interstellar war between humans and reptilian dracs. Two opposing pilots accidents on a desolate planet and need to pull together against the ravages of nature and against vicious slave traders. From enmity is friendship. And dies as the hermaphroditic lizard creatures with the birth of his offspring, man becomes the father figure for a small Drac.
impressive already, like Wolfgang Petersen, U.S. producers of the film took time out of his hand. The first stage failed and the budget already covered, Petersen took it into the (ahem) board, so that at least an acceptable film made of it. The German asked time for a new beginning, the action moved first in the Bavaria Studios and had the German Pope backdrop Rudolf Zehetbauer create the alien planet. New masks and creatures were from the manufacturing of Chris Walas is also included. The camera shots are tricked Lanzarote with a few backgrounds, in the minimalist approach, however, we find ourselves again in Zehetbauer paper mache fairy tale kingdom, which probably originated in part from the still Neverending Story .
The result is so despite the dream factory Penunze and the Hollywood star power a largely German SF film. Denis Quaid and thus the prologue spoken in the German version of Volkslied. Is it a German Give voice? The underlying story by Barry Longyear dates from 1979, but it could also somehow been hijacked in the Fifties. The tricks, the buildings, the figures already are. But still yet to see energy weapons such as beam weapons and exotic technology such exotic technology. Banal: people still use projectile weapons from the gun shop next door. We die-hard cynics
, then not yet 20 years old, but with thicker pants, made us thoroughly fun of this simple story that grew literally the sentimentality out of his ears. A template as Hell in the ( Hell in the Pacific on DVD) was a pretty hard Tour with a bad end, but the variation in Enemy Mine is basically just calculated, softened and clueless in front in terms of real emotions, as already The Neverending Story . Mediocre charming Effektdingsbums dissolved in the rubber come into the years-Creature, cardboard and model times, trying honestly to make the SF genre for a big, sentimental audience tuned usable. Maybe even a movie for girls. Brrr. So you won even then little more than a flower pot, even if the advertising drum called a short time so loud that everything else in 1985 is simply no longer heard.
And it is all too much too fast. Even before Denis Quaid has grown a veritable Robinson Crusoe beard, the two crashed already understand the language of the other inside out and can thus see that the messages of their culture are universal and thus hostility Quark. Who would have thought, so middle of the Cold War? The rest is predictable, clumsy and just as tidy as the sterile space station of the people. Only at the showdown are allowed Petersen unexpected, tiny hint of Splatter (FSK today: 16).
And yet, at the age of the audience is mild, and beyond all the obvious weaknesses of taking a history with the reduced again. Okay, in some places you have to fast forward in order to endure anything, but the mood swings of the two enemies / friends, the dignity of the reptile and his constant Louis Gossett smile, his death scene ("You have to open me!"), Quaid's reunification with the children and of course the monumental final scene - you can be on it, and is stirred in a naive way. Today's event products similar provenance can achieve this as no longer under their perfectionist effect surface.
Yes, in Enemy Mine is somewhere but a beautiful film. We see him in the friendly smiles of the reptile.
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