Otto's Eleven

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Movie
Original title Otto's Eleven
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Sven Unterwaldt
script Bernd Eilert
Sven Unterwaldt
Otto Waalkes
production Malte Grunert ,
Hans-Otto Mertens ,
Otto Waalkes
music Karim Sebastian Elias
camera Peter von Haller
cut Stefan Essl
occupation

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Otto's Eleven is a German comedy film from 2010. Directed by Sven Unterwaldt , Otto Waalkes starred in his eighth feature film. After 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest and 7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough, the third collaboration between Waalkes and Unterwaldt.

action

Otto lives with his friends Arthur, Mike, Oskar and Pit on the beautiful Frisian Spiegeleiland in the North Sea. Since their services are not paying off very well through tourism, they are planning to attract more visitors to the island with a self-made commercial on the Internet. Since Otto is a painter and a valuable painting by a Dutch artist can be seen in one of their spots, this attracts the art-loving casino operator Jean Du Merzac with his assistant Erika Rossdal to the island. They distract Otto and steal the painting after Otto refused to sell the family heirloom. When Otto notices the theft, he and his friends set off on the mainland in Bad Reibach to get his painting by Du Merzac back.

In Du Merzac's Casino, the five friends meet the employees Corinna, Ling-Lu and Jenny, who help them in their search for the painting. It turns out that it is kept in a safe in Du Merzac's office on the first floor above the casino. In order to get into the office space unnoticed, the men around Otto decide to dig a tunnel from a cellar opposite the casino. The cellar belongs to Auntie's apartment, where Otto introduces himself as a ghost hunter in order to get into the cellar. His colleagues are presented as auntie's nephews. She soon sees through the trick, but is still helpful to the five men.

The tunnel construction fails because of the material, and so a new plan is devised: The reporter Harry Hirsch wants to show the new painting on television and therefore travels to Du Merzac with a cameraman. After his arrival by helicopter, Harry Hirsch succeeds in holding him in front of the casino and distracting the cameraman with Ling-Lu's help.

The plan works like this: while Pit as cameraman takes the picture with someone other than Harry Hirsch, Oskar as Jean Du Merzac distracts the real one. As a signal, the person who plays Harry Hirsch should pull up the curtain, which Arthur should look out for, and then give Mike the signal to detonate a rocket so that Pit and the fake Harry Hirsch can escape in time. Oskar, Mike and Arthur all try their hand at Harry Hirsch and are very well received, but then they would not be able to fill their own positions. So Otto Harry has to play Hirsch. In the end, they also come to the safe after detours. They are almost arrested in the end, but surprisingly the chief of the guard, the buck, helps them.

Du Merzac's evaded tax money of 11 million euros was also stored in the vault, which Pit takes away. All eleven friends, including the security guard Peter and Du Merzac's dog Abraham, are now millionaires and live in abundance on Spiegeleiland.

criticism

“Of course you first question yourself: Didn't you find it all funny sometime in the seventies and early eighties? Or is that mild transfiguration that makes Otto in the memory what most serious artists fear to be: cult somehow? Whether you liked his humor or not, what Otto once did well was his sense of zeitgeist and popular culture paired with perfect timing for punch lines. [...] Waalkes lost this feeling today. "

- The time

“[A] comedy that, on the other hand, naturally cannot or does not want to break out of the boundaries that it has set itself, whose humor often just comes across as very shallow and where not every gag is ignited. Furthermore, the story gets a little too bogged down in the second half and cannot quite keep the momentum from the beginning. 'As far as they could', however, everyone involved has undoubtedly given their best, and fortunately you can see this passion in the finished film. Otto Waalkes is still a big kid, but this time you don't have to be one yourself to be able to have fun at 'Otto's Eleven'. "

- Filmszene.de

“The meeting of Otto and top reporter Harry Hirsch alias Olli Dittrich alone is a great moment of old slapstick art . [...] With so much joy in playing, one likes to look over one or the other gunfire. Because thanks to ideas like this, 'Otto's Eleven' becomes unobtrusive and personable fun without riot jokes. [...] Harmless family fun where parents can indulge in old Otto memories and kids can have a great time. "

- cinema

"Sucked out clothes by Otto Walkes, which parodied relevant American comedies, but does not get beyond a series of puns and broadly rolled out gags."

- film service

Locations

Schauspielhaus Berlin as Du Merzacs Casino

Trivia

  • The title and parts of the film refer to the film Ocean's Eleven .
  • Reporter Harry Hirsch is a part of Otto Waalkes' shows and books from the 1970s / 80s.
  • Otto quotes several of his gags from the Otto show or from his live shows, for example Otto performs his "gymnastics for skat players" gag from the Otto show at the gaming table in the casino.
  • Max Giermann can be seen in his role as Stefan Raab from Switch reloaded (but here under the name "Stefan Fink").
  • The friends moving into the old lady's basement and the tunnel construction there are reminiscent of the film Ladykillers with Alec Guinness from 1955 and the remake with Tom Hanks from 2004.
  • The mirror scene between Otto and Olli Dittrich, in which they both duel as reporter Harry Hirsch, is a copy of the famous slapstick film scene from Duck Soup by the Marx Brothers .
  • The pseudo-French name "Du Merzac" is supposed to remind of "Dummer Sack" and is at the same time a corruption of the name of its actor.

Award

The German Film and Media Review drew Otto's Eleven of the rating "valuable".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Otto's Eleven . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 190 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Otto's Eleven . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Criticism in Die Zeit
  4. ^ Criticism on filmszene.de
  5. ↑ Critique on cinema.de
  6. ^ Criticism on filmdienst.de
  7. ↑ http://www.shortnews.de/id/772092/Otto-Waalkes-plant-Parodie-von-Ocean-s-Eleven
  8. ↑ See fbw-filmb Bewertung.com