What a hideous display of conceit on the part of T.S.!!! Really, as far as entertainment goes, the movie is not quite as bad as my rating suggests. TS's character however is so outrageous that I was constantly tempted to turn my TV off. I only kept watching because I didn't want to write a review about a movie that I did not finish. TS must have had a very long midlife-crisis fit while writing the script. The story completely misses plausibility while containing a lot of show time for TS a.k.a. Ludo "I-have-a-stupid-first-name" Dekker: Ludo not only is good looking, he also must be earning a considerable wage, knows perfectly well how to deal with children and gets the last word in every argument. His only apparent fault is a lack of ability to feel true love. Luckily, in the end, he even proves that he actually is able to love a girl and thus exchanges his label "great guy" for "Superman". Along the way, the spectator's opinion about Ludo's personality worsens from scene to scene. He is not capable of doing one single nice thing. Hence, the spectator wonders why a beautiful woman who is obviously hiding her beauty behind a pair of atrocious glasses falls for a guy like that. On top of his know-it-all manner he used to bully that same girl big time all the way through grade school. On what basis could she possibly fall in love with him? While he never says a word of apology to her, she actually apologizes to him for treating him badly during their mutual work in the play-school. The only thing Ludo really has to offer is his look. Admittedly TS is quite good looking, especially for his age, even though I strongly suspect that he has been to a few plastic surgeons during his time in the US. I do also suspect that Jürgen Vogel's opinion about plastic surgery announced in the beginning of the movie is actually an exaggerated presentation of TS's own belief. Anyway, MY belief is that TS made a movie about his very own life. He surrounds himself – in films as well as real life - with women who are way too young for him (his current girlfriend is 25 years younger than him) and tries to defend that behaviour with a movie like this one. Pathetic!!!
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