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. In order to get regular access to the school’s basement, from where he hopes to drill a tunnel to his spoils, Zeki takes on a job as a substitute teacher offered to him by the prim principal (Katja Riemann, in a delicious cameo), who just lost a teacher because she’d been so maltreated by her students, she jumped from a second-floor window, shouting “They’re all monsters!” Nevermind that Zeki has no teaching certificate or any accurate knowledge of German.Pretty bad B movie overall, but did have some funny scenes. Zeki Mueller was in jail for 13 months, just enough time for Goethe High to construct a new gym on the exact spot where Zeki’s stripper friend, Charlie, buried his loot.
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