Fully ripped off

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Movie
German title Fully ripped off
Original title Identity Thief
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Seth Gordon
script Craig Mazin
Jerry Eeten
production Jason Bateman
Pamela Abdy
Scott Stuber
music Christopher Lennertz
camera Javier Aguirresarobe
cut Peter Teschner
occupation

An American comedy film from 2013 is completely ripped off . The German theatrical release was on March 28, 2013.

action

Sandy Patterson, with his pregnant wife Trish and their two children, doesn't exactly lead a luxurious life in Denver , Colorado . He has to be careful with his money and he is refused the hoped-for bonus payment for the third year on the grounds that his company must first recover. As an accountant, he only knows how well his company is doing and how high all the bonus payments from his bosses are. With the frustration of having been betrayed, almost all employees decide to quit and set up their own finance company under the leadership of Sandy's colleague Daniel Casey. At first things go well, but soon Sandy is arrested. He allegedly hit a bartender and failed to show up for court in Florida . With his overdrawn credit cards and charges that he was involved in a drug and arms deal, it quickly emerges that a young Florida woman has stolen his identity and is now committing crimes under his name. Since the police can't do anything about it because of bureaucratic hurdles and he is threatened with dismissal for defamatory behavior, Sandy wants to track down the identity thief within a week and hand it over to law enforcement in Denver.

After traveling to Florida and renting a car, he quickly finds the identity thief. The first time they meet on the highway, there is an accident, an argument and then a fight, with the identity thief stealing his car and driving away. He follows her home, where the fight starts again, which is interrupted by Julian and Marisol who visit the identity thief under the name Diana in order to get revenge for the fake credit cards. She had previously had some made for Paolo, who is now in jail and sent his two henchmen out to bring Diana to account. Since Sandy and Diana can successfully escape from the two, Skiptracer is also sent on the hunt for her for a reward of 50,000 US dollars . He also finds the two relatively quickly in a motel, where they spent an involuntary night full of arguments and lies. Skiptracer kidnaps Diana and Sandy has to follow her. He can free her with a daring stunt on the highway and both continue their journey to Denver in the stolen van from Skiptracer. However, when the car gives up and Sandy loses his money and cell phone to a snake attack, both of them have to find a way to get money back the next day.

So in St. Louis , Sandy asks Diana to use her credit card trick to get his unloved ex-boss's money. To do this, they gain access to a branch, steal the data and use it to first relax in a luxury hotel. At dinner the two get closer for the first time and instead of arguing as usual, they talk about their respective lives. Diana explains that she does not know what her name is because she has always lived alone and had to make ends meet with the help of different identities. Shortly afterwards, both of them are arrested for the incident in the branch and taken away. The subsequent drive to the police station does not take long, however, because Diana and Sandy escape from the car. Since they have already been followed by Skiptracer, the police pounces on the criminal, allowing them to escape one more time.

In the evening they make it home successfully, with Sandy introducing Diana to his family. It behaves in an exemplary manner. While Sandy is alone with his wife, he has the first pangs of conscience as to whether it is right to let Diana, who is actually good at heart, go to prison. Although she almost destroyed his life, the shared experiences showed him that there had to be another solution. But before he can tackle it the next morning, Diana has long since confessed everything to the police, so that Sandy is off the hook and can keep his job. The contact with Diana does not break off later. Because a year later the Patterson family visits Diana in prison and there is a lot of good news. Diana copied her high school diploma, can be dismissed early in three years if she is well managed and already has a job with Sandy. Sandy has finally found her birth certificate, which finally tells her her real name. Diana is actually called Dawn Budgie.

criticism

James Berardinelli denounced the film as a "questionable compilation of fat jokes, sex gags and slapstick". The film is not only "bad", but downright "reprehensible". He criticized the bad script and said that it “fails to make the leading actress appear likeable”, rather the character played by McCarthy is “troll-like and mean”. The slipping culminated in the statement "every minute seen is like an hour in a dungeon."

Los Angeles Times' Betsy Sharkey said the film should be "locked up for its crimes and crimes against filmmaking," noting that Bateman and McCarthy "steal jokes in so many places that [...] you can." the film in turn could forgive ”. McCarthy in particular is the star of this film, who can come up with full physical effort and lots of good scenes.

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times described this film, which is packed full of “stereotypes, gun violence, visual clichés”, as a “lazy comedy” . That is not due to McCarthy, who is like "a supernova" that "burns the show down" and with "sharp, funny tongue and her expansive physique dominate the screen".

In Germany, Oliver Kube wrote in the picture : “The problem with this comedy - credit card fraud is just not funny. The actors can still struggle. "

background

The film had been in preproduction since 2011, with Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy earning the lead early on. In January 2012 it was announced that Seth Gordon would be directing. The earliest script was written by Jerry Eeten, although this was revised by Craig Mazin and Seth Gordon finished.

Some scenes were filmed in the 191 Peachtree Tower and adjacent Peachtree Street in Atlanta , Georgia .

In March 2012, the theatrical release was given for May 10, 2013, with it being brought forward to February 8, 2013 in August 2012. All in all, with a production budget of 35 million US dollars by the beginning of March, the film was able to reap over 107 million US dollars in the USA alone.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. James Berardinelli: Identity Thief on reelviews.net of February 8, 2013 (English), accessed on March 4, 2013
  2. Betsy Sharky: Review: Laughs stolen in 'Identity Thief' on latimes.com on February 7, 2013 (English), accessed on March 4, 2013
  3. Manohla Dargis: A Woman Who Unleashes Her Inner Medusa on an Everyman on nytimes.com from February 7, 2013 (English), accessed on March 4, 2013
  4. Oliver Kube: Film review: Shop until the doctor comes on bild.de from March 27, 2013, accessed on March 31, 2013
  5. ^ Bateman McCarthy Team for ID Theft . August 15, 2011. 
  6. Seth Gordon set to helmet Identity Thief . 17th January 2012. 
  7. Identity Thief (2013) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed March 4, 2013