In general, I don't think too highly of Til Schweiger as an actor and after watching Keinohrhasen, I'd even say that he's certainly a better writer and possibly director as well. That doesn't mean, however, that his acting in "Keinohrhasen" was bad. Ludo is the perfect role for him playing a bon vivant photographer who, as often and intensely as he can, enjoys the pleasures of life: cars, wine and women of course. Until a mishap (crashing boxer Klitschko's marriage proposal) at his job results in him being sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Consequently, he meets kindergarten worker Anna (Nora Tschirner), a woman who he used to bully back when they were children and she certainly enjoys her revenge right now. Of course, not much surprisingly, the relation between the two quickly changes in the completely opposite direction.I think this is a great film to watch with your significant other, or on a all-girls movie night. It's probably generally more suited for female audiences (as mostly with the genre), but any man who refuses to watch it because of that, is clearly missing out as it offers the audience some nice lessons on relationships, love, sex and life of course. Literally every scene has some kind of funny momentum and it's really an excellent screenplay that Schweiger and Anika Decker came up with. It oozes charm and humor and even at not much under 2 hours, which is always a bit critical for comedies, the film never starts to drag. Tschirner creates a truly memorable character and delivers a convincing display of all different kinds of emotions: anger, vindictiveness, joy, love, despair... and if it did not happen already earlier, it was this film that catapulted her into the Champions League of German actresses. In addition to her great performance, Schweiger really used his connections to get almost everybody with a big name in German cinema to have at least a 5-second cameo. Slightly bigger parts are played by Jürgen Vogel (as himself), Armin Rohde and Rick Kavanian, who are all three nothing short of fantastic with the characters they're given and bring some much-appreciated comedic delight.If you enjoyed this film, there's also a sequel featuring most of the main characters from the first you could take a look at and right now there's an animated spin off coming out featuring the rabbit without ears and chicken with two ears, the two characters that gave the films their names. This one is certainly more suitable to children than the two live action films, but with Schweiger and his daughter doing the voice acting certainly not exclusively. In any case, I recommend "Keinohrhasen" a lot. It gave me a pretty good time watching for sure.

Keinohrhasen squeezes by as a chick flick. Of course, if you're into Til Schweiger, this is what you'll be getting galore (although he shows surprisingly little skin here). If, like me, you revile this no-talent pretty boy, you're in for a long and dire ride.Ludo (Til Schweiger) is a hotshot tabloid journalist and a serial one- night-stander, before he is sentenced to 300 hours of social service in a Kindergarten. This day care centre, unlike other such institutions in Berlin, is set on a farm somewhere in Denmark (by the looks of it) and is run by no more than two women, who are also flatmates and sleep in the same bed. Cue lots of cute scene of macho hardbody Til Schweiger being a super surrogate dad for the tiny tykes, and eventually and predictably falling for the square (she wears glasses) ugly duckling Anna.So the story is super-naff and Til Schweiger plays the only role he is capable of (himself), but this is partially compensated by the female leads Nora Tschirrner (Anna) and Alwara Höfels (Miriam, Anna's sassy colleague). While Höfel is likable as the trash-talking floozy with a heart, Tschirrner believably and memorably carries of her role of a socially inept and insecure everywoman by rebranding her natural laconicism as the protective shield of a social outcast.Overall, it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated.

Yeah, I dreaded it. Even though I am a fan of predictable and cheesy romantic comedies. I find Nora Tschirner quite beautiful and the soundtrack used in the film is simply amazing.How come I absolutely disliked this movie? That is a question easy to answer. 'KeinOhrHasen' is nothing else, but roughly two hours of flat slapstick-jokes, Til Schweigers constant celebration of himself and vaunt and a completely unrealistic and unreasonable 'love'story. Everything in this movie appears constructed and put in place, there is no reasonable development, no witty humor or moral epiphany.It justifies superficial sex and One-Night-Stands, subverts every moral of feelings or love and leaves one with the bitter taste of knowing, that it tries to be a romantic comedy in modern age, but simply ends up being a romantic comedy without any serious romance or comedy. The only real tension the two main characters ever experience, is when she tells him she is shaved - everywhere. Personally, I want a romantic comedy to be about two people falling in love, fighting for their love and ending happily ever after. Not two completely out-of-place characters that feel randy about the other.Just almost two hours of Til Schweiger, standing there in a suit, trying to justify his douchebag-y behavior and superficial relationship to women.

Don't get me wrong, Til (and I know you'll be reading this), you're already a very accomplished director. But that script really needed some more work.Seriously, first you seem to simply forget about some characters (Lolo just disappears. He's still there to be seen, but he doesn't take part in the story anymore and completely forgets about his trademark aggression and unpredictability.), second Anna falls for Ludo pretty suddenly and with very little incentive, third you're using that 'People talking way too loud in restaurants' gag too often, fourth some of the scenes don't make any sense at all (sadly most of them involving Matthias Schweighöfer, who is a great actor but his character just doesn't have enough to do here and has some scenes instead that don't seem to serve any purpose), fifth - where did that between Moritz and Miriam come from? That was really underdeveloped. Sixth: Armin Rohdes whole character is just one big stereotype (the douche bag acting as clown for kids). But most of all (here come the spoilers):The third Act breaks down completely. I still go along with Jürgen picking up Anna in the park out of sympathy. But then she, who showed us some really beautiful dresses earlier in the movie, doesn't change for a red carpet event?!? While Jürgen does? And she doesn't look too uncomfortable with this? Admit it, you threw out a scene here that would have explained this, right? And the climax in the theater... Those people made up their minds about not enjoying Ludo as Mucki pretty fast, didn't they? And where did all that fruit come from all of a sudden? I am ready to suspend some disbelief when I go to a movie, but not THAT much. And I was hoping for one last dialog between Jürgen Vogel and Ludo. After all, Jürgen played a really mean trick on him but then let go off the girl for Ludo. I wanted to see some sign of newly found mutual respect between these men, who after all have a little personal history between them. Oh, and I already new the joke from the last scene. Old one. But you directed that very nicely.So all in all, you get ten stars for the brilliant comedy ("Barfuß", which I LOVED, was even better, but this was very funny, too) but five stars deducted for some awful writing, which I know you can do better. And hope you will do better for your next project, which I am looking forward to.