Manta, Manta - Zwoter Teil

As a 13-year-old in the middle of the 90s, I loved Manta Manta. Therefore, I would have been very happy about an unexpected sequel. In the cinema I was first full of anticipation, then horrified and shortly afterwards extremely angry about the almost two hours of crap.

Now I watched the movie Manta, Manta - Zwoter Teil again and stopped it after 40 minutes. The movie is so bad and not worth another second of lifetime.

I don't know what I find worse. The plot, the dialogues, the editing or the performance of Till Schweiger. All unbelievably bad and unworthy to be seen.

One star is three stars to much.

Was a big fan of the first movie back in the days. But this movie destroys the whole charm of the first one. Really: every actor play like it was their first movie without acting classes, casted directly from street. Dialogs are very bad and sound very memorized without emotions. Sorry about that, could have been more.

Plot is dumb and very constructed. They should have left out the dialogs between Till and his daughter, because they are full of cliche and come over very unnatural.

Would have given 1 point, but soundtrack fixes a lot for me. The only point that gets the vibe from the first movie.

I don't believe the film would have done worse at the box office without the offensive and sexist jokes, since those were actually not the parts that most people laughed in anyways.

But the production quality is great. The sound design is great. The final race is very well done, nothing near fast and furious, but it still works nicely. Even though some people left in the middle of the movie, most people there had fun, but story wise, a lot just didn't make any sense.

The creators must be very glad about the fact that there is no cancel culture in Germany, because if there was, this movie would have had some serious troubles to face.

So the dialogues could have been much better. The acting is also pretty mediocre. The story is pretty lame and uninterestingly told, but I got some good laughs in. It's supposed to be a comedy and in that regard it certainly works.

The camerawork is fantastic. The sound design is great. The music sucks in my opinion for the most part, but other than that well I had fun in the cinema. It's an enjoyable movie for a broad audience.

I appreciate Til Schweiger way more in these kind of movies than him playing the depressed old guy. The movie had no depth, which always works in Germany for bigger audiences.

Just my personal opinion. Looking forward to the 3rd installment.

The first Manta movie was a must-see back in its day. The car tuning scene was in full swing, street racing was more present in entertainment, and D&W were in their hey days. Bochum/B1 was the place to be as a car guy back then.

This movie isn't nearly as iconic or relevant as the first one. And it's not trying to be.

It's good to see the actors from the original movie, but their dialogues, characters and overall plot development are just not up to modern standards. This movie could have been so much more, with a stronger focus on the modern cat culture, with a different brand engagement strategy.

Too bad nobody cared enough to realize all of it.

Coincidentally, the Ruhrpott also went downhill along with the local cult icons of former times.