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Monkey King
Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their everyday family problems too.
| Release : | 2016 |
| Rating : | 4.7 |
| Studio : | ARTE, Oliwood Productions, SR, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
| Cast : | Hans-Jochen Wagner Samuel Finzi Oliver Korittke Marc Hosemann Jule Böwe |
| Genre : | Comedy |
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Strong and Moving!
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Don't listen to the negative reviews
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
The film is a raw sequence of supposedly funny ideas, with a lot of "Hangover"- humour and many loose ends, not being told - four people were writing on the script. The editing creates a fragmented atmosphere, making it hard for the viewer to get into the film. The plot about a guy, who seeks sweet revenge on his three former best friends who let him down some decades ago, by inviting them to "his" house in Southern France, is inconsistent and ridiculous. The figures lack depth, they don't need it because the plot is sheer background for the recurring, personal issues of the director - glorification of drugs, orgies, anal intercourse, satanism. In his former movie "Schwarze Schafe" he took these ingredients to form a wonderful genre picture of Berlin. Now he is shagging his issues to death. Like in Sorrentino's "La Grande Bellezza", you get the impression, the film is about the director's crisis. The very good acting of the lead figures (Wagner, Finzi, Böwe, Hosemann) cannot save a bad plot and bad directing.
