If you have seen any of Otto's previous movies, you will basically know what kind of humor and approach to comedy is awaiting you here. It is obviously a very loose adaptation of the "Snow White" tale and runs for pretty much exactly 90 minutes. Otto got several famous comedians to play his fellow dwarfs, but what is almost even more impressive is the number of cameos in this film. Almost every male German comedian who was sort-of popular 10 years ago is in this movie. The film's director is Sven Unterwaldt Jr. who has worked on several comedy shows for television before. He also wrote the movie and got help from Waalkes and a couple more guys including even one who already worked with Otto on his movies 20 years earlier.
Pay attention how this film starts actually with "Red Riding Hood" and also ends with her. They included a couple more fairytale references here, like Martin Schneider's Cinderella love story. This was the third-most successful movie in Germany in 2004 after Bully Herbig's newest project and Harry Potter. So no surprise, two years later they already made a sequel and a third (this time animated) movie came out actually not too long ago. This first film here has early on quite some similarities to Otto's old movies. He plays his own parents in a flashback and also himself when he was a baby. But that's fine, I guess, as most younger audiences weren't probably too familiar with his first films. I liked the dwarf song main theme quite a bit. Rock singer Nina Hagen plays the evil queen. Visually, she fits the role 100%, but sadly she is not a great actress. Her daughter plays Snow White. Heinz Hoenig and Boris Aljinovic are two people in the cast who are more known as actors than as comedians, so no surprise they play the more serious, occasionally grumpy, characters.
Not all the jokes are 100% in this movie and some are even quite off the mark and the ending on how the queen was defeated I found slightly disappointing, but here and there it's a really funny movie (my favorite part Jäger vs Neger). Basically, it is what you could expect: nothing groundbreaking, but 90 minutes decent entertainment. Recommended.
Pay attention how this film starts actually with "Red Riding Hood" and also ends with her. They included a couple more fairytale references here, like Martin Schneider's Cinderella love story. This was the third-most successful movie in Germany in 2004 after Bully Herbig's newest project and Harry Potter. So no surprise, two years later they already made a sequel and a third (this time animated) movie came out actually not too long ago. This first film here has early on quite some similarities to Otto's old movies. He plays his own parents in a flashback and also himself when he was a baby. But that's fine, I guess, as most younger audiences weren't probably too familiar with his first films. I liked the dwarf song main theme quite a bit. Rock singer Nina Hagen plays the evil queen. Visually, she fits the role 100%, but sadly she is not a great actress. Her daughter plays Snow White. Heinz Hoenig and Boris Aljinovic are two people in the cast who are more known as actors than as comedians, so no surprise they play the more serious, occasionally grumpy, characters.
Not all the jokes are 100% in this movie and some are even quite off the mark and the ending on how the queen was defeated I found slightly disappointing, but here and there it's a really funny movie (my favorite part Jäger vs Neger). Basically, it is what you could expect: nothing groundbreaking, but 90 minutes decent entertainment. Recommended.