Potato Salad - Don't Ask!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Potato Salad - Don't Ask! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael David Godfather |
| script |
Torge Oelrich Michael David godfather |
| production | Miguel Angelo Pate Hauke Schlichting |
| music |
Otto Waalkes Andrew Reich Eko Fresh The muscle pigs |
| camera | Wolfgang Busch |
| cut | Michael David Godfather |
| occupation | |
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Potato Salad - Don't Ask! is a German horror - comedy from the year 2015 , also known as youth film can be classified. The director was Michael David Pate , who also wrote the script together with Torge Oelrich . The cast consists mainly of German Youtubers like Oelrich, Joyce Ilg , Dagi Bee and Oğuz Yılmaz and Philipp Laude , both members of Y-Titty . Otto Waalkes , Martin Schneider and Katy Karrenbauer can also be seen in other roles . Waalkes was also active as a producer and composer of the film. The cinema premiere was on July 19, 2015 in Heide . The film received a consistently negative response from critics and rating portals.
On January 30, 2020, the sequel Potato Salad 3 - The Musical was released .
action
Leo Weiß is an unpopular and poor student in an elite school. Even after switching to a normal school, he remained unpopular with his classmates, where he only made contact with the Spacken duo Thorsten and Thorben. He falls in love with a "pearl" called Obertussi, who is already together with the school beau Helmut.
A zombie epidemic breaks out at the new school. Only Leo, Thorsten and Thorben and the nerd girl Katrin escape the catastrophe and flee to the windowless school library. The police that were called are not very committed and assume that gastrointestinal flu is rampant. The school building is being quarantined. The group of non-infected wander around the building, where they meet Perle and Helmut, who were hiding in the room of the Theater AG. There they forge the plan to put on zombie-style make-up in order to smuggle themselves outside through the excited zombie horde undetected. Unfortunately, one of the group's cell phones rings when the police call back, which wakes the zombies out of their trance-like state. Leo is grabbed by the zombie pack, the rest of the troop flees to the toilet.
It turns out that Leo was not eaten up but discovered that the condition of classmates and teachers is reversible. If you teach the zombies something, brain cells form and cognitive skills come back. Leo trains the zombies in handicrafts, dancing or maths and transforms them back into humans. This is how he becomes a celebrated and acclaimed hero. In the end, it turns out that Leo his classmates on the school ball with a comparatively harmless zombie has infected virus (it was the Mettigel and not punch ) to finally make friends.
production
The production companies are Take 25 Pictures and Waalkes' production company TransWaalFilm. The latter is said to have paid the largest share of the production costs of around one million euros. Shooting of the film began in March 2015. Torge Oelrich had already announced the film in November 2014 on his YouTube channel. The set was the secondary school in Wesselburen , where Oelrich graduated from secondary school in 2008. Some YouTubers filmed their work on set and ended up uploading them as a vlog on YouTube. The German theatrical release was on July 23, 2015.
Even before the premiere of the film, the director Michael David Pate stated that potato salad is not a “critic film”, but primarily addresses a “very young target group [...] with a very special sense of humor”. But he also hopes to be able to address the parents with the film.
When asked how they came up with the title potato salad , Oelrich said that they couldn't think of anything better. Hence the subtitle "Don't ask!"
The film appeared in home entertainment in since 2019. Disney owned 20th Century Fox .
public relation
Advertising is mainly done on the YouTube channels of the actors involved. Teasers and the trailer were uploaded directly to the Oelrich channel. The target group are therefore young people and subscribers to the channels of the YouTubers playing along. The main channels of the YouTubers involved have a gross reach of more than 21.6 million viewers. The Carlsen Verlag brought parallel to the film Fresh Torges potato: the book out. You can also buy T-shirts as merchandising .
Gross profit
The film was shown in more than 500 cinemas in German-speaking countries and grossed around two million euros in the opening week, of which around one million euros was spent on the first weekend. With a total of around 360,000 visitors, it achieved total box office income of over 2.5 million euros. 250,000 visitors and a result of 1.8 million euros were expected.
continuation
In 2017, Freshtorge released a joking trailer for an alleged sequel to the film. However, this was just a self-deprecating parody of the inferior quality of the first part.
On August 24, 2019, Oelrich announced on YouTube that there would be a sequel in the cinema in spring 2020. The sequel will be produced under the working title Potato Salad 3 - The Musical . The production is again taken over by Take 25 Pictures. Filming began on October 3, 2019. The sequel was released on January 30, 2020. The official trailer was uploaded to Freshtorge 's YouTube channel on January 4, 2020 .
reception
The film met with a consistently negative response from critics and audiences.
In the IMDb , the film received an average rating of 1.3 out of 10 points from more than 6,200 users, making it the worst rated film in the database shortly after it was released.
While the film advertised and was also advertised by a number of well-known YouTubers, in the meantime a number of other YouTubers have distanced themselves from the film or expressed their criticism with varying degrees of clarity, including Simon Unge and BrokenThumb as the most prominent examples .
On filmstarts.de, Christoph Petersen only gives the film 1 out of 5 possible points and explains that the jokes in the film are neither "anarchic, shocking or even somehow new - but frighteningly old-fashioned." Even if the film is aimed at children and Young people judge that the film is immensely disappointing, "and if this is really supposed to be the brave new media world, then YouTube easily throws us back half a century in terms of humor."
The Westphalian News panned the movie, "the stupidest jokes silliest pun and stale gags gathered between hard and in moderation cheeky commute". Jonas Hoffmann criticized on the channel All about the E! also the flat and simple humor of the film and gave the film the lowest rating of 1 out of 10 points.
YouTuber and film critic Robert Hofmann mentioned that he wasn't disappointed after the teaser and the trailer , but still found the film bad and so he awarded 3 out of 10 points in the genre and 2 out of 10 points in general . He said in his YouTube video that there was a good set and a large cast and praised Bianca Heinicke's acting performance , who resembled the chantal from Fack ju Göhte in the film . However, he complained that the pun jokes are too often physically presented and that this is no longer funny.
David Hain commented on GameStar .de: “As a comedy, potato salad is a disaster because the film is just not funny enough. Many of the gags are ancient, as are most of the comic dinosaurs that play here. "
The rating of Quote Meter was more positive: " Potato salad is loud, brutal and its gagbanality can be compared with the early works on screen by Otto Waalke, who does not work as a co-producer of the film for nothing," and Cinema called the film "only to a limited extent funny, but true to the target group. "
Web links
- Official website
- Potato Salad - Don't Ask! in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Potato Salad - Don't Ask! on Moviepilot
- Official website of the production company "Take 25 Pictures"
Individual evidence
- ↑ YouTube film premiere: The "potato salad" is served , Spiegel Online , July 19, 2015
- ↑ a b Vivian Alterauge: Review of the film "Potato Salad": One Youtube for the length of a feature film, please! , Stern.de, July 23, 2015
- ^ Criticism on welt.de
- ↑ Excerpt from the chat on April 28, 2015 with YouTuber Freshtorge
- ↑ Potato Salad - Don't ask! Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Jakob Koch: "Potato Salad": Freshtorge's YouTube film attracts thousands in cinemas. In: welt.de . July 30, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.mediabiz.de/film/firmen/programm/kartoffelsalat/159708
- ↑ http://www.moviepilot.de/news/pixels-adam-sandler-auf-dem-kino-charts-thron-154123
- ↑ Potato Salad 2 - Trailer (2017). Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Potato salad continued! - The incredible announcement! Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Casting questionnaire / performer self-assessment. (PDF) Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Potato Salad 3 - The Musical TRAILER. Accessed January 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Bottom 100 Movies at imdb.com, accessed October 23, 2015
- ↑ Potato Salad (2015) at imdb.com, accessed on February 24, 2019
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZyyXxKIXCE
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOoVJ9Uo2Ok
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpcjJI0FMoc
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9I-2x5meIw
- ↑ Film starts: Potato Salad
- ↑ “Potato Salad - Don't Ask!” Short clips of full length , Westfälische Nachrichten , 23 July 2015
- ↑ youtube.com: All About The E! Kinoreview # 2 Potato Salad Review
- ↑ Robert Hofmann's review of "Potato Salad - Don't Ask!" on YouTube , July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Potato salad in the film review - 30 years past YouTube . gamestar.de, July 24, 2015.
- ^ The cinema critics: "Potato salad - don't ask!" , quotenmeter.de
- ↑ Cinema: Potato Salad