Flodder
Tags: humor

Plot synopsis:
When it emerges that the Flodder family’s current state-owned house is on a toxic waste dump, the city council is forced to find somewhere to move them. Social worker, Sjakie, proposes to move the family to an upper-class neighbourhood hoping that the change in social environment will have a positive effect on the problematic family.
However the family fails to adapt and persists in their anti-social lifestyle which clashes with the values of the reserved upper class inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who try everything in their power to get rid of the Flodders. This results in several confrontations between individual members of the family and the upper class inhabitants.
The town council, being aware of the problems the family is causing, starts looking into alternative living accommodations, although Sjakie keeps insisting that the family should be given another chance. In the meantime son Johnny starts a relationship with neighbour Yolanda Kruisman, much to the fury of her husband.
This culminates at a neighbourhood meeting being held to discuss how to get rid of the family. Johnny and Yolanda walk in announcing their engagement. They decide to throw a party where everyone is invited. Meanwhile, the town council finds a suitable alternative house for the family, but Ma Flodder discovers she has inherited a large sum of money from Opa Flodder who recently died in a train accident. With the money she decides to buy the house in which they are living. The climax of the film is the engagement party, which is attended by everyone and quickly gets out of hand; the people from the neighbourhood however have a great time and finally start to appreciate the family as they are. In the mean time Yolanda’s husband goes to the army base where he works and takes one of the army tanks. In the finale of the film he destroys the house of the Flodders who take it with good humour.

Review: A brilliant and outragously funny satire of society.
"Flodder" is one of the funniest movies ever made and few people realise that it is a Dutch movie made by none other than the Holland version of John Carpenter, the famous Dick Maas, author and director of the thriller "Amsterdamned".
The Flodder family is the reincarnation of the term a-social.
When the whole family bunch, basically all bastards, criminals and sluts must be relocated from their City slum because of toxic waste under their house, the city council house no choice.
The only available space is in the "Zoendal" - the "Sun Valley" the best area in Amsterdam where all doctors, snobs and businessmen can afford to live their lives.
And where the central point of interest and politics is the tennis club of the community.
The Flodder family brings devastation to the tranquil world that ruled before.
They are simply unbelievable.
The characterisation is incredibly funny, beginning with Ma Flodder who searches other people's trash cans for food or making illegal liquor in her cellar and ending with the eldest daughter who is the biggest slut on earth.
Together they make the most horrible family  imaginable, a sort of immoral mirror image to the Brady Bunch or the Waltons.
When the City counsel of Amsterdam hoped that the Flodders would show their good will to be more civilised in their new area, it turns out that Holland's most famous family would rather bring out the worst in the rich people of "Sun Valley"-wonderland.
The rest is a hilarious, brilliant and well made social satire that can be watched as a provocative movie as well as a straightforward comedy.
Dick Maas at his best.
I salute him!
Flooder was the Dutch smash hit in 1986 and brought two sequels and a tv series.
All of the sequels were nice but not as great as the original.Flodders (1986) is available on DVD in Germany in a dubbed German version in Dolby Digital 5.1.
under the name:"Flodders -Eine Familie zum knutschen"Why is First Floor Features, the producer of the movie not bringing the Dick Maas blockbusters out on DVD in the Netherlands, I wonder.
The are not even available on video there.
These movies have so much potential, still to this day and have a huge silent but true following..
Only a Dutchman could make such a movie!.
Dick Maas made and wrote his first of the Flodders-trilogy as a brilliant comedy without knowing that there would be two sequels which were not so strong.
The housing problem in Holland in cities like Amsterdam or Rotterdam is acute and there is above all the problem of illegal immigrants.
And what more is: living on a belt or next to a chemical plant can be dangerous.
Flodder is more than a simple comedy: it is also a social satire of the cool Dutch bourgeosie who wants to be isolated of the big towns where there is criminality and so on but who goes to the warm countries during holidays to change their mediocre existence.
Take Yolanda (Apollonia van Ravenstein), she is bored by her neighbourhood where never happens anything - there are f.i. no "café's" - and tired of her husband Kolonel Wim Kruisman (Herbert Flack) and she starts a sexual adventure with Johny Flodder (Huub Stapel).
Alcoholism is also a subject of the movie: the alcohol is made at home and consumed in high quantities and whisky is drunk in floods by Kolonel Kruisman.
This comedy is unsurpassed and is at the same time a sociological study of the escape out of town of the high-class citizens to the outskirts..
Brilliant.
Flodder is without a doubt the funniest film I've ever seen.
Timing is the keyword in this movie.
I've must have seen the movie for more than 30 times.
Every time I discover something new that makes me laugh out loud.
The acting is superb and so is the directing.
All in all, this is maybe the best movie ever made in Holland.10/10.
funny.
Although a poor film it contains more than enough good jokes, and that is just why it was being made.If you like the rude dutch sense of humor this would be a movie you certainly like.
Lots of influence of Brutti, Scorchi e Cattivi from Ettore Scola.
If you think flodder is a bit corny, go and see this tasteful movie..
crude humor, but entertaining.
An anti-social family moves, because of a ridiculous government experiment, into an upper class neighborhood.
The neighbors do not except the "Flodders" in their neighborhood.
Most of the jokes are about the inappropriate behavior of the Flodders and about the hypocrisy of the neighbors.
Mostly crude humor, but if you like that sort of thing than you will find this movie entertaining.
The characters are very stereotypical, which I think is a shame.
One never really connects with the characters.This movie clearly targeted an American audience rather than just a dutch audience..
Who to laugh about?.
Well, at first you are astonished and laugh about the Flodder-Family.
But if the movie continues you will see, that the freaks on this story are not the Family.
It may be the truth that, to identify freaks positively, you have to confront them with other freaks.Works still after 32 years.
One of my favourite movies..
The Beverley Hillbillies goes Dutch..
I ran this in my cinema.....
and for kids!
Oh dear!!...
in the 80s we used to screen midnight to dawn marathons for teenagers (and younger) who all came, pajama clad and spent the night at the movies.
THE FLODDERS was apparently some breakout hit in Holland so for the usual bizarre reason, it was rushed to Australia.
So, in the tradition of SEXTETTE, or UNDERSEA KINGDOM, or AT LONG LAST LOVE....
it was plonked into a midnight to dawn show for 'wake me up' value.
And eeeeeekkkkk!
a never ending stream of vulgar gags about this drunken fornicating spewing bumpkin family who move to a stylish suburb and the skid-marked mayhem they cause.
I clearly remember standing at the back of the theater watching from between my fingers as some oaf was fornicating on the bonnet of the family car...
when it was revealed - ha-ha- he didn't know it was (wait for it......) his daughter!
I ran screaming from my own cinema..
People here think that movie was made in Quebec!.
...and I thought the only things I knew about the Low Countries were wooden shoes, tulips, windmills and Rembrandt.
For the first eighteen years of my life, I thought that movie was made in Quebec.
In Canadian french, that movie and its two sequels were named "Les Lavigueurs Déménagent" ( The Lavigueurs are moving) after a poor Montreal family that won the lottery jackpot a few months before.
They were already the laughing stock of the province, then people started to think that movie was really about them!
The promoters thought they'd make a bunch of money out of what was "Flavor of the month" back then, not really smart, not really kind either.
The movie showed the Lavigueurs (Floodders) as ill-mannered, horny 24-7 (even incestuous!) hillbillies but if you ask me the real ill-mannered hillbillies without any class were the Quebec promoters for making money by covering other people's reputation in dirt.On top of that, the movie was one of the first foreign movies to be translated in joual (Quebec working-class slang) instead of the usual standard French and in the sequel, the family is said (still only in the Quebec version) to be from Saguenay.
Two more reasons for francophone viewers to think the movie is as quebecer as poutine and vachon cakes.The movie itself is still hilariously politically non-correct.
No matter what greedy promoters did here, it kicks butt all over the world!.
don't talk about OUR cinema in vain.
for me, "flodder" is one of the greatest dutch movie's ever made.
me coming from an average home and not being part of the "high society", i really enjoyed this movie, because i could relate.
i still at this time have something against people who think "they're sh*t doesn't stink" so i laugh my ass off watching it.
to me the best car chase ever is still the part where johnny (Huub Stapel) chases the tennis players who beat up his brother, ultimately ending the chase with those stuck up tennis players landing in a swimming pool of one of the recendents.
oh sure, films like the matrix reloaded and the island had cool effects in they're car chases, but it didn't make me jump to the edge of my seat.
flodder did though, because i WANTED the porche to crash or at least lose the chase.
i still think it's a classic, and i think it will always be.i've read some Belgium remarks about this movie and by some i'm insulted, not because of the movie but for example:"wearing wooden shoes" and saying that this movie is "average" don't talk about dutch cinema like that.
what good has Belgium contributed to cinema overall?
only hector (played by Urbanus) i really injoyed and further more you're movie's were not even worth mentioning.
THANK YOU..
A great Dutch classic.
This Dutch classic by Dick Maas, director of the highly suspenseful film 'The Lift' (De Lift - 1983) and the awful 'Sint' (2010), was a huge success in the Netherlands in the eighties, mostly appealing to those with the typical sense of humor of a teenager.I'm in my forties now and must admit I've seen it more than a dozen times and still enjoy it a lot.
It's quite rude but none more so than many other films I saw over the years and judging by Simon Pegg's and Nick Frost's success these days there's a more than willing audience for this kind of fun.The story is about a family of asocial misfits who are relocated to a villa in an upper class neighborhood, the only available place due to housing shortage.
Their eccentric behavior to say the least causes havoc among the local residents who take the law into their own hands trying to get rid of the family, eventually discovering they're not much different.
Housing issues are common in overcrowded areas in the Netherlands where in the eighties whole communities had to be taken down because of severe industrial pollution of the grounds they were built on.Most of the humor is of a sexual nature in a very basic sense.
It's with toe clenching satisfaction to safely observe so much obscenity but with an almost delicate touch that puts serious social problems into perspective.
Incest, alcoholism, neglect of the elderly, Dick Maas tackles them beautifully in a great social satire.Some reviews mention a typical Dutch sense of humor.
I think there's a certain amount of sexual obscenities and slapstick in films from loads of other countries and often with a much darker and scarier background.
If there must be a typical Dutch sense of humor I'd rather think of Alex van Warmerdam's films 'Abel' and 'The Northerners'.
If there's something typically Dutch in this film though, it's friendly rudeness.The film is done low budget but it doesn't make it any less enjoyable.
The acting is fine throughout the film and Nelly Frijda as Ma Flodder is epic.
She, Huub Stapel (Johnnie Flodder), René van 't Hoff (son Kees) and Tatjana Simic (daughter Kees) are showbiz veterans and as a team carry this film to a higher level than it's been given credit for.Look out for the memorable scene where daughter Kees for blackmail purposes seduces horny neighbor Neuteboom (Bert André).Followed by Flodder in Amerika!
(1992), Flodder 3 (1995) and a five season TV series (1993-1998).