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Just perfect...

Great Film overall

Good movie but grossly overrated

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is THE animated German movie. You speak German??, go and see.This humor is pretty flat. Full of fecal humor and hilarious bullshit. The animations are funny as s***. I simply love it, as any German probably does :)But yes.... the realistic scenes in between are pretty lame. Some are funny, but .... well... most of them suck. Sad but true. What makes it even worse. The main character in the realistic parts is the animator of the main character in the animated parts. He is one bad actor. Horrible.Anyways.... the animations are a total payoff. :) go and see

The first „Werner"-comics had a phenomenonal success, when first published in 1981: the drawings where simple, yet very articulate, the text written colloquially, kept in so-called "Plattdeutsch" (a dialect spoken on the northern shores of Germany) and the adventures of main-character "Werner" centred around riding bikes, fixing bikes, hanging out with his rocker pals and drinking Beer. "Werner" was rough, "Werner" was rude and most importantly, "Werner" was as authentic as it gets. "Werners" creator, Brösel (translated as "bread-crumb"), being a biker himself, takes his stories from real life, adoption his own youth-experiences and his clique of friends into comic-form.Expectations where high when the film "Werner", at the height of the Werner-boom, hit cinemas in 1990 and lining up before the cinemas often turned into a party, fans congregating with bottles of "Bölkstoff" (Beer), loudly repeating catchphrases like, "Sag mal jemand Bescheid". Alas, their enthusiasm usually went down a notch, after the animated intro faded to real-live.So, what was Brösel thinking? We don't know, but my two theories are, that a) he tried to emulate "Who framed Roger Rabbit" and b) he thought it would be good fun, him and his pals appearing as themselves in a movie.The live action sequences are rather forgettable – Brösel obviously has no talent to act, the jokes really aren't funny and if one can give them one merit, it's that we get to see the real-life inspirations for many of the "Werner" characters, all played and based on Brösel's friends.The animation is somewhere between the works of Ralph Bakshi and Belgium shock-cartoonist Pischa; simple, rudimentary yet keeping in suit with the comics. Brösel has taken some of the most popular stories (Werner in hospital, as apprentice or Werner's football game) and fuses them the real live scenes.A highlight was casting Klaus Büchner, iconic singer of cult Rock band "Torfrock", as the voice of "Werner"; many readers had envisioned his unforgettable timbre as the voice of "Werner", long before there was even talk about a film. "Torfrock", having reunited for this project, also supplied the excellent soundtrack (if you're into Biker Rock, that is), containing a number of songs that would later become hits in Germany.A word of warning to non-German speakers (or even German speakers, who're not familiar with the northern dialect): it is virtually impossible to translate most of the slang or catchphrases, and if it were possible, well, they wouldn't be funny anymore. Or how would you translate "Beinhart"? "Leg-hard", which could be applied to bikers, choppers, bier or the general situation.Being a "Werner" fan, giving points isn't easy, but I can only give it a meagre 6 out of 10, mainly due to the live-action segments.

I saw this at the cinema in Germany, when I was a student there, then spent several years trying to find it on video. I love it.***MINOR SPOILERS***It is 2 stories in 1.First the animation. Werner is a North German plumber whose only real interests are motorcycles and beer. He hates the police, authority and TUV (vehicle testing department). Here we get to see Werner: commentating on a football match in a marketplace, where the shoppers are the players (only they don't know it!), being bed-bathed by fat nurses and also Werner's boss flushing his own head down a blocked toilet!!! 9/10Then the live action. Total and utter waste of time, fast forward through it, fetch a drink, do not even bother opening your eyes for it. 0/10 (it really is that bad and unfunny)Even if you skip through the live action, there is still over an hour of animation.A word of caution, the accent is very strong (from Kiel in the North, near to Denmark) I have a degree in German, and there are a few lines that have defied my best efforts for years!!There are now 4 sequels (which are all animation)

I´m half Dane and half German so i know the language so because of that I understand the movie and I think its great! the animation is crappy but the humor is good. I agree that the scenes that are not animation is boring so i usualy jump over those scenes!