“The canoe of the Manitu” film criticism: All Woke in the Wild West

Does that fit him “The Manitu's shoe” still? To find out that, Michael Bully Herbig sends a sequel to a sequence for almost a quarter of a century after his success, but for security it changes the title and from the country into the water. (Of course you also get into a canoe with your feet, but which shoe size does that correspond?).

Blood brothers under the gallows and in the canoe

In any case, not much has changed in the Wild West. The two blood brothers Abahachi (Herbig) and Ranger (Christian Tramitz) are still riding from one adventure to the next – arguing like an old couple and it can happen that they find themselves with a loop around their neck under a gallows. Fortunately, as an emergency, there is the well -known Greek Dimitri (Rick Kavanian), who has now even bought a new specialist named Mary (Jasmin Schwier). When it comes to finding the title -giving watercraft, a number of traps have to be overcome, which Indiana Jones wouldn't have done better.

A real star-soil weight returns

Much more is not to be said about the content anyway. At most a little surprise was anticipated, but after a look into the occupation list, it is no longer: Sky du Mont stops by in his parade role as Santa Maria, although he is actually very convincing in a mud pit (but a convincing reason for survival is also delivered). By far the funniest figure is undoubtedly Merlin Sandmeyer, who plays an extras to complete a gang of criminals.

Strictly above the belt line

A few years ago, Bully said in a radio interview that the turn of comedies was becoming increasingly difficult because “the comedy police” was so strict. Therefore, he would no longer do “the shoe of the Manitu” as it was then. So how different has “the canoe of the manitu”? In fact, the humor is now trying to stay completely above the belt line and the pubescent jokes fall away. The highest – no, deep – the feelings are daring emptying noises in the night dark behind the campfire. Not that you would look after more of it, but the will, at least somewhere, would not have hurt. (The new “naked cannon” dared to do much more.)

The will for Wokeness

Instead, everything woke is in the Wild West: Abahachi has to constantly explain to the ignorant people that “Indians” are no longer said and has to deal with identity problems in terms of their origin. When his Apache tribe appears, it is undoubtedly an authentic tribal member who also talk to each other in their real language. This time you will vain your ears for names like cunning amazement or false hare.

The figure of the Winnetouch does not fall away and Bully plays the gays as usual, but the Abahachi brother is upgraded in other ways by turning into a real superhero with whip, who receives praise and recognition from all sides. Jessica Schwarz shows herself as a gang leader who immediately senses discrimination if someone wants to know whether there is still soup. And in the song “Because we are so great” by Stefan Raab – at the same time the film's leadsingle – Bully and Tramitz vegan food, oat milk and e -bikes.

Cheerful language confusion

Here there is a multi -part that “the” The Canoe of the Manitu “actually makes primarily a comedy of language confusion. Right from the start, it turns out that Abahachi and Ranger apparently attended a yodel school and now agree in the Holladrio dialect, but the white blood brother also has various animal voices or communicates in a children's language. The Greek is constantly noticeable with annoying wording, a bandit speaks absolutely incomprehensible, even if it does not have a cloth in front of his mouth, another gang member can suddenly be heard in an Asian language to avoid a arrest and an auxiliary forced can make Saxon, which acts as a nice supplement to the Bavarian of the two main characters.

Government with predicate “worth seeing”

So the humor has definitely changed here. At the same time, however, you feel that the glance was rather inserted, because Bully and his creative partners are trying to not touch or make themselves unpopular, but to deliver exactly what an audience in their opinion wants to hear and see today. However, some of the abuse are not up to date, but rather old -fashioned. After all, the film even manages to preserve the predicate “worth seeing” (but the predecessor in 2001 has already succeeded).

It remains to be seen whether there will soon be an ExtralAres canoe. But such an enlargement is actually not necessary, because the film is already running in the IMAX format-as the first German production that is given this honor. And in the earliest 25 years at the earliest we may look forward to “The Gnu of the Manitu”.

3 out of 5 ouzo glasses from the cuckoo clock on the account of the Greek