Horst_In_Translation Review of Sex Up Your Life!

Sex Up Your Life! (2005 TV Movie)

Sucks like the first, for different and similar reasons

[2/10 · 23 April 2017]

"Sex up your life!" (I won't mention the German title here because of all the correction spelling suggestions) is a German 90-minute movie from 2005 and this one came out two years after the first "Sex Up" film. The director and one of the writers is once again Florian Gärtner and this film here is still among his most known today, way over a decade later, and this probably says nothing positive about him as a filmmaker. The actors are also many familiar faces from the first film. And the story is also pretty similar, at least in the second half. But lets talk about that one later. The first half here is actually slightly superior to the first movie. This does not mean it was good though. The entire first film was complete garbage and the first half here is just uninteresting. So I was tempted to give this more than one star out of five. But then the second half happened and it is basically an equally weak copy of the entire first film. It is again very much in the center of it all about a sex plant that gets everybody horny and makes them want to have wild sex with the first person they see. That joke was way overdone in the original film again, but it says a lot about creativity or the lack thereof if you recycle this exact story again in another film. So yeah, of course there is romance included again too, but it's hopeless because you never feel about the characters. In addition, we get stupid Anton aus Tirol references (the song isn't even as bad as your film here guys), discrimination against beer without alcohol and pretty low pick-up lines by the oh so likable male protagonist that of course work on the oh so likable female protagonist. Really no words for the quality here. But what can you expect when Thorsten Feller plays the main antagonist? Not much for sure. Of course you can only blame him to an extent and same goes for several other actors, especially Hoecke, but you also need to keep in mind that they accepted this crappy script and did not say no knowing very well they cannot give good performances with what they are given here. So yeah, all in all, this film was a massive failure that honestly never should have been made after the abysmal quality of the first film. But I guess it was financially successful enough for a follow-up project. Shame on you guys. This duology is probably Matschenz' weakest. Stay far far away or watch it if you loved the first, but then I guess there is no help left for you.