Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

morrison-dylan-fan With this being one of the first Czech Sci-Fi movies that I heard about,I was disappointed to find that the only DVD on sale was an expensive out of print edition.Whilst looking on Youtube for other Czech films,I was delighted to somehow stumble upon this title,which led to me getting ready to scald myself with tea.The plot:Spending his life regretting that Hitler failed to win (!),former Nazi Klaus Abard decides to travel back in time with modern weapons that will help Hitler to win the war.Joined by some of the world's brightest,the time travelling machine driver Karel Bures goes for a bite with his twin brother Jan,and ends up choking to death on a bread roll.Aware of the mission that Karel has signed up for,Jan decides to secretly pretend to be his brother.Going back in time,Jan,Klaus and the other guests get an unexpected frosty reception from Hitler.View on the film:Shot when the Soviet Union was building major new infrastructure in the country,co-writer/(along with Josef Nesvadba & Milos Macourek) director Jindrich Polák and cinematographer Jan Kalis wrap the movie in an oddly optimistic atmosphere,thanks to breaking out of the studio and using the new buildings for a chic Sci-Fi sheen,and the frosty outdoors to cover the gang in the ice of Nazi Germany.Making most of the gang Nazi supporters,the screenplay by Polák/ Nesvadba and Macourek treads a fine line by taking a merciless dagger to the gang,who the writers hilariously paint as being a bunch of pompous, stubborn buffoons who even get on Hitler's nerves.Joined by a funky score from Karel Svoboda,the writers superbly loop the Sci-Fi loop with real precision,as an avoidance of the "traditional" time travel changes history route leads to the opening of alt realities and sharp twist and turns in the trust that the gang have for each other.Taking on two roles, Petr Kostka gives an excellent performance as Jan and Karel Bures,who Koska makes look wonderfully uncomfortable in their own skin,as the Bures scald themselves with tea.

Petri Pelkonen In the 1990's people are able to make tourist trips to the past (if only).A group of aging Nazis, who are taking some pills to stay young, want to take advantage of that.They plan to travel back to 1944 (only they end up in 1941) and hand Adolf Hitler a hydrogen bomb.That way he would win WWII.Time travel pilot Karel Bures has been bribed to help them.But then Karel dies.He chokes on a croissant.And his twin brother Jan becomes him.Will he be able to stop the evil plan of these nasty Nazis? Or will the world suffer from Hitler's Thousand Year Reich? Jindrich Polák's Zítra Vstanu a Oparím Se Cajem (1977) is quite funny time travel movie.Its English title is Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea.Petr Kostka plays both Jan and Karel Bures.Jirí Sovák plays Klaus.Kraus is played by Vladimír Mensík.Valerie Chmelová plays Helena.I saw this movie on TV last night.I haven't seen too many Czechoslovakian movies in my life, but when I read the plot of this one, I just had to see it.The whole time travel theme has always fascinated me, ever since I saw Back to the Future.It's most enjoyable to watch those time travelers telling Hitler, and showing him some moving image, of how he will lose the war.Czechoslovakian time travel movie doesn't get too much better than this.

poldiman This is one of the best films ever made, and even the "Zabil jsem Einsteina, panove" (I killed Einstein, Gentlemen) isn't as good as this piece. Since I have read through comments, I feel need to write down the correct plot. It's being screened in Czech Republic once a year or like. I have a recorded VHS tape from the TV version in Czech, so I had gone through it two times now to be sure not to screw up the storyline.Beginning. The group of old Nazi's in Argentine, who are rich and take pills to slow down aging, stoles the last atomic weapon in the world from museum. They intend to use the service of a time-travel company called Universum which is located in Prague. They hire Karel Bures, a lazy, nasty pilot who flies the time-machine rockets. His twin-brother Jan is an engineer and constructed those rockets (that's why he could easily switch places). Klaus Abard, a former SS-man (played by Josef Sovak) and Ing. Bauer (played by Vlastimil Brodsky), accompanied by a younger pro-Nazi gangster Kraus (Vladimir Mensik), travel to Prague.Now, the good and little simple-hearted Jan (who is BTW in secret love with stewardess Helena), makes a tea and is in kitchen when his brother Karel, breakfast in bed, suffocates himself with a bake-roll. Jan hurries to doctor but he's late. When calling to his brother's girlfriend he for some unknown reason states he's Karel, not Jan. Jan Receives call from Abard, who asks if the clothes and seats (means reservation and uniforms) are done. Jan, looking onto couch and in the closet informs him all is OK :)He dresses up as a pilot and goes to visit the girlfriend's family. He refuses however to marry Karel's (or now his) girlfriend and is thus expelled. Goes to work, where he meets Helena, but is rejected as Helena has bad experience with Karel. Complications begin, when Jan gives his suitcase to a technician and it's put into the rocket luggage area. Another error comes up with an old American couple having bought two seats for the trip, appear and demands to accompany the three Nazis. Jan allows to do so cause he doesn't know about the Karel's deal with Nazis. Mrs. White suitcase is put into luggage too.As the rocket starts, Abard requires to see the captain. However he's refused by the stewardess and by Jan, thus having to break into cabin and letting Ing. Bauer take over control. The rocket with Jan, stewardess Helena, three Nazis, and the American couple, travels through time and lands near Hitler's command.As Abard, Bauer and Kraus wearing Nazi uniforms travel to Hitler's command, the rocket with locked rest of crew and passengers is discovered by a guard. Meanwhile, Abard finally enter's Hitler room, where he states he's "Coming in the darkest hour to save the Reich", and as proof he states than in few minutes Hitler will receive call from the Eastern front, that Russians have crossed the Oder River. However, the problems appear more. Ing. Bauer mistyped the entry data and the rocket landed in December '41. Germans stand at gates of Moscow and Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor. Rest of the rocket crew and the couple is brought in. They recognize now nervous Nazi, and the final blow is when Abard presents the suitcase to Hitler, only to discover he switched the H-bomb case for Mrs. White's personal luggage. As lingerie is presented, order is given to take out all suspects and shoot them. In last desperate effort, Abard presents a player with few scenes from the "now future" course of war. (for those interested, music accompanying the short film is Tango Notturno from same name movie, perhaps sung by Pola Negri).Hitler expels all personnel and watches the video, driving himself crazy. By means I will not bother to write down, Jan, Bauer and Kraus manages to escape, while old Abard and rest of the people is shot by war Abard. They get to time-rocket and go back to the present time.Now, in present time, Jan explains how he switched place of his brother Karel and why he landed a day earlier. Kraus takes care of him and Bauer hurries to save original Karel,but is injured and unsuccessful. Kraus continues to the hotel room, where he shoots the previous version of Ing. Bauer (doesn't know that "his" Bauer is dead as well). As Kraus explains to Abard, they agree on the necessity to repeat the action, now correctly.On the city garbage dump, Jan-Karel regains clear mind and stops a truck to city. Runs as well to save original Karel but is unsuccessful again. In some misunderstanding, original Jan doesn't believe that Jan-Karel is Jan, but always refers to him as Karel. They cause real mess and get killed original Jan and the girlfriend family. For now, the scene is ready for another escalation.

tedg Here's a film that is improved by knowing its context. Czech films just aren't very good. It isn't that Czechs aren't clever or intelligent. And they do have a rich stage culture. But some cultures map cinematically and some don't. And those that do, map in different ways. Fascinating. However, this film has a very clever story. And it is more clever than it seems, because of the way we are spoonfed the answers. A man goes back in time to create a double, changing events. Its a bit elaborate, involving Hitler and latter-day Nazis, but that's beside the point.The complexity is really about the doubles and working out the intercessions. Loves and affairs. Some clever humor here, similar to the Shakespearian bits about disguises.It all ends well, and there is no puzzle, unlike, say "Primer." But wait! Actually there is. There's a hint that the fact that our hero has a twin is a result of the doubling, and that the events will repeat over and over again later.I searched this odd film out in my quest for the quintessential Czech movie. This may be it. (The production values are poor.)Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.