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Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001)
Nowhere in memory!
"Nowhere in Africa" is truly a candidate for being the most overrated German film ever made. It is obvious that it only won the Oscar for dealing with the Holocaust topic. After having heard about the positive acclaim for the movie I was enthusiastic about watching it but got terribly disappointed. This movie has absolutely no climax, not to mention any key sequences. I second the opinion of another reviewer that each scene seems to have been filmed for itself without any connection to the others. The two main characters playing the Jewish couple were in my opinion miscast and Caroline Link's wooden direction doesn't allow any emotional movements. This all makes the movie a pointless mess without a single memorable moment. A soap opera director couldn't have made it worse than Link did. Being German myself, I'm probably supposed to like this movie... but I don't. A German movie that really would have deserved the Academy Award for best foreign film was "Schtonk", a truly brilliant satire. But there are also many other new German films which are much superior to this one. I believe that 3 stars out of 10 is a fair rating.
TV total (1999)
Avoid this crap at any cost!
When TV Total was aired once a week it was a really nice show. But since its airing has been broadened to 5 times a week, it has become more and more annoying. Raab uses the very same (sometimes racist, sometimes childish) cliché-based jokes (like i.e. all Polish people steal bikes and car radios, all people in former GDR are unemployed, all males living in Cologne are gay,...) to provoke a few cheap laughs out of his audience. Some of Raab's silly ideas like the "Wok World Championship" make the whole thing a little more watchable but not actually funny. If you're looking for something funny, the worst sitcom will do better than this show.