Schwarze Schafe

This is low-budget-movie-making at it's worst. After 10 minutes (which are good for some laughs) you start to notice painfully, that there is virtually no script or story. And the jokes don't get better either. Instead the director follows the old teen movie-method the more disgusting the funnier. But since there is no story to speak of and since there are no sympathetic characters, you just don't care what happens to the these people. Instead you get angrier and angrier, because the film is noisy and hysteric all the time but hasn't got anything to say. It's a shame that a lot of good actors are wasted (although I wonder what made them join this film...)

I was curious about the movie since having seen some scenes on the official website. And these were brilliant and promising. But after having watched 15 minutes, I wondered whether this was going to be a parody or if the exaggerated clichés were meant to be plausible. Regrettably I still do wonder. There are a few scenes which - although they were predictable like everything in the movie - made me smile, but all in all it was too shallow to be sophisticated and too lame to be funny.

This movie could have been an interesting witty portrait of different subcultures in Berlin - of goths and heavy metal-heads, of gays, of life in social housing and of the 3rd migrant generation. Leaving out the scenes presented on the website only a superficial, longish trash-TV sketch remains.

8 reasons why this film is fantastic:

1 fantastic black humour

2 rad rock'n'roll soundtrack feat. king khan and BBQ show

3 it's black and white

4 the episodes are great and each one has the x factor - you could never decide which ones your favourite

5 its hilarious, even thinking of certain scenes makes me laugh

6 authentic acting - Marc Hosemann's nice ass

7 Böwe, Hosemann, Stadlober and Schilling at their best

8 overall: this film depicts Berlin in the truest way I've ever seen in a film (i was born, raised and spent my youth in this city)

I felt some of the reviews displayed were rather unfair to such a beautiful little gem of a movie. It steps away from the mundane American teen films where all these teenage networks must come together for an audience to understand the movie or find some point or moral. The beautiful black and white photography is a fine artistic choice from Rihs, maybe in homage to his own crazy memories.

The film is a study of the fickle teenagers lost in drugs, alcohol and sexual identity. Not to mention the wonderful critique of the bourgeois (the canal boat scenes) looking down upon these vagabond/rogue characters. They may look down but they still want a piece of the action.

A very funny film which pushes the boundaries of what a viewer is capable of finding amusing. Sodomy of your grandmother may not be to everybody's taste but I just had to giggle.

well acted, well presented and certainly well under rated.

go on give it a go!

„Pure delight! The Berlin scene at it’s wildest, kinkiest, weirdest funniest best. The discovery of the season! Why aren’t there more films like this?!!” Ron Holloway - Moving Pictures

„…a riot of filthy-minded fun … packed with affectionate digs and in-jokes about contemporary Berlin an the misfits an black sheep it’s powered by punk rock spirit and overheated libido … an anarchic multi-stranded odyssey that gives Clerks 2 a run for its money on the sexual deviancy front.” Wendy Ice - The Times

„Very refreshing” Leo Bankerseb - De Filmkrant

„Black Sheep was definitely the most provocative film I saw at the festival. Having said that I was, as a result, one of the shockingly hilarious. It genuinely received the greatest number of horrifies belly laughs of any press screening I attended.” Marshall Veniar - Glasgow Herald