I was 23 when this movie came out and it was an instant hit.
Everybody was laughing about the jokes and singing the songs long after.
Watching it again now, 33 years later, things have changed slightly.
It can and will still be considered an Austrian "cult movie".
But boy, is it actually BAD! Every single actor (even the known ones) seems like somebody they just got off the street and gave them a script to read. A lot of the voices are not the actor's ones and synchronization is abysmally bad. Just like any other aspect of it.
One thing that's still great is the music, if maybe only for sentimental reasons. But I found myself happily singing along after all that time.
It was cool seeing it again, but other than that I most certainly would not have sat through it.
Going by "value" to Austrian film-history and cult-factor, this would surely be a 10. Judging it just as a movie, a "1" would be generous. So 5 it is from me.
Everybody was laughing about the jokes and singing the songs long after.
Watching it again now, 33 years later, things have changed slightly.
It can and will still be considered an Austrian "cult movie".
But boy, is it actually BAD! Every single actor (even the known ones) seems like somebody they just got off the street and gave them a script to read. A lot of the voices are not the actor's ones and synchronization is abysmally bad. Just like any other aspect of it.
One thing that's still great is the music, if maybe only for sentimental reasons. But I found myself happily singing along after all that time.
It was cool seeing it again, but other than that I most certainly would not have sat through it.
Going by "value" to Austrian film-history and cult-factor, this would surely be a 10. Judging it just as a movie, a "1" would be generous. So 5 it is from me.