Monkey King
Monkey King
| 13 October 2016 (USA)
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Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their everyday family problems too.

Reviews
Interesteg What makes it different from others?
GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Christoph Spielberger The film is a raw sequence of supposedly funny ideas, with a lot of "Hangover"- humour and many loose ends, not being told - four people were writing on the script. The editing creates a fragmented atmosphere, making it hard for the viewer to get into the film. The plot about a guy, who seeks sweet revenge on his three former best friends who let him down some decades ago, by inviting them to "his" house in Southern France, is inconsistent and ridiculous. The figures lack depth, they don't need it because the plot is sheer background for the recurring, personal issues of the director - glorification of drugs, orgies, anal intercourse, satanism. In his former movie "Schwarze Schafe" he took these ingredients to form a wonderful genre picture of Berlin. Now he is shagging his issues to death. Like in Sorrentino's "La Grande Bellezza", you get the impression, the film is about the director's crisis. The very good acting of the lead figures (Wagner, Finzi, Böwe, Hosemann) cannot save a bad plot and bad directing.