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.
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.