Cartoonist Brösel has fallen on hard times: Japanese manga comics are flooding the market, his publisher doesn't want to publish his newest "Werner"-comic (number 13) and so he goes on vacation to Corsica. There, while trying to impress some girls on the beach, he hits his head in shallow water and is pronounced dead. Though his body lies in the morgue, his spirit is still alive, watching how his greedy publisher tries to profit from his demise by illegally publishing his final work. In the meantime, Brösels friends and brother Andi, try to retrieve Brösels body from the morgue.
The 5th and presumably final "Werner"-film goes back to the roots of the original "Werner – Beinhart"-movie, mixing real-life action with animations, generally through the real characters reminiscing about Werner / Brösels past through animated clips, some new, some culled from previous movies. Many fans had complained about the acting-parts of the original and those fans, who were still willing to go to the cinema, will complain about it again. Brösel and his consort aren't actors and people came to see Werner, the animated figure, not the real-life Brösel.
As to the animated segments, they are mostly computer animated these days, giving it a clean, polished look that simply lacks the soul of the hand-painted animation of the past. Of course, it's really a matter of taste (and if you've been born after "Werner" was first published, non-CGI animation might even be too old-fashioned for you), but that rough, Ralph Bakshi-compatible animation is really missed. As to the humour, that hasn't changed much since the glory days, making it all very dated. Yes, there is as much fecal humour as expected, but with seen all this defecation and s**t-exploding many, many times before, be it in past Werner films or in similar products like "The Little Bastard" ("Das Kleine Arschloch").
"Werner – Eiskalt" is as worn-out, dated and anachronistic as the "Werner"-comics of recent years – we could say, obsolete-tism has never been so obvious.
3 points from 10 and the sincere wish, that Brösel can finally rest on his laurels and calls it a day.
The 5th and presumably final "Werner"-film goes back to the roots of the original "Werner – Beinhart"-movie, mixing real-life action with animations, generally through the real characters reminiscing about Werner / Brösels past through animated clips, some new, some culled from previous movies. Many fans had complained about the acting-parts of the original and those fans, who were still willing to go to the cinema, will complain about it again. Brösel and his consort aren't actors and people came to see Werner, the animated figure, not the real-life Brösel.
As to the animated segments, they are mostly computer animated these days, giving it a clean, polished look that simply lacks the soul of the hand-painted animation of the past. Of course, it's really a matter of taste (and if you've been born after "Werner" was first published, non-CGI animation might even be too old-fashioned for you), but that rough, Ralph Bakshi-compatible animation is really missed. As to the humour, that hasn't changed much since the glory days, making it all very dated. Yes, there is as much fecal humour as expected, but with seen all this defecation and s**t-exploding many, many times before, be it in past Werner films or in similar products like "The Little Bastard" ("Das Kleine Arschloch").
"Werner – Eiskalt" is as worn-out, dated and anachronistic as the "Werner"-comics of recent years – we could say, obsolete-tism has never been so obvious.
3 points from 10 and the sincere wish, that Brösel can finally rest on his laurels and calls it a day.