Even if this is called "Otto - The New Movie", it is still not only a pretty old film, but actually the second out of five installments in the Otto movie series. It came out two years after the mega-successful film and is once again directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger and Waalkes himself. Aso the same team of writers is back again. It starts not too big with an ottifant (Waalkes' trademark) who vomits, but the quality gets better quickly. Otto falls in love with a woman, who unfortunately is only interested in the muscular movie hero Amboss (the Stallone/Schwarzenegger/Rambo/Terminator of the Otto universe). And if that was not enough struggles already for our hero, his landlord uses him as a slave because he cannot come up with the last rent payments.
The love story is okay, but kind of expected although at one point I thought, maybe the picky girl really wants him in the end, but he chooses the other. Well.. I was wrong, at least partially. I thought his true love looked a bit like Marion Cotillard here. The comedy worked nicely for most of the time. only a few jokes were a bit on the bad side. One of the funniest scene was when he enters a room with a crying baby, to shut it up, we hear fighting noises and Otto comes out beaten by the baby. Apart from that, there are as many word-plays as in the other Otto films, which will make this film difficult to understand/appreciate in a dubbed version I guess. There is also some politically incorrect humor included in here again. I also liked the music and how quickly Otto switches costumes. For a large part of the film, he acts as a doctor here, but in fact he just needs to take care of the real doctor's cat, which just won't die and strangely enough becomes mother of a couple "kittens" at the end. The dad is a dog.
As his land lord says: Otto can't do anything, doesn't know anything and won't do anything, but still wants more money. This description sure does not fit this sequel. It's a solid effort and those who enjoyed the first film, will also enjoy this one. Also Otto 2 was again a success at the box office, as it won the Golden Screen just like the first film. My personal favorite, however, is still the fifth and probably final installment.
The love story is okay, but kind of expected although at one point I thought, maybe the picky girl really wants him in the end, but he chooses the other. Well.. I was wrong, at least partially. I thought his true love looked a bit like Marion Cotillard here. The comedy worked nicely for most of the time. only a few jokes were a bit on the bad side. One of the funniest scene was when he enters a room with a crying baby, to shut it up, we hear fighting noises and Otto comes out beaten by the baby. Apart from that, there are as many word-plays as in the other Otto films, which will make this film difficult to understand/appreciate in a dubbed version I guess. There is also some politically incorrect humor included in here again. I also liked the music and how quickly Otto switches costumes. For a large part of the film, he acts as a doctor here, but in fact he just needs to take care of the real doctor's cat, which just won't die and strangely enough becomes mother of a couple "kittens" at the end. The dad is a dog.
As his land lord says: Otto can't do anything, doesn't know anything and won't do anything, but still wants more money. This description sure does not fit this sequel. It's a solid effort and those who enjoyed the first film, will also enjoy this one. Also Otto 2 was again a success at the box office, as it won the Golden Screen just like the first film. My personal favorite, however, is still the fifth and probably final installment.