and guitarist Erik dreams of being a celebrated rock star. For years the band has been going on an unsuccessful summer tour , organized by singer Alex. Now that the musicians are approaching their 30th birthday, JP, Erik and Pascal decide that they want to end the group. But Alex succeeds in motivating her again with an appearance at the renowned Hellfest . Before that, however, the Dead MaKabés are supposed to give a concert in the “Star Club” and the musicians drive to the venue in Pascal's new minibus. However, except for Alex, none of the band members know that he paid the club owner to let the band perform. The performance ends in a disaster and the band hastily leaves the place. On their journey they are followed by the club owner who rams them with his pickup and then threatens them with a gun. In the event of an emergency stop, the coffin, which the band uses as a prop, slides off the roof of the minibus and kills the club owner. Full of panic, the four flee with the demolished bus, which soon gives up the ghost. In order to cover their tracks, they sink the broken vehicle in a lake.

In the meantime the dead person was discovered. A pensioner who happened to drive past the scene of the event saw the musicians but did not stop them. Because of the corpse paint that the band members still wore from their appearance in the "Star Club", he had thought they were undead . The closest place is in the middle of the preparations for the Strawberry Festival, an annual hippie festival , but the local policewoman Martine Georges is investigating the murder of the musicians. However, she has to hand them over to the superordinate gendarmerie . In the meantime, the band members have changed their appearance and stole their minibus from a group of bathers in order to continue to Hellfest. They end up at the strawberry festival, where they play for the Norwegian hippie band All We Need Is Love! held. They have no choice but to make an appearance under this guise that turns out to be the best of their lives. But the tattoos on Erik's hand give them away and Martine has them arrested. With the help of Martine's teenage daughter Julia, who is a black metal fan herself, the Dead MaKabés manage to escape in a police van . When they arrive at Hellfest, they missed their performance. Singer Alex manages, with a little blackmail , to get the headliner Dozzy Cooper to allow them to perform in front of him. In the meantime, the other three musicians learn from Julia that Alex's grandmother has just passed away. Together the Dead MaKabés decide to play this one last concert and are cheered by the fans. After the performance they are arrested by the police, but everything is finally cleared up.

reception

The reviews of the film were mixed. Cinema magazine writes that the film starts out promisingly, but then slips into "irrelevant village clothes". The MovieMaze.de website praises the “quietly told story”, the “successful humor” and the very good actors. However, the director did not manage to fully exploit the potential of the story, in particular the gruesome portrayal of the police fits "into a German comedy from the 1970s" rather than the tragicomic humor of the story. Overall, the website gamona.de rates the film positively and describes it as a “good-mood comedy of the easy-going style”. Here, too, the reviewer emphasizes the performance of the leading actors and, despite all the bizarre aspects, attests the film a few moments of “more profound seriousness”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Happy Metal - All We Need Is Love. cinema.de , accessed on March 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Florian Tritsch: Happy Metal - All We Need Is Love! MovieMaze.de, accessed on March 22, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Peter Osteried: Happy Metal - All We Need Is Love! - Movie review. gamona.de, accessed on March 22, 2014 .