ya1973 Review of Het schnitzelparadijs

Het schnitzelparadijs (2005)

Never walked out of a movie before - until this one!

[1/10 · 20 June 2007]

I never walked out of a movie before. Until this one. It took me exactly 25 minutes. Some things about it made me smile, but it was more of a forced smile mixed with some hope that this would turn out to be a funny movie. I am quite drawn to the Netherlands and tend to like dutch movies. This one is a total disgust, at least the first 25 minutes. Its not that I have no idea about "life in a restaurant kitchen" but summing up some really disgusting scenes and pretending to be "funny" is simply ridiculous. Is this movie supposed to be provoking? Shocking? Entertaining? I thought it was full of clichés (re. immigrants for example) and God!! some incredibly cheap jokes. Sorry, but accumulated nonsense and disgust don't really appeal to my sense of humour ... went to the drugstore afterwards for some shopping and boy was that entertaining in comparison! PS: My review was much shorter originally as I don't think there is really much to comment on but I couldn't post without a minimum of 10 lines, so this is the extended version of my "thumbs down" ;-)