1 is: The German film industry runs on public funding and collaborations with public broadcasting stations, and the decisions there are made by politically affiliated men (and very few women) in their 60s. And if you've seen a domestic German film in cinemas, you may have wondered: 'Geez, why are German actors so unfunny and stiff?' The answer to question No. If you've seen almost any German film in the past five years during a film festival that wasn't genre specific, you may have asked yourself: 'Geez, are Germans really THAT boring?' Well, be my guest if you did. But if you like those type of movies, its worth a look. Its not a really great movie too, because the second half follows the formula totally and leads to the obvious happy end and has the "everybodys' got talent"-message mostly of the movies with troubled teenagers have. It is also nice, that while education is a big subject in Germany these years, producing heated political debates and book bestsellers, they do not take the schooling aspect too seriously and keep it easy. Elyas M'barek, Germanys upcoming young male movie star, does a nice and convincing job here, while I did not like him in his former roles. Especially the first half is original since they show Zeki as a kind of guy, who not only does not care for the pupils, but is not afraid to look bad as often in this kind of movies. I expected a run-off-the-mill rom com, but, well, it was little kind of better. He soon gets appointed to the worst class and gets along with a "Dont bother me at all"-attitude for what he clashes soon with Lisi, a young idealistic teacher and former class mate of his (ad sure, the potential love interest of the movie). While looking for the loot of his last robbery, he gets confused as replacement teacher - a great opportunity to take time and slowly dig out his treasure, who is hidden under the schools gym. Its the story of Zeki Müller, a convict who was just released of jail. When I watched it, I did not expect much, thought by the trailers it was stupid, but I have a knack for shitty teenager/school movies. In Germany this was the "hot" autumn movie that everybody liked, the critics as well as the audience. Just 2000's lame teen music playing over many scenes which again shows how cheap and predictable the movie is. You could take the idea and make it work, but it just doesn't here. Maybe if you are a teen and see these scenes and plot points for the first time you won't feel it's as predictable and lame. So you can take the 10 funny scenes and laugh at them while the movie overall is a miss and not worth watching unless you have a huge cringe tolerance. And you know EXACTLY how this stuff goes as 90% of the plot is just stolen directly from those old B-tier Hollywood movies. Instead we focus on the "influence rebel kids" scenes. Just like we never see much tricking in relation to getting to the buried heist. The tunnel stuff is actually a super cool idea. It's all played up for gags as we see scene after scene with loose plot connections and these characters acting over the top stupid. The lead is trying to get a job at the school to dig up a heist buried under a school building, as we see in the very start, yet he is never clever or secretive about anything. And many other characters act the same way. We see him piss, puke, eat like a pig, constant nose-picking, belching, weird nasty gags. The other main issue, besides it being overly cringe, is that the lead is a disgusting gangster. The movie itself is a cheap movie with flat camera work. So the romance is extremely cringe, just unwatchable. We just see characters act silly and never change unless they have to according to the plot. There is no charm or slow development of anything. When someone falls in love for example we see them overact extreme interest in every single scene. Maybe one every 15 scenes is good the rest fall completely flat with bad acting, terrible cringe comedy and cheap cinematography. Yeah, some of these gag scenes are funny in the first 30 minutes of the movie before it drops off a cliff and becomes terrible. It's the kind of flat characters you'd recognize from over the top 80's and 90's teen comedies so unless you think those "nerd teens go to cool party" movies were amazing comedies this may not be for you. So the handsome disgusting gangster, the cute kind teacher, the rebel kids, the sex fixated female roommate/teacher, the gullible principal. It's basically a collection of ridiculous scenes with flat characters. Pretty bad B movie overall, but did have some funny scenes.
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