Toni Erdmann (2016)

First: I am very glad that ,finally, I read critics from many people who have really knowledge about what making a feature film is. The film is very boring, too long, uninteresting characters, for most people the dialogs are moreover not interesting for most viewers. For example: most people will not be interested in conversations about commercial activities of CEO's. There are some funny moments, yes..... Really a movie to forget as soon as possible. It made me glad that Cannes did not give any prize to this movie Its therefor even more a shame that there was given the Prize of the international filmcritic: do the members of this "club" have also an interest to promote this film? In Holland there are also some filmcritics who seem to have an interest to promote some bad films.....

While it might not be the general consensus but I didn't really enjoy this movie that much. The idea and the story were fine but the way it was all put together just didn't work for me. The beginning of the movie was so slow, not setting a good feel for the main action of the movie. My other main issue was the characters. I struggled to connect with either the father or daughter thus taking me out of the movie. While I understand the father was a practical joker I got the feeling more of that he was doing his bits without any thought of the people he was doing them too, thus I just couldn't feel sorry for him. As to his daughter I never felt like I ever could get a handle of just who she was. This of course was not the design of the director so I can see where I failed to fully understand the movie as designed to be seen.

I feel at a loss when it comes to the love for beloved Oscar nominated German dramedy Toni Erdmann.I've tried to understand why this excessive, criminally long and utterly weird (not funny) film, that at its core tells a rather generic and ordinary story of a father and his daughter has been so blatantly fawned over by many a top critic but I just can't see or understand why Maren Ade's tale has become the so-called classic it's been labelled with.Over 160 minutes of runtime we the audience get the "privilege" of following around the odd Winfried Conradi whose relationship with his business driven daughter Ines leads him to take up a persona of Toni Erdmann, a self-professed life coach that starts to follow Ines around to become a part of her working life. It's a story with potential but told as dryly and blandly as Ade tells it, this ends up being a rare foreign film where you just can't wait to see a more tightly structured and funny Hollywood remake.There's nothing wrong with Peter Simonischek or Sandra Hüller's central performances as father and daughter duo Winfried and Ines and the two actors are both game to partake in some odd scenarios, from cupcake antics, odd birthday parties to awkward nights out with the girls, but Toni Erdmann has surely hoodwinked people into thinking strange and bizarre is in fact genius at work and while some who like their films cut from the bizarre corner of filmmaking will lap up Toni Erdmann's fondness for the odd, there will be other viewers such as me you don't buy into what Erdmann is selling us.It will be interesting to see how Hollywood tackles the stories untypical nature, but there's enough love flowing for the film around the place that acting legend Jack Nicholson has shunned his retirement plans to appear in the remake as the titular Erdmann while Girls superstar Lena Denham is attached to help work on the script, showcasing that Erdmann has its large portion of fans and few detractors.Final Say – Quite clearly Toni Erdmann wasn't for me and I understand that I will be one of only a few who didn't find this slow, charmless and cold experience that's trying to be an odd yet touching tale of a father and daughter, a sight for sore eyes.For those that get on board the journey of Winfried and his quest to reconnect to his daughter, Toni Erdman will be near 3 hours' worth of quality dramatics with laugh out loud oddness, for the other bewildered few, Toni Erdman is one of last year's most unduly praised experiences.1 cupcake out of 5

I'm flabbergasted by the high rating of this film. Complete waste of time. I'm very disappointed in this movie after all the hype of being an Academy Award nominee and all that. I must say that I'm a fan of German cinema and after watching some fine comedies from that country I really wanted to see this one. I really was looking forward to seeing it but it turned out to be an absolute nonsensical bore-fest. The script made no sense, the characters are unpleasant and the acting was uninspired to say the least. I could've also done without the 'cupcake scene', nothing remotely funny nor sexy about it. Anyway, I hadn't written a review in so long it was unfortunate that this was the movie that bothered me enough to do it. My advice is: skip it, you won't be missing anything