Potato Salad (2015)
2/10
A film that never should have been made
1 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
"Kartoffelsalat" is a relatively new German movie that features some of Germany's most known Youtube personalities as actors. The film's writer director is Michael David Pate and it will be difficult for him to come up with a worse film at any point in his career. This is described as a comedy and horror movie here on IMDb. Is it scary? Absolutely not. Is it funny? Absolutely unfunny. Lead actor Torge Oelrich is a disaster from start to finish. This film has only been for the most despicable of reasons. There can never have been any intention of coming up with a quality movie, it was all about cashing in. Most of the people in here have hundreds of thousands or even millions of subscribers on the world's most famous video site. So maybe these would also pay to see these people in a theater? I am not sure how commercially successful this film turned out, but it truly is a disastrous watch. But I am not too disappointed in these Youtube stars. Most of them use their channels for stupid contents anyway and also promote products for which the companies pay them to say they really use them. So no surprise these scam artists came up with another failure here.

This film also is going nowhere. At times, it seemed like a 100% parody, at other times it took itself seriously. As this was only rarely the case, it would have been fine if the parody aspects managed decent humor, but they did not. None of the dialogs were smart or witty. "Breaking Bad" references on several occasions were completely embarrassing and the way they tried to channel Jella Haase in "Fack Ju Göhte" was the worst of the worst.

The ones who really disappoint me that they took part in this endeavor are the real actors, such as Norbert Heisterkamp, Katy Karrenbauer or Wolfgang Bahro. With Jenny Elvers and Tobias Schenke I am not surprised at all. These 2 never had any talent. But the biggest disappointment for me is Otto Waalkes, one of Germany's best comedians of all time and a true inspiration for young rising comedians. I have no idea what he was thinking to appear in this film and also work on it behind the camera. Why Otto why? These people are not worth your attention. Fitting that the production company is called "Take 25" as it could very well be true that it may have taken them 25 takes on several occasions to actually get a scene done due to the lack of talent from most cast members. And it still looks like crap. Terrible movie. One of the worst ever made? Probably not. But still really really bad. Highly not recommended.
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