I watched the first episode thinking the characters were speaking with unintelligible accents until my grandma came in and asked me what the movie was about and I told her I don't know, I can't understand what they're saying. She pointed out that they were speaking German and we figured out how to use the remote control to make them start speaking English. Honestly, I liked the movie better when I couldn't understand the dialogue.
This is a beautifully filmed story about a selfish, childish loser who goes home to ruin everyone's Christmas. You'll love most of the characters as they're interesting and likable and you want them to be happy at Christmastime. But you'll resent the film when it allows good things to happen for the main character, because you hate him. The actor, Luke Mockridge does a good job but his Bastian character is an awful person, a complete POS with no redeeming value. The location shots are charming and there are some fun moments, but overall it's a worthless story about mental illness and other boring stuff I don't even remember, and the music makes you want to vomit. Here are the spoilers:
Bastian outs his gay friend in public, goes on stage in front of hundreds of people and using a microphone, brags about banging Karina and then tells everyone that his dad has cancer, then tells everyone in the crowd that they're idiots. So yeah, the dad has cancer and the Bastian character is, sadly, perfectly healthy. If there is a gott in himmel they'll make a 4th episode where Bastian takes a toaster into the bathtub and the dad and everyone else can enjoy a nice holiday.
I had to rage-kick my television off the wall after watching this stupid movie. Wear solid boots if you plan to watch it because you'll need to kick down your TV too. And remember when that happens that I told you so. Not that I'm one to say I told you so, but if you read the previous paragraphs you'll see that I did tell you so.
This is a beautifully filmed story about a selfish, childish loser who goes home to ruin everyone's Christmas. You'll love most of the characters as they're interesting and likable and you want them to be happy at Christmastime. But you'll resent the film when it allows good things to happen for the main character, because you hate him. The actor, Luke Mockridge does a good job but his Bastian character is an awful person, a complete POS with no redeeming value. The location shots are charming and there are some fun moments, but overall it's a worthless story about mental illness and other boring stuff I don't even remember, and the music makes you want to vomit. Here are the spoilers:
Bastian outs his gay friend in public, goes on stage in front of hundreds of people and using a microphone, brags about banging Karina and then tells everyone that his dad has cancer, then tells everyone in the crowd that they're idiots. So yeah, the dad has cancer and the Bastian character is, sadly, perfectly healthy. If there is a gott in himmel they'll make a 4th episode where Bastian takes a toaster into the bathtub and the dad and everyone else can enjoy a nice holiday.
I had to rage-kick my television off the wall after watching this stupid movie. Wear solid boots if you plan to watch it because you'll need to kick down your TV too. And remember when that happens that I told you so. Not that I'm one to say I told you so, but if you read the previous paragraphs you'll see that I did tell you so.