ZAZ's greatest movie and Kilmer is actually fun to watch

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2005)

Germans have always been a target for either parody or down right ridicule and there are not much prejudiced German behavior that isn't given the full once over here. Still, when you see this movie you will find yourself laughing at the most stupid, almost racist remark and you will kick yourself afterward to find out why the hell it was so funny.
Let me say that I had absolutely no idea who Val Kilmer was when I first saw this back in the mid-80's but without stretching much of the truth, I have to say that I have never enjoyed watching him more than in this movie. Since then he has mostly disgusted me with the rather ugly characters he has played like Iceman in Top Gun and the worst, Jim Morrison. He had some appeal in Heat but that was a great movie for a whole other reason.
There are virtually no other famous actors in this movie and the leading lady, Lucy Gutteridge has never filmed a well known movie to this date as far as I can recollect. The most well known after Kilmer is of course, Michael Gough. It's funny that many years later they would play master and servant in the third Batman film totally by accident.
This movie can only be described as pure gold from start to finish and there are so many funny scenes that my eyes were in tears midway through the whole event. If you should point out a flaw it's the annoyingly smug Nigel but I think he was meant to be that way, a total perverted Ken look-a-like.