Maybe... Maybe Not
by S?nke Wortmann
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Actor: Armin Rohde, Joachim Kr?l, Katja Riemann, Rufus Beck, Til SchweigerDirector: S?nke Wortmann
Writer: S?nke Wortmann
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Producer: Elvira Senft
Producer: Harald K?gler
Producer: Martin Moszkowicz
Producer: Molly von F?rstenberg
Writer: Ralf K?nig
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Date: 1997-01-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Studio: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Maybe... Maybe Not
Movie Review: Maybe . . Maybe Not (American title)
Summary: 3 Stars
There is only one reason to watch this film: sexy Til Schweiger. He has beauty and magnetism, besides being an extraordinary young actor with subtlety, power, and depth. Unfortunately, these qualities are all but lost in this heavy-handed comedy. It is beautifully shot but, considering its comedic intent, rather darkly. The story and its underlying principles leave much to be desired.
Handsome Axel (Schweiger) works in a 30's-style supper club, presumably to remind us of the wacky social farces of that period. He spots an attractive woman and gallantly accompanies her into a bathroom stall for a quickie. His girlfriend Doro is in the next stall and informs him that they're through. Axel is a very pretty boy but, looking for a place to stay, he is rejected with varying degrees of vehemence by former girlfriends all too familiar with his womanizing. Alas, with the opening credits barely over, we've seen the high point of the movie. And no one else even comes close to having any sex after Axel's inauspicious coitus interruptus.
Axel is adopted by a group of gay men in his hour of need. Norbert, a middle-aged nebbish, gives him a place to stay in hopes that there is a `maybe'. What ensues is a series of awkward and tasteless gags, mostly involving Axel's discomfort being around gays. Stereotypes abound, and no one comes off particularly well. The straight men are dorky, unattractive, and strangely mortified by the use of common euphemisms for breasts. The gay men are selfish, unattractive, and impossibly flamboyant (in case we miss the point). Doro is shrill, intolerant, and controlling. Adorable Axel is shallow, thoughtless, and virtually monosyllabic.
When Axel speaks of 'us normal men' we know where the film stands politically. The gays appear in women's clothes much of the time, but speak in exaggeratedly deep voices (in case we miss the point). Axel is deeply offended when cruised by a gay man -- especially surprising as he is in a gay dance club, hot and sweaty, wearing a sexy muscle shirt, and he has asked the man for a light and directions to the bathroom. `Nuff said.
The plot thickens - and so does the humor - when Doro discovers that she is pregnant and decides to get Axel back. She finds him in her own bed with unsightly Norbert, naked, initiating a most inept seduction. Despite this rather awkward reunion, Axel and Doro get married. Axel drops Norbert because his wife is 'allergic to gays' .
The downward spiral continues unabated. Norbert, a strict vegetarian, hooks up with a repellent and humorless butcher, about whom the best one can say is that he has shaved every inch of his boorish body. Axel cheats on Doro with a beautiful woman who has a penchant for animal stimulants. At last we hit rock bottom when, during boisterous bout of hysteria, Doro gets slapped and goes into labor. This is funny?
Til Schweiger is scrumptious eye-candy, and looks stunning throughout the film in tight t-shirts, muscle shirts, open shirts, no shirts. Thank heavens for small mercies. But, in one unfortunate aesthetic choice after the other, the odious older men appear in greater states of undress more often than the beautiful young man.
The ending has a nice feeling and suggests some reconciliation between Norbert and Axel. It's too little, too late.
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