"Vier Drillinge sind einer zu viel", which means "Four triplets are one too many", is a German television film from 2014, so this one is somewhere between five and ten years now in terms of age, but I assume unless you saw it today as well, it's gonna take a little longer until you get here and check out this review of mine. It is of course another ARD production, which means it runs for slightly under 1.5 hours. This is the sequel to a movie from 2012, so a gap of two years and this probably means that there will be no third film. At least, that's also what one should hope. I watched the first film too not super long ago and after seeing how bad that one already is, I must say that I have zero respect for people who were a part of the first film and now returned for this one here and it doesn't matter if we are talking in front of the camera or behind it. The only one who deserves some respct there at all is the director of the first film, even if I kinda feel that his absence here has more to do with him maybe being busy with other equally bad projects than this really being a creative decision as it should be. Everybody else shamelessly cashed in on the GEZ money here. This includes the new director Matthias Kiefersauer and if you take a look at everything else he did (Franzi, SOKO München, Inga Lindström), then you know exactly what quality to expect here. Or absence thereof. The writer is Martin Douven and same applies to him. Unter Uns, Frühling and the film before that one here also represent an utter absence of creativie talent. This film was basically doomed before shooting even started.
The cast does not really make things any better. The protagonists and also the supporting players are basically all people who have been on many, many equally terrible films like this one, so their inclusion in the cast is almost a guarantee for a film to turn out poorly. This especially includes Thekla Carola Wied. She is probably the worst from them all and it is unreal how much of a career, even with main characters, she has managed over the years, over the decades really. Despite her utter absence of talent. She is perhaps together with Gaby Dohm the very worst from her age group or behind Jutta Speidel if you can count her there. I think she is still a little younger. Anyway, good for Dohm I suppose. The ones who should be blamed are really those who keep casting her and also those in the audience that think this actress (struggle with calling her that because she plays the same character in every film) has only one drop of talent in her bloodstream. She is always unwatchable. Her man here is played by Günther Maria Halmer and I must say with him I am also kinda losing all respect now with how many of these films he has been in. Truly disgraceful, especially if you look at these two very famous international production in which he appeared early in his career. This mad had prospect and he is not untalented, but now at a relatively old age (or also when he was younger already) he picked all these unwatchable Degeto films to appear in and I think very recently he was in a Rosamunde Pilcher film for the first time. He is also cashing in where the GEZ money lies. Boo! Julia Brendler is the epitome of easy on the eye and exactly my type, but that will not hide the fact that she as well is not a good actress at alland has been in so many horrible small screen productions. Another thumbs-down. Jens Atzorn I kinda doubt he would be having a career without his father. In this film we have here, he is just there basically not doing anything at all. Kathrin von Steinburg I remembered immediately from Shoppen, a film I like quite a lot, so she has great recognition value, but as for her range I cannot say too much. Her role selection is also nothing to be proud of, even if she has been part of okay projects. And finally Martin Feifel, hmm cannot say too much about him. He wears make-up right? And not for the first time. It looks strange. In terms of his acting, I am far from won over here and in other films the same is the case.
There are so many terrible scenes and moments in this movie that it is impossible to fit them all in before the character limit. But I give it a try. First of all, the premise is already pretty strange with these two elderly people being a couple and their children, but this mess got caused in the first film, so we won't go into detail about that. There are enough examples here anyway. Wied graces us with some really terrible acting moment like when she makes an offer to her daughter before she has to make a presentation. Or when she basically orders her man to go on vacation with her spontaneously. He is not allowed to refuse. Wied is even getting the easiest lines all wrong with her overacting and exaggeratedly bright grin that we see constantly. Plain horrible. This film is as anti-male as the others. Male characters basically only exist to treat their women like princesses and still take a lot of complaining from them. Happily. The younger female protagonist's comments about jealousy are the best example. With how she says that her man looked at another woman's buttocks, with how she is angry when we find out the man fathered another child before he got together with her. Or very early on already, the argument they have after being in bed together. This scene there in the very first minute was already the epitome of cringe, how they were relaxing and lying to the old people that it was business-related that they needed to take care of the triplets and then there is this bizarre Vorspiel/foreplay slip of the tongue. I don't even. This film was so embarrassing in its attempts to be funny. Take the quote by von Steinburg's character about finding a man who is a good kisser. One of the cringiest moments of the entire film and that means quite something. Or how of course she had her purse stolen that included the phone number of the father's child. Very inconvenient crime for more storytelling nonsense. What a joke.
I could probably make an entire review of 10k characters only on all that is wrong with Wied and her character here. She is the only one from the bunch who truly manages the almost impossible to make the script feel worse than it already is. Take the scene in which she invites herself into Feifel's character's car for a glass of champagne and no matter how rich he may be and how he could have everybody as an artist for his project, he wants Wied's oh so talented character. Of course, she initially refuses. But then accepts the challenge anyway because she thinks women should have careers too. The scene with how she takes the little booklet out of the garbage is especially unwatchable. Or how she is of course so bbeloved by everybody and gives a hug to another character, much younger, who has been a friend for years. There are many other examples. Halmer does not have as many luckily and most of the time they are only because of the writing, like when he closes the blinds with everybody arriving to hide the other woman. His worst moment was maybe how he says that the truth must out and while everybody is shocked, of course, Wied's character saw it happening basically. The idea with the birthmark was also really for the sake of it and also how Halmer's character was about to show his, but then realizes it wouldn't be appropriate was another failed attempt at comedy. As for the mother of the fourth child, her name is included in this film and it is ridiculous to believe that Atzorn's character, when reading this name on one occasion, does not know exactly what is going on here. I mean the name was not Müller or anything. Oh yeah, then there is also the idea of this contest. This already gets unwatchable when we see Brendler's character's presentation where she elaborates on how the old idea is sexist and uninspired (this anti-male film having the guts to call anybody sexist - unreal) and her presentation was so awesome of course that she gets asked by the man previously in charge immediately afterwards about her background. Of course, she initially suspects he is hitting on her because hey that's what all men do when they express interest in a woman. Even if it is just in a professional way.
How they go on with this contest is equally ridiculous. Like how hundreds of thousands people apply to be the girl next door. Yeah, right. And Brendler's character's comments during the interview were also really cringeworthy. How she says she is not surprised by the reaction. She knows how great she is. I mean her mother worked professionally with Helmut Kohl and Richard Gere it was I think. The arrogance they have here. Unreal. Back to the daughter: When asked, how she came up with the idea, we get another stupid response linked to long legs. Just a jokes as she lets us know. And was is the actual response? "Just like that." Ah yes, very insightful. Then, how we get the countdown as if we should care who gets picked and Feifel's character lackluster reaction there how nobody flashes him was just unwatchable too before he finds the one. And who is it? Of course, the mother of the other baby. Sure thing. With hundreds of thousands competitors. Good God! This film as a whole is such an atrocity. More moments that serve as evidence? The internet sllang talk between the two older characters. The cell phone tracking explanation. Is that even legal? All the fake conflicts that are magically solved at the end. The plane tickets there. Feifel's character playing with the kids at the same time. Oh and of course, we get a rushed-in marriage proposal too here in the first half of the movie. Sure thing. And pay attention to how much Wied enjoys saying the word "Schlampen" for some band or so. Again, unwatchable and terrible acting from her. This is pretty much enough now. You get the message. This film here never should have been made and actually same is true for the previous one. Major thumbs-down. 100% skip.
The cast does not really make things any better. The protagonists and also the supporting players are basically all people who have been on many, many equally terrible films like this one, so their inclusion in the cast is almost a guarantee for a film to turn out poorly. This especially includes Thekla Carola Wied. She is probably the worst from them all and it is unreal how much of a career, even with main characters, she has managed over the years, over the decades really. Despite her utter absence of talent. She is perhaps together with Gaby Dohm the very worst from her age group or behind Jutta Speidel if you can count her there. I think she is still a little younger. Anyway, good for Dohm I suppose. The ones who should be blamed are really those who keep casting her and also those in the audience that think this actress (struggle with calling her that because she plays the same character in every film) has only one drop of talent in her bloodstream. She is always unwatchable. Her man here is played by Günther Maria Halmer and I must say with him I am also kinda losing all respect now with how many of these films he has been in. Truly disgraceful, especially if you look at these two very famous international production in which he appeared early in his career. This mad had prospect and he is not untalented, but now at a relatively old age (or also when he was younger already) he picked all these unwatchable Degeto films to appear in and I think very recently he was in a Rosamunde Pilcher film for the first time. He is also cashing in where the GEZ money lies. Boo! Julia Brendler is the epitome of easy on the eye and exactly my type, but that will not hide the fact that she as well is not a good actress at alland has been in so many horrible small screen productions. Another thumbs-down. Jens Atzorn I kinda doubt he would be having a career without his father. In this film we have here, he is just there basically not doing anything at all. Kathrin von Steinburg I remembered immediately from Shoppen, a film I like quite a lot, so she has great recognition value, but as for her range I cannot say too much. Her role selection is also nothing to be proud of, even if she has been part of okay projects. And finally Martin Feifel, hmm cannot say too much about him. He wears make-up right? And not for the first time. It looks strange. In terms of his acting, I am far from won over here and in other films the same is the case.
There are so many terrible scenes and moments in this movie that it is impossible to fit them all in before the character limit. But I give it a try. First of all, the premise is already pretty strange with these two elderly people being a couple and their children, but this mess got caused in the first film, so we won't go into detail about that. There are enough examples here anyway. Wied graces us with some really terrible acting moment like when she makes an offer to her daughter before she has to make a presentation. Or when she basically orders her man to go on vacation with her spontaneously. He is not allowed to refuse. Wied is even getting the easiest lines all wrong with her overacting and exaggeratedly bright grin that we see constantly. Plain horrible. This film is as anti-male as the others. Male characters basically only exist to treat their women like princesses and still take a lot of complaining from them. Happily. The younger female protagonist's comments about jealousy are the best example. With how she says that her man looked at another woman's buttocks, with how she is angry when we find out the man fathered another child before he got together with her. Or very early on already, the argument they have after being in bed together. This scene there in the very first minute was already the epitome of cringe, how they were relaxing and lying to the old people that it was business-related that they needed to take care of the triplets and then there is this bizarre Vorspiel/foreplay slip of the tongue. I don't even. This film was so embarrassing in its attempts to be funny. Take the quote by von Steinburg's character about finding a man who is a good kisser. One of the cringiest moments of the entire film and that means quite something. Or how of course she had her purse stolen that included the phone number of the father's child. Very inconvenient crime for more storytelling nonsense. What a joke.
I could probably make an entire review of 10k characters only on all that is wrong with Wied and her character here. She is the only one from the bunch who truly manages the almost impossible to make the script feel worse than it already is. Take the scene in which she invites herself into Feifel's character's car for a glass of champagne and no matter how rich he may be and how he could have everybody as an artist for his project, he wants Wied's oh so talented character. Of course, she initially refuses. But then accepts the challenge anyway because she thinks women should have careers too. The scene with how she takes the little booklet out of the garbage is especially unwatchable. Or how she is of course so bbeloved by everybody and gives a hug to another character, much younger, who has been a friend for years. There are many other examples. Halmer does not have as many luckily and most of the time they are only because of the writing, like when he closes the blinds with everybody arriving to hide the other woman. His worst moment was maybe how he says that the truth must out and while everybody is shocked, of course, Wied's character saw it happening basically. The idea with the birthmark was also really for the sake of it and also how Halmer's character was about to show his, but then realizes it wouldn't be appropriate was another failed attempt at comedy. As for the mother of the fourth child, her name is included in this film and it is ridiculous to believe that Atzorn's character, when reading this name on one occasion, does not know exactly what is going on here. I mean the name was not Müller or anything. Oh yeah, then there is also the idea of this contest. This already gets unwatchable when we see Brendler's character's presentation where she elaborates on how the old idea is sexist and uninspired (this anti-male film having the guts to call anybody sexist - unreal) and her presentation was so awesome of course that she gets asked by the man previously in charge immediately afterwards about her background. Of course, she initially suspects he is hitting on her because hey that's what all men do when they express interest in a woman. Even if it is just in a professional way.
How they go on with this contest is equally ridiculous. Like how hundreds of thousands people apply to be the girl next door. Yeah, right. And Brendler's character's comments during the interview were also really cringeworthy. How she says she is not surprised by the reaction. She knows how great she is. I mean her mother worked professionally with Helmut Kohl and Richard Gere it was I think. The arrogance they have here. Unreal. Back to the daughter: When asked, how she came up with the idea, we get another stupid response linked to long legs. Just a jokes as she lets us know. And was is the actual response? "Just like that." Ah yes, very insightful. Then, how we get the countdown as if we should care who gets picked and Feifel's character lackluster reaction there how nobody flashes him was just unwatchable too before he finds the one. And who is it? Of course, the mother of the other baby. Sure thing. With hundreds of thousands competitors. Good God! This film as a whole is such an atrocity. More moments that serve as evidence? The internet sllang talk between the two older characters. The cell phone tracking explanation. Is that even legal? All the fake conflicts that are magically solved at the end. The plane tickets there. Feifel's character playing with the kids at the same time. Oh and of course, we get a rushed-in marriage proposal too here in the first half of the movie. Sure thing. And pay attention to how much Wied enjoys saying the word "Schlampen" for some band or so. Again, unwatchable and terrible acting from her. This is pretty much enough now. You get the message. This film here never should have been made and actually same is true for the previous one. Major thumbs-down. 100% skip.
