Berlin, Berlin สาวหนีรัก (2020) [ บรรยายไทย ]

Netflix revives another sort-of-long-gone TV series with Berlin, Berlin: Lolle on the Run, which catches up with the characters from hit German sitcom Berlin, Berlin 15 years after the final episode aired. The series starred Felicitas Woll as Lolle Holzmann, a serially unlucky-in-love comic book artist stumbling through one romantic mishap after another as a young twentysomething in Berlin. Does the film exist merely to stoke nostalgia for fans, or will it draw in a new legion of Lolle devotees?

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The Gist: In voiceover, Lolle (Woll) says she ultimately settled on her plan B. It’s not going well: she’s in handcuffs in front of a judge, mascara running, her wedding dress rumpled. Yes, wedding dress. Jump back a few hours to the altar, where she’s about to exchange vows with her sweet, mildly milquetoast buddy Hart (Matthias Klimsa). They have a lovely flat and their own animation studio and plans to have a baby and it’s all very safe. But. A motorcycle roars. Sven (Jan Sosniok) arrives to bust up the nuptials, and yes, he’s her cousin but she was very much in love with him and his more adventurous vibes. So she melts down and drives off hysterically, racking up moving violations, including running over a cop, and we’re back to the courtroom, where she’s sentenced to community service.

Her first gig is plunging toilets in a school, where she meets fellow adult delinquent Dana (Janina Uhse), who expeditiously steals Lolle’s tablet computer. She desperately needs to get it back; a Hollywood studio is about to pay her a pile of money for the studio and her character Miracle Bunny, who’s big enough to be featured on men’s boxer shorts, a detail we learn soon enough, in a truly awful scene that sort of brings to mind a truly horrific scene from Bad Lieutenant. That scene is among a series of madcap flapdoodling nonsense that contrives to put Lolle and Dana in the woods without cell phones, wearing only towels and running from meth cookers, a nudist hippie cult, a scummy cop and Hart and Sven and maybe a large bear.

Lolle is 38 now. Is she officially TOTS — too old for this shit? Or is this just the rupturing of her life’s status-quo that she needs? Will she and Dana turn their bickering into bonding? Will she ever choose Hart and Sven? Will the plot contort itself in order to reintroduce old-favorite Berlin, Berlin supporting characters out of sheer obligation? Nein spoilerschlitzen!

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: A random selection of good TV series that became movies years later, in order from worst to best: Sex and the City, The Crocodile Hunter, Land of the Lost, Absolutely Fabulous, Dora the Explorer, Breaking Bad, Police Squad!, Shaun the Sheep, Mission: Impossible.