In what used to be Yugoslavia, where this film was made and first released, there are no film ratings. If there were any, this film would carry at least an "R" rating.
From scenes implying that a teen girl has just finished masturbating and her mom entering the room and judging by the smell of the vibrator, which she helpfully wiped off that her daughter needs to see a gynecologist, all the way to a father looking at his own daughter as a sex object failing to recognize her, this film is one sick scene after another. For those who are not up-to-date on this film, "We Are Not Angels" is promoted as a comedy for the whole family.
A few indiscriminate attempts at humor involve discussions of beating someone to a bloody pulp, with an actual image of the scene and bloody pulp splattering everywhere, and having sex with a dead corpse "before it cools down".
A few quick cuts and overacting seem like an attempt at fast paced French style comedy, but this film fails there too. There are far too many product placement shots to allow for editing that would serve whatever is left of the "story" in this film.
I would have a hard time recommending this film even as a bad film to learn from. Dialogues and themes in them are too offending and badly executed to allow for any criticism. Actors barely get a chance to perform while shouting all the time, and only lack of any domestic comedies at all in Yugoslavia has made this film popular and a "success" there.
If there was a zero rating, I'd give it to this film as it would be more fair towards other not-too-good films.
From scenes implying that a teen girl has just finished masturbating and her mom entering the room and judging by the smell of the vibrator, which she helpfully wiped off that her daughter needs to see a gynecologist, all the way to a father looking at his own daughter as a sex object failing to recognize her, this film is one sick scene after another. For those who are not up-to-date on this film, "We Are Not Angels" is promoted as a comedy for the whole family.
A few indiscriminate attempts at humor involve discussions of beating someone to a bloody pulp, with an actual image of the scene and bloody pulp splattering everywhere, and having sex with a dead corpse "before it cools down".
A few quick cuts and overacting seem like an attempt at fast paced French style comedy, but this film fails there too. There are far too many product placement shots to allow for editing that would serve whatever is left of the "story" in this film.
I would have a hard time recommending this film even as a bad film to learn from. Dialogues and themes in them are too offending and badly executed to allow for any criticism. Actors barely get a chance to perform while shouting all the time, and only lack of any domestic comedies at all in Yugoslavia has made this film popular and a "success" there.
If there was a zero rating, I'd give it to this film as it would be more fair towards other not-too-good films.