![]() It helps that the editing is superb no joke is ever drawn out and the film moves frantically from one scene to the next. This is a very fast-paced, slapstick-style film which injects enough sarcasm and biting one-liners that the 'silly humour' aspect of the direction is easily overlooked. No one suddenly makes any huge leaps to become a better person and in fact, people don't do a complete 180 and suddenly change every aspect of their personalities which adds to the realism. It's a fairly predictable plot so I knew what to expect but I always like it when character development and changes in people are done subtly and believably. First, I'll discuss the story and how engaging it is: I really liked the leads and the supporting characters were interesting. This film has some of the most conflicting reviews I've ever read! Comedies will always polarise opinions but this one seems to have gone to the extreme, although in fairness, there are only around 11 reviews at the time of writing mine so perhaps if more people contributed their opinions, we would get a better indication of the overall success of the film. ![]() But if you like those type of movies, its worth a look. Its not a really great movie too, because the second half follows the formula totally and leads to the obvious happy end and has the "everybodys' got talent"-message mostly of the movies with troubled teenagers have. It is also nice, that while education is a big subject in Germany these years, producing heated political debates and book bestsellers, they do not take the schooling aspect too seriously and keep it easy. Elyas M'barek, Germanys upcoming young male movie star, does a nice and convincing job here, while I did not like him in his former roles. Especially the first half is original since they show Zeki as a kind of guy, who not only does not care for the pupils, but is not afraid to look bad as often in this kind of movies. I expected a run-off-the-mill rom com, but, well, it was little kind of better. He soon gets appointed to the worst class and gets along with a "Dont bother me at all"-attitude for what he clashes soon with Lisi, a young idealistic teacher and former class mate of his (ad sure, the potential love interest of the movie). While looking for the loot of his last robbery, he gets confused as replacement teacher - a great opportunity to take time and slowly dig out his treasure, who is hidden under the schools gym. Its the story of Zeki Müller, a convict who was just released of jail. When I watched it, I did not expect much, thought by the trailers it was stupid, but I have a knack for shitty teenager/school movies. In Germany this was the "hot" autumn movie that everybody liked, the critics as well as the audience.
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