Review of Lammbock

"Lammbock" is a German 90-minute movie from almost 15 years ago. The writer and director is Christian Zübert and he is still busy making film in 2015. I have seen some of his other works and must say that I preferred these over Lammbock, especially the recent "Hin und Weg". But back to this one here. You could probably call it a stoner comedy. It attempts to be more relevant and better in terms of quality than the likes of Axel Stein comedy that was famous back then, but it does not succeed. Lead actor Gregorowicz worked with Zübert on several projects and that is probably also why he got cast here. Marie Zielcke, who play the biggest female part, has not really managed to prove she has good range, but is not much more than a beautiful face. Even if she is not as bad as Neldel, she is fairly irrelevant today, just like Gregorowicz.

Bleibtreu, however, is still among Germany's biggest movie stars. Apart from him, you may recognize Wepper, Monot and Möhring in here if you have an interest in German cinema. Unfortunately, all these talented actors cannot really make the script work. The marijuana/police struggles are neither funny nor dramatic enough to make this one worth the watch. Same goes for all the relationship issues. The characters in here were as unlikable as uninteresting, pretty much all of them. Maybe some people perceive this film as hip or trendy, but it really does not offer a lot, neither in terms of writing nor in terms of acting. Thumbs down, one of Bleibtreu's weakest films. Good thing it does not run longer than 1.5 hours.