Review of Go for Zucker

"Alles auf Zucker!" or "Go for Zucker!" or just "Zucker" is a German movie from 2004, so this one is already way over a decade old as well. It runs for roughly 1.5 hours and it is among the most known works by director and co-writer Dani Levy and lead actor Henry Hübchen. Buth received a great deal of awards attention here, for example at the German Film Awards. I have no idea why that is really. It may have to do with Levy's Jewish background and that he makes a movie about Jewery that has nothing to do with the years of Nazi Germany or war crimes, but is a more modern take on the subject. And maybe comedies on this subject are actually really rare, especially here in Germany. But this alone does not make it a good film. I myself cannot say I enjoyed the watch very much, let alone that this was really entertaining or deep. Hübchen is okay for the most part, but even if I like him I cannot really deny that his performances sometimes look very much alike. A German Film award may have been too much. A nomination may have been fine too. And Hannelore Elsner's nomination is definitely way too much. She was not lead and she did not give a portrayal that was memorable whatsoever. In my opinion, the film lacks clear focus on some occasions and when it doesn't, it is also merely okay from the perspective of story-telling. I wish I could at least recommend this to snooker players worldwide, but this is also not the case as this story-line was not as memorable as it could have been either. So what stays eventually? Not much. It is in my opinion not even among the better German films of 2004 and it's outrageous this film dominated back then over "Sophie Scholl" and "Downfall". I have no idea how anybody could think this one is better than these two Oscar nominated films really. Absolutely no idea. "Alles auf Zucker!" is not a really bad film by any means, but it never gets beyond mediocre quality, even if you ignore all the unrealistic moments it has. I personally would call it something you'd get if a Coen Bros movie goes very wrong, which luckily never happened really, a very poor man's version of "A Serious Man" almost. Don't watch.