Purely Joyful Movie!

Lack of good storyline.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Like the previous reviewer, I'm vacationing on Cozumel, Mexico and caught about 3/4's of the movie on TV. We were getting ready to head out the door and ended up staying in to finish watching the movie. We thought it was hilarious. Even though it was originally filmed in German, dubbed in English, and subtitled in Spanish, the plot was quite funny and the diaglouge was translated well. This is very much in the Mel Brooks zany style of comedy. If you can find it, it's definitely worth a watch. I'd also like to see more of Michael Bully Herbig's comedies. If they are as funny as this one, I'm sure I'll enjoy them also.

This movie is absolutely awful. I listened to the German edition and the English edition and I can't decide which is worse. The real problem with this movie and German comedy is that they treat it too serious. As I can understand German I find German comedians to be in general quite horrible when contrasted to American, or British humor.I guess what I dislike about this humor is that it is very cliché and predictable. For example the play on homosexuality is completely cliché and already done way too many times.In the end I could not watch either language of the movie to the end, and that is rare for me because I like watching movies.

I think this is one of the best german films ever, it´s full of good actors and for a comedian, the story is also very good. But the best thing surely are the jokes, for example the gay indian, the "Superperforator" song and the Schoschonen who hunt the heroes.But i understand why foreigners don´t enjoy this film. I think it isn´t funny for an american to see some unknown actors who talk about homosexuality and have a bad translated bavarian accent. So this film is only funny if you are german but then it is really funny because Michael "Bully" Herbig is such a funny guy, if you see him playing to important roles and beeing the director of this film, you´ll love him! But also Christian Tramitz (Ranger), Sky Dumont ("bad guy" Santa Maria) and Rick Kavanian (whose role as a greek wasn´t so funny in this film) are really good actors. And I also loved Santa Marias men, the bad cowboys.I´m sure that nearly every german has seen this film at least one time and if you speak german, you must have done this. But if you are french ore american, you don´t really need this film, I saw a part of the translated version, it was funny but not as good as the original film!

The production values are OK, the cinematography, SFx, costumes, set design etc. are remarkably good (for a comedy) and the acting is OK, but personally I would rather not dwell on the fact that this was the commercially most successful German movie ever. In fact, the good visuals expose the script as rather lame -- jokes that work well in the "trashier" environment of Michael Herbig's TV show ("Bully Parade") come across as a bit lackluster (viz, not all that funny) in this feature-length movie (most of the characters and jokes have essentially been copied-and-pasted from the TV show, in case you haven't had a chance to see it).So what about the tremendous box office success? I have a theory which sadly exposes the cinema audience as a rather unadventurous lot: the movie reaped its accolades not on account of the movie being so insanely great, but because it dependably serves the jokes from the TV show in a larger format; plus it has a low common denominator, meaning that you can take your mates, your girl friend or your nephews to see it, and at least none of them will be terribly disappointed. It's a bit like going to McDonalds, no-one would claim that the food is so exceptionally tasty there, but at least you know what you are going to get.Overall the movie is bearable time waster if you get to see it for free on TV, nothing more -- it's like watching a Bud Spencer movie, good for a few chuckles. Foreigners: for the love of God, please don't mistake this for the "crème de la crème" of German comedy!