![]() ![]() MPAA Rating: TV-MA, drinking, drug contentĬast: Felicitas Woll, Janina Uhse, Matthias Klimsa, Jan SosniokĬredits: Directed by Franziska Meyer Price, script by David Safier. Unlike pretty much anything else in “Lolle on the Run.” Reaganesque.Īnd I grinned at the part of the Harz forest Lolle and Dana find themselves in - “Schnitznitz.” It may not be the best language for comedy, but German place names? Real beer-through-the-nose geography.įunny. “Tear down this WALL! Tear down this WALL,” they chant, in German with English subtitles. The one scene that made me laugh involved the ladies’ pursuers colliding and collectively pounding on a gate, trying to get at them. The running gag - that everywhere they go, they run into some OTHER ex of Lolle’s - also needed work. The animation is clever, if not hilarious. There’s a bear who eats a phone, and every so often Lolle imagines a person she encounters in animated form. The “cute touches” here are whimsical uses of split-screen action, as the meth lab mugs, the cult, the cops and Lolle’s two exes chase her and track her with the help of her blackmailing IT guy in India. Lolle spends her time begging, questioning and trying to understand this hellish creature whom most of us would have cold-cocked the moment she literally spat in our face. Think “Something Wild” without the charm. They have to escape, stumble into a meth lab, have their clothes swiped by a cult of forest hippies, get back to Berlin, get Lolle’s notebook and maybe settle some of mean girl Dana’s “issues” as they do.ĭana’s like a dark, angry German version of that “too-much-fun/free-spirit” that comedies like this throw at us. ![]() Tracked to a bar, Dana then drugs Lolle, steals a car and gets them both arrested in the middle of nowhere. Lolle’s “community service” is at a school, where this beautiful bullying custodian ( Janina Uhse) proceeds to make her life hell - making her clean toilets, stealing her notebook P, with her animation studio’s pitch for being sold on it. In other words, the first five minutes of the movie is cluttered with a bunch of junk we don’t need to know. She’s put career first, jumped from comic books to animation, has “babies” on the brain, and here we are. Lolle narrates big chunks of her youth, with flashbacks unnecessarily bringing us up to date on how she got to the altar. Lolle flees, causes many traffic mishaps, and thus she’s in front of a judge in handcuffs. She fled because her ex, beach bum bartender Sven ( Jan Sosniok) motorcycled up, confessed his love, and gave away the game by confessing that they’d had sex shortly before this wedding. Heres a German comedy stuffed with cutesy touches but little else, a madcap scamper from start to finish that still feels static and kind of staid, and a gorgeous character whos meant to be funny, but who makes you wish our heroine would break a damn bottle over her head. She just fled the altar where she was about to marry Hart ( Matthias Klimsa), her lifelong friend and business partner in the animation studio they run, which they’re about to sell to Hollywood. That’s “Berlin, Berlin: Lolle on the Run” in a nutshell - emphasis on the “shell.” It’s a madly misshapen farce that never amounts to much more than pleasant nonsense, and damned little of that.Ĭonsider: We meet Lolle ( Felicitas Woll) in court in her battered wedding dress. The performers just have to roll with the audience's ideas, and they sure can think on their feet and are hysterical! It is family-friendly there was no cussing, and the host told the audience up front that suggestions need to be "above the belt" and clean because they like to keep their show fun and friendly for all ages.Here’s a German comedy stuffed with cutesy touches but little else, a madcap scamper from start to finish that still feels static and kind of staid, and a gorgeous character who’s meant to be funny, but who makes you wish our heroine would break a damn bottle over her head. The performers are funny, friendly, encouraging-they ask for suggestions throughout the show. I thought my youngest would be too shy, but he blurted out ideas along with the rest of us. It was HILARIOUS! There wasn't a very big crowd, but everyone who attended participated. My husband and I took our boys, 12 and 17, to this improv comedy show on a Thursday evening.
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