7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug
Tags: fantasy

Plot synopsis:
Hansel and Gretel are lost in the forest. Gretel thinks to see a dwarf in the bushes but it is a disgusting humanlike creature. It scares Hansel and Gretel who run further into the woods. Bubi appears not much later and he asks the creature his name. The creature only reveals to be "The Evil One" and nobody else knows his real name. Bubi sneakily follows the creature and witnesses how it dances around a fire singing a song in which he mentions his real name.
The story moves to the castle where Snow White lives. She became a mother. Her husband, the jester, left a year ago to buy some cigarettes in a nearby shop. Snow White wonders why this takes so long. The Evil One suddenly enters the castle and claims the child. The day before Spliss, one of Snow White guards, rescued The Evil One from a trap. The Evil One wanted to thank Spliss by giving him a wish. Spliss wished to have a beautiful haircut which he got. However, Spliss did not like the color and wanted to have it blond. The Evil One agreed on condition Spliss signs a contract so Snow White's child will become his property. Snow White asks The Evil One if the contract can be undone. The Evil One agrees nor or less: if someone can reveal his real name within 48 hours, Snow White can keep the child.
Snow White seeks for the dwarves, but is surprised only Bubi still lives in the cabin. Bubi explains this is Snow White her own fault. Some time ago she visited the dwarves telling them her husband is missing. She wanted to find a new man and this could be even a dwarf. There was one main condition: the man must have a successful career. Not much later all dwarves left except Bubi. Snow White is a bit surprised she can't remember her visit. Snow White asks Bubi to reunite the dwarves and to find the name of The Evil One.
The six other dwarves work in a nearby town. Cookie, Cloudy and Sunny have their own inn. Speedy is chief of the fire department. Ralfie works at the brewer. Tschakko exterminates vermin. Bubi finds them all to convince them to help Snow White. According to them, there is only one man who can help them: The Wise Grey. The dwarves can't find him. According his diary, he left for "The Fishing Palace" in another world. The dwarves find the magical mirror which once belonged to the former queen. They jump into the mirror and end up in the other world: modern Germany.
In the meantime, The Evil One arrives at the candy house of the witch, who is actually the former queen. The Evil One follows a therapy. The queen says she cannot remember three things: names, faces and a third other thing she does not know anymore. As the witch always forgets the real name of The Evil One, last one writes it down on a paper: Rumpelstiltskin. He puts the paper in an envelope and hides it in the witch her conjuring book. The Evil One tells Snow White her baby will soon be his although he is afraid someone is in search for his real name. The witch uses her crystal ball and discovers the dwarves set up a mission. As she is still mad on the dwarves and Snow White she sends The Evil One to the other world to boycott the dwarves. The Evil One is gifted: he is a shape shifter.
The dwarves find The Wise Grey in some sort of fish and chips-stand. He does know The Evil One but never heard his real name. He does know the dwarves should look for it in the witches' candy house. The dwarves return to their own world by using a magic mirror in the railway station. In meantime, The Evil One tried unsuccessfully to stop the dwarves.
The dwarves head to the candy house where the witch tried to make her invisible. The Evil One is also present. The dwarves use a tricky way to obtain the envelope with The Evil One's real name. They all go to Snow White. However, The Evil One gave the dwarves an envelope with another name so the dwarves think his real name is Mother Hulda. They realize it was not Snow White who visited them to tell she is in search for a new man, but The Evil One. Eventually, Bubi says the real name is Rumpelstiltskin. He knew this the whole time and tried to tell but nobody let him speak. The dwarves also meet their former head dwarf Brummboss who became a king at the end of Männer allein im Wald. The king asks if he can become a dwarf again. This is rejected by the others as there are already seven dwarves.

Review: Simply awful and unwatchable.
A really bad sequel.
Part 1 had a lot of funny moments - part 2 is just bad (in a boring way) and obviously made to squeeze money out of the fans.Shame on you, Otto Waalkes!The only slightly amusing moment in the film is Helge Schneider who apparently seems to be pis*ed about the other characters.
It's quite easy to identify with him...The screenplay is sloppy/non-existent.
The director should do everyone a favor and quit his job immediately.
The acting is worse than a 2nd grade school play.
Technically the movie is awful as well, but who can blame the cinematographer/sound guys who had to work with such an untalented director?.
Argh.....
There are a lot of highly talented filmmakers/actors in Germany now.
None of them are associated with this "movie".Why in the world do producers actually invest money in something like this this?
You could have made 10 good films with the budget of this garbage!
It's not entertaining to have seven grown men running around as dwarfs, pretending to be funny.
What IS funny though is that the film's producer (who happens to be the oldest guy of the bunch) is playing the YOUNGEST dwarf.The film is filled with moments that scream for captions saying "You're supposed to laugh now!".
It's hard to believe that this crap's supposed to be a comedy.Many people actually stood up and left the cinema 30 minutes into the movie.
I should have done the same instead of wasting my time...Pain!.
Complete Waste of Time.
I agree with most of the other guys.
A waste of photons and valuable time.Nearly no joke is worth the paper is was written on.
The only highlight from my pov is Olli Dittrich as Pinocchio.
("Egal, ich muss eh Waldsterben") This reminds of old times with RTL Samstag Nacht.
It is hard to describe the performances of the actors, since most of them don't even seem to have a good time during production and just "do their thing".
Camera is OK, plot is laughable, I think you would be ashamed even if you discuss this with lots of beers.Apart from this I yawned all the time, wondered about how a script like this could even be considered for production and waited for the end.My 9 year old son was pleased, but then he is pleased by so little at this age :-)Anyway, a 1 point rating here nearly is 1 point too much....
As dumb as most of German TV-broadcasts - ban this from cinemas.
I've seen the first of the dwarf-Movies and sometimes I had little fun watching it.
There are many famous TV/Comedyactors appearing in the first part and presented, in fantasy costumes, typical little episodes of their Stand-Up-Program and exactly that is the problem the second movie has to struggle with.
Everything was already there....nothing new to obtain.
You're familiar with most of the often boring and dumb "jokes" and you always feel like their goal was to put in every Comedylooser of the last decade who wants to get back on stage.
There's nothing important about the story: typical fairy-tale story of Rumpelstiltskin, without any importance.
I expected something like that but that's nothing I could complain about.
I'm actually complaining about the lazy story writers who had an entire background story; their only business was to get many jokes and parodies inside but they didn't get it anyway.
This crap is except the great appearance of Helge Schneider a total waste of time and money.(if you don't like him then remove 2 points of my evaluation) If you like to save your money and get bad jokes then watch the crap that's broad casted every Friday evening on SAT1 or RTL for free.
I'm sure you will recognize some "laugthers" I saw last night in cinema..
I liked it.
Yes, this movie IS nonsense.
I saw it yesterday.
But I have to say that I don't know many movies which made me smile like that.
I found it much funnier than the first one, although the plot was not very meaningful.
There are MANY well-known German celebrities who make a short appearance (Udo Lindenberg, Oliver Pocher, Dirk Bielefeldt, or, having already appeared in the first movie, Christian Tramitz, Atze Schröder, Helge Schneider, and Heinz Hoenig), but I don't think that they overload it, they are just sidekicks to everything that German audience is interested in ;)) All I had wished had been some more scenes for Heinz Hoenig, who is a really great actor ;)In fact, I really recommend this movie if you just want to have some nice and harmless fun and want to feel better after watching.
The most unnecessary piece of utter celluloid crap you'll ever see!.
WARNING!
Don't even consider watching this film in any form.
It's not even worth downloading from the internet.
Every bit of porn has more substance than this wasted piece of celluloid.
The so-called filmmakers apparently have absolutely no idea how to make a film.
They couldn't tell a good joke to save their lives.
It's an insult to any human being.
If you're looking for a fun-filled movie - go look somewhere else.Let's hope this Mr. Unterwaldt (the "Jr." being a good indication for his obvious inexperience and intellectual infancy) dies a slow/painful death and NEVER makes a film again.In fact, it's even a waste of time to WRITE ANYTHING about this crap, that's why I'll stop right now and rather watch a good film..
Silly Sally Solly Lolly Molly Knolly Olli Scholli Dolly Holly.
So I do like the part 2 of "7 dwarfs/Zwerge" better than part 1 cos it is more "silly" and without any sense.We also do need these kind of movies.
It's hot.Nina Hagen as the bad witch seems like she took some acting-lessons from "Katharina Thalbach" ("Die Blechtrommel").
I studied Theatres, Movies, Cinemas, Plays, Discotheques and Partys for ages in Berlin, so I know what I'm talking about.Cosma Shiva Hagen plays like an Brainless Barbie.
I seen this acting in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, when I was on the set of the "Momo"-Theatre.
There was an brainless Barbie, too.I think, i will watch every part of this Nonsense but mainly because of Nina Hagen it's always funny how she acts or what clothes she wears what face she painted.Check it out, if your bored, it's Entertaining..
Not the best - not a worthy sucessor to the pretty good first part.
Despite what a lot of other people thought about the first movie, I really liked it.
How to sum it up in one word?: This movie is (and here comes the word): CRAP!But let's look at it part by part: Here is the plot: Finally the old queen has been removed from her castle, but her successor: Snow white has problems of another sort: The Court-Jester, Father of her son, has gone astray, as the super, Spliss, goes to the extreme, to battle his gray hair and sells the royal offspring for some blond and full hair.
In her desperation Snow white seeks the help of Bubi (Otto Walkees),who must first find his other six dwarf companions and then try to find the royal offspring or at least try to find the name of Rumpelstiltskin.The whole plot seems to have been written on a weekend, where the writers were very drunk but were just under pressure from the studio to write the screenplay.
Yes, there are some good jokes.
Even for fans of the first part, or for fans of any of the other actors, it's really not worth buying the the DVD.
Believe me.
The only thing, that at least kind of saves the movie from complete oblivion, are the performances of some of the actors.
That's why I gave the move 3/10.
Sadly, the script is so bad that none of the actors or all of them combined can make up for the bad story.For example, at one point, they even cross over in our reality, and sadly..
they don't do anything funny while being here.
Still, a lot of great actors in this movie: Otto Waalkes, Ralf Schmitz, Martin Schneider, Nina Hagen, Cosma Shiva Hagen, (Especially funny): Rüdiger Hoffmann as the mirror, Helge Schneider and many more but sadly all these comedians aren't able to bring this really bad script to life.
Maybe it is a treat for some hardcore fans but for regular movie goers or by now DVD Renters or buyers it's not worth the money.
I even regret renting the movie..
Poor - poor German comedy.
I guess I have still enough brain left to NOT find this movie funny.
I guess I have still enough brain left to NOT find this movie funny.
-Great comedians - but a very poor movie!
-Great comedians - but a very poor movie!
The "best" performance still did NINA HAGEN TRIVIA: Did you realize that it the "real world" scenes (in Hamburg) the cars are almost ONLY new BMWs ??.
The "best" performance still did NINA HAGEN TRIVIA: Did you realize that it the "real world" scenes (in Hamburg) the cars are almost ONLY new BMWs ??.
It's Meant to be Ridiculous.
I watched this film with friends and we all enjoyed it.
I am wondering if the negative comments have at all to do with an English translation version - I have only seen it in German.
I would suppose that the people who hate this film would also not understand or enjoy vaudeville or other, absurd comedy like Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin, etc.
Monty Python?
Doubtful.
It seems that contemporary comedy has to be slick and profane and people have simply forgotten how to laugh at people being purposely silly.
Although they were a bit political and off-color, I think the Not Ready For Primetime Players (remember them?
They were the group generally considered wildly talented who started Saturday Night Live)were all pretty silly - and hilarious.
DO NOT ignore this film on the not-at-all-objective reviews given here..
An Awesomely funny and enjoyable comedy with Nina Hagen and her daughter Cosma.
This is a German comedic twist on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in German language.
There are a myriad of famous German actors cast as Dwarfs and support characters as well as an awesome portrayal of the evil queen superbly played by Nina Hagen in contrast to her beautiful and talented real-life daughter Cosma Shiva Hagen who plays Snow White.
There are opportunities for Cosma to show that she has much of her mother's exceptional talent in singing and theatrics.
It is a delightfully lighthearted and enjoyable fable brought to life by exceptional actors.
If you like the storyline or Nina Hagen and you speak German you will enjoy this rendition..
Dwarfs go to town.
"7 Zwerge" was a massive success in terms of box office here in Germany, so no surprise the second movie came out 2 years later.
It's once again 90 minutes long.
The center of it is Otto Waalkes once again and he brought basically the entire comedy elite from Germany in here.
The director is Sven Unterwaldt again and he wrote the script with Waalkes and Bernd Eilert, who already worked with Otto back in the 70s.
Not too long ago, a third entirely-animated movie came out, but it did not come even close to the commercial success of the first two.
the second did not make as much money as the first, only about half, but still a whole lot, so it was the no°7 in box office 2006 in Germany.The dwarfs are played by the same actors as in the first film, with one exception.
Wöhler played Majowski's part.
Nina Hagen plays the main antagonist again and her daughter Cosma Shiva is also back to reprise her role.
Many of the actors, also in smaller roles, like Hoffmann return here and they also got some new names, including Lindenber, Stein, Barth, Pocher (not a great fan of these four, especially the last two) and Olli Dittrich ("Dittsche") as Pinocchio in a hilarious performance.
But I'm a great fan of him anyway.
The cast is top-notch and as good as it gets for a German comedy movie.
Katy Karrenbauer, Jürgen Tarrach and Karoline Schuch are also in this films, all 3 more dramatic actors really.
Just like the first, this movie has references about all kinds of fairy tales, not only about Snow White.
I mentioned Pinocchio before, but there is also Rumpelstiltskin and Hansel&Gretel.
The film's title is obviously a reference to James Bond.
The (00)7 fits also nicely in terms of the amount of dwarfs, but I don't know if they thought about that.One of my favorite scenes was Maddin Schneider's turn as a fireman, obviously the perfect profession for someone with so quick reactions like his.
What I did not like, however, was that they somehow gave every comedian his moment to shine.
I like Ralf Schmitz, but his pantomime number felt almost more out of a comedy program than out of this movie.
Nina Hagen did not do really much for me either and I have to say I lost a bit interest here as the film went on.
The first half was possibly better than the second.
The "Pet Shop Boys" cover at the end was nice though.
All in all, I would say this film is slightly inferior to the first, both pretty decent movies though and worth a watch..
Sophomore jinx be damned!.
The Zwerge are back!
But, sophomore jinx be damned!, they left all their good bits in the first movie.
The comic balloon has a leak, and completely pops when the dwarfs take a side trip to the real world (ala "Les visiteurs").
This opportunity to take some fairytale shots at the modern world is completely lost.
Flat.
A waste.
The dwarfs move about modern Berlin unnoticed, as though, having broken the fourth wall, they no longer have a point.
And neither does this movie.The only good part was, again, Nina Hagen.
Sadly her part is greatly reduced - less GaGa and more what Tim Burton's Mrs. Lovett should have been.
Just fantasy-casting here, but can you imagine what "Sweeney Todd" would have been like if a professional singer/actress had been cast?!
Someone with a long reputation of dark, theatrical performance?!
(sigh) but one can only dream now...