My made up wife

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Movie
German title My made up wife
Original title Just go with it
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Dennis Dugan
script Timothy Dowling ,
Allan Loeb
production Jack Giarraputo ,
Heather Parry ,
Adam Sandler
music Rupert Gregson-Williams
camera Theo van de Sande
cut Tom Costain
occupation
synchronization

My Fictional Wife (Originally Just Go with It ) is an American romantic comedy with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston from 2011 . Timothy Dowling and Allan Loeb wrote the script and Dennis Dugan directed. The film was produced by Sandler Produktion Happy Madison and Sony Pictures and was released in German-speaking cinemas on February 24, 2011. The plot is based on the classic film Die Kaktusblüte from 1969.

action

Shortly before his wedding, the young doctor Danny Maccabee learns that his bride has cheated on him several times and only wants to marry him because of his promising career - the wedding is about to burst. When Danny later wants to get drunk in a bar and has put his wedding ring on his finger, he realizes that he can easily gain the trust of women with this ring. In the following years, this is exactly what his scam is: he plays the unhappily in love husband who finds comforters - for exactly one night. He doesn't want more than that, as he can't be disappointed by a woman that way.

Twenty years later, Danny is a successful cosmetic surgeon. At a party he meets the attractive, 23-year-old teacher Palmer and spends a night on the beach with her. The next morning she finds his wedding ring, which he didn't put on this time of all times, and wants nothing more to do with him. However, Danny has fallen in love with her, goes to school and explains to her that he has long since filed for divorce from his wife because she has a Swedish lover. Palmer is inclined to get back together with him, but first wants to meet Danny's wife. In his distress, Danny persuades his assistant and practice manager to play his wife. The meeting with Palmer goes well too - until Katherine's children call their mother on the cell phone and Palmer learns that Katherine has a son and daughter - apparently with Danny. Danny gets more and more entangled in his lies and now has to ask Katherine's children Maggie and Michael to help him. But Michael forces him all - Danny, Palmer, Katherine, and the kids - to vacation in Hawaii together; Danny's cousin Eddie also turns up at the airport, who takes on the role of Katherine's new lover.

Katherine is less and less convinced of the whole thing, but just as she decides to fly home, she meets her old rival from school, Devlin, and her successful husband Ian, allegedly the inventor of the iPod. Without further ado, Katherine introduces Danny as her husband, and the tangles go on as Eddie is assigned the task of distracting Palmer. Since he introduced himself as an Internet sheep dealer, he is forced to reanimate a sheep suffering from suffocation in an open-air restaurant in a rustic way, which he succeeds in doing. Danny more or less lives up to his role as a father and teaches Michael to swim. Katherine and Danny develop feelings for each other more and more, but right now Palmer asks Danny if he would like to marry her. Left alone at the pool bar, Katherine meets Devlin. She confesses the truth, whereupon she tells her that her husband is gay and not the inventor of the iPod and that she will get a divorce. They both embrace and do not notice that Danny has come: he canceled the wedding with Palmer because he realized that he loves Katherine. In the end, Danny and Katherine get married, and Palmer meets tennis player Andy Roddick on their flight home.

production

The film was shot in Los Angeles and Hawaii on the islands of Maui and Kauai between March 2, 2010 and May 25, 2010.

background

  • In the film, Danny Eddie Simms, played by Nick Swardson , mentions Dolph Lundgren at times . Which, as is emphasized, does not mean the Swedish performer, but only a name that is identical. In the English version he is characterized as a German and in the German version as an Austrian .
  • Danny Maccabee's fiancée at the beginning of the film is Adam Sandler's wife Jackie Sandler in real life .
  • At the end of the film, Palmer meets Andy Roddick, who is her (Brooklyn Deckers) husband in real life.
  • This is Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston's first collaboration. The two have known each other for 20 years, even before one of them became famous. They met through some mutual friends and shared meals. She was a guest at his wedding in 2003. The release date is February 11, 2011, Jennifer Aniston's 42nd birthday.

Reviews

The film received almost devastating reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website counted only 25 positive reviews of 132 professional reviews, which corresponds to a value of 19%. However, the film was received with benevolent reactions from the general public, as 61% of around 80,000 users rated the film positively. This audience reaction is in turn confirmed by IMDb - another platform on which normal users can submit their film reviews - because there, more than 91,000 users gave the film an average of 6.4 out of 10 possible points. (As of January 14, 2015)

English language reviews

Richard Brody said in the New Yorker that seeing the film was consistently a pleasure (“is a delight throughout”), but it was a shame that the many intricacies of the script left the capable actors stuck in predetermined routines (“too bad that the script's many complications leave the able cast "(...)" stuck in mandatory routines ").

James Berardinelli certified Adam Sandler that he could not play convincing romantic lovers because his characters were simply not grown up enough ("Sandler is perhaps not an ideal romantic lead - it probably has something to do with the state of arrested adolescence"). The filmmakers also missed the fact that the most important rule of a romantic comedy is a convincing love story ("the filmmakers have forgotten the # 1 rule of the genre: the lovers must be shown to believably fall for each other"). He also wondered who would like this film, because Sandler fans will find Sandler too good, comedy lovers will be disappointed because of the mild humor and fans of romantic comedies will be annoyed because of the bungling story. One must therefore ignore my invented wife and stay away from the film ("It's difficult to determine who might be pleased by this movie: Sandler fans won't like the neutering of their hero, comedy lovers will be disappointed by the tepid level of humor, and rom-com devotees will be annoyed by the bungling of a staple storyline. Ignore the 'just go' plea and just stay away ").

In Time magazine, Mary Pols regretted how often Jennifer Aniston changed her film partner and didn't have the chemistry with any of them and stumbled from film to film despite her comedic talent (“It's been depressing to see the spunky, appealing Aniston, who is a gifted comedian, flounder in movie after movie ”). In a broader sense, the same goes for the film (“In a broader sense, that's what the movie did as well”), but although it is not demanding, it spreads a good mood (“I'd never call Just Go with It sophisticated , but it's got a good-natured vibe ").

Roger Ebert feared in the Chicago Sun-Times that the people in this film were so incredibly stupid that it would be politically incorrect to laugh at this (“The people in this movie are dumber than a box of Tinkertoys. One fears they 're so unfortunate it's not Politically Correct to laugh at them "). However, this is probably less of a problem, because the film is simply not funny (“That's not a problem because Just Go With It is so rarely funny”).

In the New York Times , Anthony Oliver Scott found that the film was passive-aggressive, cheeky, but nice, sometimes obnoxious and occasionally quite funny ("passive-aggressive, naughty but nice, sometimes obnoxious and occasionally quite funny") to him but only as "that one with Sandler and Aniston in Hawaii" will be remembered ("the movie is likely to live on in my memory" (...) "as that one with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Hawaii").

German-language reviews

Dimitrios Athanassiou came to the conclusion on moviemaze.de that the film was “not too original”, but “relaxed enough” and that is why it is “fun when you don't see a lot of things too closely”.

In the Berliner Zeitung , Katja Lüthge compared the film with the original and came to the conclusion that only the original was a “heartwarming comedy”, because in the remake “the dynamics with the relocation of the action to a luxury hotel in Hawaii in the repeat of the same schoolboy sexist jokes ”. "The biggest problem is Adam Sandler himself.", Because while other characters have vulnerable moments from time to time, his character is too upright, which is why he does not seem balanced.

In the Frankfurter Rundschau , Michael Kohler criticized "that the slightly dusty charm of the original has been polished up with all sorts of puns, hearty situation comedy and prepubescent banter". For him, the cast “strangely discouraged” and in comparison to Brooklyn Decker “Sandler and Jennifer Aniston look like character actors”.

Mariana Jang rated the film on RTL.de with 3.5 out of 5 points and described Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler as a “well-coordinated team with a good chemistry”. However, the film goes "sometimes over the limits of good taste".

Negative awards

publication

The film was released in the United States on February 8, 2011 in 3,548 theaters and was able to reap $ 30.5 million of its $ 80 million production cost on the opening weekend. Worldwide, US $ 213.9 million were grossed, 103 million of which in the United States alone. In Germany, the film opened on February 24, 2011 and attracted 1,286,721 people to the cinemas, which corresponds to box office earnings of around 12.1 million US dollars. The film was released on July 7, 2011 on DVD and BD .

synchronization

The German synchronous processing was created in the studio of Berliner Synchron AG Wenzel Lüdecke in Berlin .

role actor German voice actor
Danny Maccabee Adam Sandler Dietmar miracle
Katherine Murphy Jennifer Aniston Ulrike Stürzbecher
Devlin Adams Nicole Kidman Petra Barthel
Palmer Dodge Brooklyn Decker Julia digit
Ian Maxtone-Jones Dave Matthews Tobias Kluckert
Eddie Simms Nick Swardson Christian Gaul
Maggie Murphy Bailee Madison Valentina Bonalana
Adon Kevin Nealon Stefan Gossler
Michael Murphy Griffin Gluck Cedric Eich
Ernesto Keegan-Michael Key Florian Halm
Waiter Darrin Lackey Benjamin Stöwe

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for My Invented Wife . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 463 V).
  2. ↑ Age rating for my invented wife . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ My fictional wife at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  4. ↑ Richard Brody: Just Go With It ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ James Berardinelli: Just Go with It on reelviews.com of February 12, 2011 (English), accessed May 21, 2011
  6. ^ Mary Pols: Just Go with It? Jennifer Aniston Runs Away with It . on time.com February 10, 2011, accessed May 22, 2011
  7. ↑ Roger Ebert: Just Go With It on suntimes.com from February 9, 2011 (English), accessed on May 22, 2011
  8. ^ Anthony Oliver Scott, The Road to True Love Is Paved With a Whole Lot of Lying . on nytimes.com on February 10, 2011, accessed May 22, 2011
  9. ↑ Dimitrios Athanassiou: My invented wife ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ^ Katja Lüthge: Womanizer on tour of lies . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 24, 2011, accessed on May 21, 2011
  11. ↑ Michael Kohler: Wilted cactus blossom . fr-online.de of February 23, 2011, accessed on May 21, 2011
  12. ↑ Mariana Jang: Adam Sandler & the beautiful women . RTL.de from February 23, 2011, accessed on August 17, 2011
  13. ↑ a b My Fictional Wife on boxofficemojo.com, accessed May 22, 2011
  14. ↑ Evaluation of the top 75 film titles of 2011 according to socio-demographic as well as cinema and film-specific information ( memento of December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at ffa.de, accessed on December 13, 2013
  15. ↑ My invented wife on synchronkartei.de, accessed on May 21, 2011.