V8 - you want to be the best

Movie
Original title	V8 - you want to be the best
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2013
length	106 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 JMK 10
Rod
Director	Joachim Masannek
script	Joachim Masannek
production	Christian Becker
music	Bananafishbones
camera	Benjamin Dernbecher
cut	Claus Wehlisch
occupation
Georg Sulzer : David Michele Maya Lauterbach : Luca Michele Samuel Jakob : Robin Veit Eight Klara Merkel : Kiki Lilou Nick Romeo Reimann : Hell GTI Emilio Moutaoukkil : Naik I. Dadidas Tom Hoßbach : Weber, the spider Paul Alhäuser : Da Vinci Heiner Lauterbach : Robin's father Christoph Maria Herbst : Commissioner Habicht Adam Bousdoukos : Angelo Michele Michelle Monballijn : Angelina Michele Mina Tander : Andalee scrap Raban Bieling : Wild Milk Man Ilja Richter : Talent scout / godfather Christian Tramitz : Superiors of Commissioner Habicht Jürgen Tonkel : Kart track owner
chronology
Successor  → V8 - The revenge of the nitrous

V8 - You want to be the best is a German children's film by the director Joachim Masannek from 2013 . The film is based on the book of the same name by the director, who also wrote the screenplay. The main roles are cast with Georg Sulzer , Maya Lauterbach , Samuel Jakob , Klara Merkel , Nick Romeo Reimann and Emilio Moutaoukkil .

The film was shown in German cinemas on September 26, 2013.

action

David Michele is aiming for a career as a racing driver. To achieve this goal, he took on three summer jobs so that he could buy his own kart. Unfortunately, he has to take his sister Luca with him to all of this work. During his jobs he meets Kiki Lilou and Robin Veit Acht, with whom he is in the same class. Kiki comes from the south of town, where she lives with her mother in a junkyard, and Robin is the son of rich parents and owns his own kart. All four are chosen to form a team to take part in the secret and legendary races in the castle . After initial difficulties and misunderstandings, the children come together to pass the first qualification race. Because the opponent is superior to them in all respects and does not always work with fair means.

Film music

1. Move out of the way! - Dadidas, Naik I.
2. Give Me Speed - Bananafishbones
3. Bring me the bolides - Moutaoakkil, Emilio / Lauterbach, Maya
4. Andale - Timothy
5. Chasing Stars - Bananafishbones
6. I want to be a racing driver! - Michele, David
7. I'll hit the gas - Bananafishbones
8. Here we go - Moutaoakkil, Emilio
9. Set the World On Fire - Timothy
10. I don't care - Bananafishbones
11. Who Do You? - Monballijn, Michelle
12. Gurkenmann - Bananafishbones / Sulzer, Georg A.
13. Solo Per Te - De Muro, Antonello
14. I'll get you anyway - Commissioner Habicht / JR Cotton
15. Fire department - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
16. Ausbüchsen - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
17. Lion's Cave - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
18. Construction Begins - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
19. Coins - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
20. Badger buried - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
21. Talent scout - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
22. Newspapers - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
23. Underpants - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
24. The hunt begins and Hasenfuß - Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
25. Church - East / Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
26. First exit - Ost / Melita, Andrej / Horn, Peter
27. Pups - Lilou, Kiki / Michele, David

Reviews

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) judged: “Joachim Masannek has varied the successful but now exhausted concept of his 'Wilde Kerle' film series. Instead of playing football, the young heroes have to prove themselves in a car race, and again the plot is located in a fantasy world in which plausibility and conventional narrative logic are given little importance. For example, the protagonist David walks around with the green color and a cucumber nose from his job as an advertising character for much longer than could be justified dramatically. "

Cinema was not very impressed by the film and said: “The horsepower spectacle around a mysterious racing circus, filled with puffed up macho poses and pithy sayings, is trash cinema for kids. If the FSK were to take its mandate seriously, it would have to classify the crude role models of the film - mindless speeders and lascivious pit babes - as harmful to young people. "

Also bs-net was of a similar opinion and wrote: "bombastic adventure spectacle that makes use of countless genre film role models to unleash a demanding and unrealistic trivial entertainment for children and adolescents. The little 'heroes' can pretend to be precocious, tough and cool in order to achieve their longed-for goal of being the very best. "

continuation

The sequel V8 - The Revenge of the Nitros was released on October 29, 2015. In addition to the child actors of the first part, Christoph Maria Herbst and Heiner Lauterbach can again be seen in the main roles. Joachim Masannek again directed.

literature

• Joachim Masannek : V8 - Come if you dare !: Volume 1 . Bastei Lübbe (tree house), 2013, ISBN 3-8339-0239-6

Web links

• V8 - You want to be the best in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for V8 - You want to be the best . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 883 K).
2. ↑ Source: German Film and Media Assessment (FBW)
3. ↑ Source: www.cinema.de
4. ↑ Source: www.bs-net.de
5. ↑ TV Spielfilm , issue 23/2015, page 224