Seraherrera
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Alistair Olson
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Cheryl
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
hanikingkong
(taking deep breath) first thing, my review /opinion might contain spoilers here and there so keep that in mind,OK lets shoot here :i am a longtime dieter Bohlen fan ,and i just bought the DVD unrated the DVD contain the movie and thats it no special features thats my ''criticism number 1 '' in real life he has a ''big ego problem'' and his latest 'D.S.D.S' productions sucked big time ,and didn't buy any of the ballad production albums for these stupid kids (except the talented Alexander Klaus ) but i still appreciate his early work as hardworking composer during MT and BS era ,plus the artists he worked with , and this dieter film just explained his life and music in 84 minutes !!!its didn't do any justice, the writers squeezed the story with more of his ex-wives in a sarcastic dull way ,and with the evil Nora too ,besides,when i bought it in DVD format i didn't find English subtitles and thats '' my 2nd criticism ''.now for the ''1st compliment'' the humor is''there'' ,and i enjoyed it , but that doesn't make dieter as a total saint ,the guy has his ups and downs even his book couldn't save him from people & the media,still DB is funny in person and on TV ,everyone knows that ,and in the movie they played him as a funny character,i liked the way the showed his love in making music,i loved the (studio sessions scenes ),everyone loved these scenes,even some of my friend who were anti-Bohlen were laughing in some parts specially when forming MT ,plus we all wanted more artists to be there there like CCcatch ,bonnie Taylor ,systems in blue ,but for some reason only Thomas anders ,englebert''sorry?''humperdinck and of and unknown lady singing ''midnight lady '', man you gotta love ''studio 33'' scenes , also the sex scenes in Rambo's apartment and Rambo's cameo was sweet.2nd compliment is the quality of the production itself , which i mean animation ,voice overs and the soundtrack all been put together in interesting was ,that the viewer wouldn't get bored during (a good technique with fast scene )also the soundtrack over the introduction ,romantic scenes/dating,and ending music sound track were chosen beautifully ,i would give this movie 8 of 10 , -------------- my general thoughts on the movie :DB made this movie for his fans ONLY ----------- my review on some the negative reviews here :I'm sure a lot of anti-dieter ''rappers'' didn't even say anything about the movie itself ,maybe i agree with whoever said the writers were ghosts (which means unexperienced writers ),hes totally right on the other hand most of the rappers ,immediatly started posting their poisons everywhere at the comment section acting like blind journalists (i expected that ),the reason ,they simply cant stand the guy and in the same time ,they posted here because 'they saw it ?'they cant '' get it '' at all , silly rappers,Dieter Bohlen .love him or hate him ,good music or bad music he's a money maker ,he can turn very product in to gold and we still have to pay and make him richer just like the movie and (just to remember the devil sign language his showed us at the end of this movie ) thats the real Bohlen and this is '' his film '' now get over it kiddie rappers
Carsten Corleis
Did you know Dieter Bohlen? No? Congatulations! It is really better so ;-) Here in Germany he was very popular. Co-founder of the group "Modern Talking" in the 80s. "Modern Talking" is fortunately almost forgotten today, but Dieter Bohlen was still on TV, mostly in the annoying and superfluous game-shows "Deutschland sucht den Superstar", a show, in which (mostly) talentless boys and girls trying to became the great pop-star of tomorrow. Bohlen had no talent too, but he earned very much money with this absence of real talent during the 80s with sterile and artificial pop-songs. I think, this money turned him into a conceited show off. But Dieter's star is falling: This movie was intended to get a theatrical release, but after Bohlens new book about his life and career turned out as a flop, the movie was put aside and i think, a lot of people that was involved, tried to pretend that it did not exist. You may guess now, that i don't like Dieter Bohlen? Yes! You're got it right!!So, when "Dieter - Der Film" was aired the other day here in Germany, i was not really eager to see it, but there was nothing better to find on the other TV-channels too . So, what now? Putting "The life of Brian" in the DVD-player again, or try "Dieter - Der Film"? I tried "Dieter...". And... i was positively surprised: It was not really bad at all. It is a animated movie that parody Dieter Bohlens career during the last 15-20 years. And it was fulfilled with a lot of gags. Not very subtle gags, it contains a lot of the "good old fashioned mayhem" that we know from Tex Avery and others. For example the many wives of Dieter, the most known are "Naddel" and Verona Feldbusch comes up here too... sometimes with breasts that have a atomic radiation label on it. Or Bohlen's partner, Thomas Anders, depicted as a very gay guy. Some funny spoofs of other movies are in it too: "Terminator", "The Lion King" and "Titanic" i have already reported to the IMDb. Another spoof of "Jurassic Park" comes up, when Anders girlfriend Nora entering the screen for the first time: The camera get a close up of a glass of water on the table, your hear the WOMMM....WOMMM...of her steps...and see the water surface vibrating... and, yes, Rambo appears as a guest-star too... Not all gags are of the first class, but looking the film, probably together with your friends and a accordingly amount of cool beer near your couch, is not wrong at all.
Fabian Seitz
Dieter Bohlen, Germany's notorious composer and producer of slightly trashy pop hits like "You're my heart, you're my soul" felt the need to tell his story - and gracefully he decided to hire a ghost writer. The result was a funny book about his life. Well, more or less a fuzzy image of it. He didn't deny that he is a selfish asshole but the whole story was twisted to fit his image of himself. No word that he has probably beaten up his former wife and she ended up in hospital. However it was written in a funny style and a huge success after his appearance as jury member of the German version of "American Idol" - especially his unforgettable comments.This should be the end of the story - really. In the hype of the mentioned "Idol" TV show called "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" (abbreviated DSDS) somebody must have come up with the terrible idea to make a movie out of the book. The result is "Dieter - der Film"I have rarely seen a movie which tries so desperately to be funny and fails so completely. None of the gags really hits the point. Naddel's voice and style of talking was getting on my nerves right away although Verona's voice should have done that more. Obvious, childish, predictable and lengthy gags destroy any motivation to watch this movie to the end within a few minutes. The content of the movie is a sloppy film adaption written sloppily down by a ghost writer based on Bohlen's sloppy idealized memory. They could have used this freedom to do almost everything. It was supposed to be a satire, but they failed. The story is totally uninteresting and the fact that the background voice is Bohlen himself guarantees that the whole film has nothing satirical at all.It's no wonder that it was considered to bad for a cinema release. The probability that this thing would have rotten in some archive was quite high until recently when the current season of DSDS turned out to be a mediocre success. With the "friendly" help of Germany's biggest yellow press newspaper "BILD" and the desperate situation for the TV station RTL to have something in the program while the still unbeatable show "Wetten dass... ?" is running on Channel 2 the movie finally arrived in television - unfortunately.Watching this movie is a waste of time - there are certainly better cartoons with much more fun and a story actually worth looking at.Therefore: 2/10
Xentronium
Sure, this one isn't really a blockbuster, nor does it target such a position. "Dieter" is the first name of a quite popular German musician, who is either loved or hated for his kind of acting and thats exactly what this movie is about. It is based on the autobiography "Dieter Bohlen" wrote a few years ago but isn't meant to be accurate on that. The movie is filled with some sexual offensive content (at least for American standard) which is either amusing (not for the other "actors" of course) or dumb - it depends on your individual kind of humor or on you being a "Bohlen"-Fan or not. Technically speaking there isn't much to criticize. Speaking of me I find this movie to be an OK-movie.
