The movie is about two Mid-Twenty-Guys hanging around in Dortmund. Hoffi is good-looking, easy-going, but not very clever; his best friend Lehmi is more clever, but also more serious and bit pessimistic/aggressive. This movie follows them around a day where they practically do not do much more than walk trough the city in search mostly for beer, but also a gift for Hoffis sisters birthday. On the way they more or less stumble over their dream girls and end up with them on a punk concert. I think this movie is about the unrevealed dream of many Germans, which was subject of more famous works like the fairy-tale "Hans im Glück" or the novel "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts": not being serious, living in the day AND be happy (which is not possible for many of us). What I like most, were the dialogues, which point out very good the Ruhrpott dialect with its many funny expressions. Also the characters are very sympathetic. For such a small movie, it has an excellent cast (the main protagonists are great, but their also interesting appearances like that of the excellent stage actor Edgar Selge). Two points I did not like: - the movie is a bit too positive about drinking. The protagonists drink all day; but people with this habit I know usually appear to me as losers and not guys who appeal to attractive girls. - some things of the plot were just too obvious, like in a Rom-Com. This goes for the love-story, but also for the struggle scene, which seemingly has to be in every "buddy" movie. I would have liked if they at least have canceled the latter; there are friendships which can be exciting without struggle.
Review of DoppelPack
