In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

In general, I don't think too highly of Til Schweiger as an actor and after watching Keinohrhasen, I'd even say that he's certainly a better writer and possibly director as well. That doesn't mean, however, that his acting in "Keinohrhasen" was bad. Ludo is the perfect role for him playing a bon vivant photographer who, as often and intensely as he can, enjoys the pleasures of life: cars, wine and women of course. Until a mishap (crashing boxer Klitschko's marriage proposal) at his job results in him being sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Consequently, he meets kindergarten worker Anna (Nora Tschirner), a woman who he used to bully back when they were children and she certainly enjoys her revenge right now. Of course, not much surprisingly, the relation between the two quickly changes in the completely opposite direction.I think this is a great film to watch with your significant other, or on a all-girls movie night. It's probably generally more suited for female audiences (as mostly with the genre), but any man who refuses to watch it because of that, is clearly missing out as it offers the audience some nice lessons on relationships, love, sex and life of course. Literally every scene has some kind of funny momentum and it's really an excellent screenplay that Schweiger and Anika Decker came up with. It oozes charm and humor and even at not much under 2 hours, which is always a bit critical for comedies, the film never starts to drag. Tschirner creates a truly memorable character and delivers a convincing display of all different kinds of emotions: anger, vindictiveness, joy, love, despair... and if it did not happen already earlier, it was this film that catapulted her into the Champions League of German actresses. In addition to her great performance, Schweiger really used his connections to get almost everybody with a big name in German cinema to have at least a 5-second cameo. Slightly bigger parts are played by Jürgen Vogel (as himself), Armin Rohde and Rick Kavanian, who are all three nothing short of fantastic with the characters they're given and bring some much-appreciated comedic delight.If you enjoyed this film, there's also a sequel featuring most of the main characters from the first you could take a look at and right now there's an animated spin off coming out featuring the rabbit without ears and chicken with two ears, the two characters that gave the films their names. This one is certainly more suitable to children than the two live action films, but with Schweiger and his daughter doing the voice acting certainly not exclusively. In any case, I recommend "Keinohrhasen" a lot. It gave me a pretty good time watching for sure.

When a director stars in his own movie, it can sometimes be a recipe for disaster. They just give all the screen time to themselves and it becomes a self indulgent mess like in case of "Dances with Wolves". If done correctly they are able to use the actor within themselves to their full potential as they know their own limits.This is the latter case. Til Schweiger again plays a cynical guy who seems to immune to love or affection. He has given a wonderful performance and done an admirable job in directing as well. He reprises the character he plays in Barfuss, which also has a very similar feel to this film. I saw him in this movie first so I like it much more. Of course Barfuss is almost as good, and I recommend it if you have liked this movie.Also the scenes with Jürgen Vogel were hilarious.

I am a guy, and I really like action flicks. My wife prefers comedies. My sister-in-law bought this movie for us when she came to visit. I have seen most of Till's movies, and I like him so that helped. I really enjoyed the movie despite knowing the outcome before I saw it. It was really funny most of the time. Here is what I would use this film for if I had the chance. Let's say that a new action flick or war movie is out and the wife would rather eat fried worms. Suggest that you watch this heart-warming romantic comedy after the cool movie. It is funny enough that you won't suffer. Besides, it's a German movie there is always a little T and A! Oh, and by the way Jan-Josef Liefers had a cameo in this film, just a heads up to the database keepers...

I have known Til Schweiger for a number of years, ever since his great success in "Der bewegte Mann". Nora Tschirner, on the other hand, is a new face. All during the movie, I tried to remember from where I knew her... but it did not recur to me until I looked her up in IMDb. And of course: she was the holographic companion to the Astronaut Iyon Tichy of the mini-series based on Stanislaw Lem! Quite a pretty robot in that one. In Keinohrhasen, she has few possibilities to show her beauty, with those huge, ugly glasses.If there is one improbable thing in this movie, it's that Til and Nora play classmates. I mean, Til is my age (b. 1963), Nora could be his daughter (b. 1981)! And another surprise I found out only when researching, is that the four handsome children with talking parts in the movie are all Til Schweiger's own breed.One last comment: do not take your parents to this movie. They might be embarrassed by the vocab.