VividSimon Simply Perfect

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

uebermut-1 I've just seen this awful movie and I'd like to say it's such a waste of time. The story is so uninteresting that the good acting doesn't matter anyway. The whole movie you're waiting to see something surprisingly - no way! The worst thing: the fact that it's made out of stereotypes and clichés makes it even worse than TV-trash with just something like storyline or charming characters. Somehow it makes me angry having seen this, so this comment… such a dumb piece of film! For the fact this is a Bavarian film, the heavy dialect seems just to suggest, that you are watching an authentic movie. What a fake! The little boy is acting well, there are funny scenes in it, but the whole time there are elements that are feeling so fake, that you ask yourself what kind of intellectual twist they were having in mind. Even the good photography helps feeling more bored - has do be well made, but it's not. One of my bottom #5, definitely!! Even worse than… no idea.

Juja1 Full 10 points, would have loved to give 11. Not only the most enjoyable German movie of the year, but in general the most enjoyable movie I have seen in a long time. Contents: Take a child's fantasy, take Bavarian Catholicism, and watch a series of hilarious events unfold from this combination. If you are – such as me - German but not from Bavaria, be sure to take also a South German friend with you in order to translate the punch lines you have been missing due to dialect. If you come over this movie out of Germany, don't miss out on the fun – you're even luckier because you will most probably be watching a subtitled version. I am sure you don't have to be German in order to like this movie, because religion - and all those strange blossoms which it may spread - are truly international. Last but not least: If you're German and the rabbit from „Nach 5 im Urwald" made you laugh – here's more :-)

Carsten Vogel Almoust perfect. Marginal deficits in being too giggly.Great plot. Excellent actors. Typical Bavarian life, stunning nature scenes -- you'll wanna climb the Wendelstein! Most impressing to me is the stories hidden message: how do we deal with our questions, who is giving us answers and how do we deal with em. One the one hand we feel for the small boy constantly dropping a brick, one the other hand, we remember our life: sometimes we also do not know what to do, have no answers and do stupid things. What's life about? And death? How many (wrong) answers... how much misleading... how much stupidity ^^ Aren't we are like that small poor boy, searching for THE answer hitting the dirt all the time?

erle-3 I was a little wary of this movie, German comedy is often too shallow and unimaginative. But Rosenmüller went the other way instead, choosing to make a deliberately whacky and funnily dark movie about a kid seeking immortality to escape eternal punishment for his mother's death. That's a great concept, the movie plays it for what it's worth and the Bavarian setting in all it's strangeness helps a lot. For me, there is a problem, though: the leading role. Finding a 11-year old who can act is hard, I personally can think of only one or two movies with boys figuring prominently that they didn't sink. Girls seem to do a better job of it somehow. Anyway, Markus Krojer is no exception to the rule. His acting is wooden, he barely seems to be able to act his role rather than himself (or at least it seems like that. Never met him.) He's just a kid, so no blame there, but it hurts the movie.Fundamentally, Bavarian comedy is an exception from the "Germans have no sense of humor"-rule. At their best, they live up to the Brits. "Wer früher stirbt..." is proof of that once again.