Turkish for Beginners

2012 [GERMAN]

Adventure / Comedy

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 10236 10.2K

island airplane crash

Director

Bora Dagtekin Photo
Bora Dagtekin

Top cast

Ron Smoorenburg Photo
Ron Smoorenburg as Rescued airline passenger
Katja Riemann Photo
Katja Riemann as Uschi
Josefine Preuß Photo
Josefine Preuß as Lena Schneider
Elyas M'Barek Photo
Elyas M'Barek as Cem Öztürk

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by haris-cengic 7 / 10

A plane-crash doesn't have to be bad luck

There are two main reasons, why i've chosen to see this movie - first there's the funny TV-Show, finished a while ago and the very well chosen scenes from the trailer shown in cinemas. Compared to the TV-Show, the movie isn't less nor more funny - refreshed with new jokes according to the present situation in Germany (and the world).The actors are the same - it's the story that's told in a different way - awesome decision and thrilling plane crash (like seen in trailers). Actually, the crash let me go out of the movie with a bad attitude towards flying... Nevertheless, that's where the fun begins and you start to enjoy the movie, the Germans, the turks and the Greek. The end is predictable for those who've seen the show, but it is not taking the joy.Funny, funny, funny and entertaining 'til the credits!
Reviewed by kosmasp 5 / 10

Back to the beginning

Turkish for Beginners - well in this case the movie does try to go back in time. And give us a new story with the same characters overall. I thought I'd catch up with the TV show and watch the movie afterwards (chronologically speaking that made sense). But you'll fast realize that not much makes sense.While you might consider this a neat trick to give us the same ticks but a different set of circumstances ... it might have also been neat to see where the characters went after the end of the tv show ... which I guess was considered a neat ending - a little bit of a fairy tale if you will, that does not need any further stories. By releasing this 4 years after the initial show ended the characters are now farther removed from the real age of the actors portraying them. Which is nothing new if you've seen any US teen comedy/show/movie in general, where the actors are also much older than the characters they play.These are all circumstantial of course ... the real issues are the story and jokes. Very cliche and almost the opposite the show achieved. Predictable too and mostly unfunny, this still might sway you since we came to love or at least know those characters for such a long time ... not sure what this will do to first time viewers, even though it's not necessary to have seen the TV show at all
Reviewed by hotdogbebitis 6 / 10

Meh.

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