Affenkönig (2016) User Reviews

It's a party

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 16 October 2020]

And not just because this is completely free of the usual suspects (Schweiger and his people), but because a couple of friends meet to reminisce old times. Back in the day when everything was better ... or was it? You can't argue with what one of them has going for it. Unless you believe in monogamy and marriage I reckon ... all kidding aside, the characters clashing may be cliche to some degree, but played quite well.

Still the movie has flaws (with tone and pacing at times for example), but it offers some interesting ideas. And nudity too - some of it may be to your liking, some of it probably not (it's a taste thing isn't it?). German comedies can be hit and miss, I would rate this more of a hit then the other way around. But it's not for the masses that's for sure

a Swiss stinker: regression into adolescence

[christophspielberger · 2/10 · 19 November 2017]

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.

Sweet

[anxiousgayhorseonketamine · 8/10 · 3 October 2021]

There is a coarseness here that you would probably not find in American British or French films; an earthiness which makes me sit up

I have found this in some German movies

This is truly a comedy; saw it on Arte and it said shocking scenes etc etc but really in 2021 if you have not been in an out-of-the-way nunnery for the last 40 years i would guess few will be shocked

"Family values" said Lou Reed "all in favour of those; but depends whose family"

I found it a sweet buddy movie with a twist a couple of naked scenes or three so what and the beautiful setting of Provence

German comedies can be REALLY funny; this one here is just funny and yes sweet; you feel the Love between the characters.