Reaction To Funny German Western Parody (Der Schuh des Manitu)

[@Xcelsior86]

"Ich bin mit der Gesamtsituation unzufrieden."

[@IgorRockt]

Den Spruch benutze ich mehrmals die Woche in den letzten Jahren! 😁

[@voyance4elle]

Ist bis heute einer meiner Standardsätze xD Ich war so ein Fan als Teenager!

[@Enwaiyre]

"Das nennt man Reiten was du da machst?"😄

[@DoloresLehmann]

Mein Mann hat den als T-Shirt.

[@Tredecimus]

Who wouldn’t?

[@44WarmocK77]

Santa Maria:"You make coffee." Goon: *notices a howl in the distance and squints* "... what's that?!" Santa Maria: "A caffeinated hot beverage." So stupid but I just love it 🤣

[@WesY2K]

That gag was so NAKED GUN, I loved it.

[@rawfish_8.3]

Reminiscent of Leslie Nielsen in the ZuckerAbrahamsZucker movies

[@xwormwood]

@@rawfish_8.3 Who took it from the Marx Brothers...

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@rawfish_8.3 Airplane...

[@FlubberFrosch]

You forgot the wolf’s howl before the ‘What’s that?’. Hence the question.

[@Attirbful]

„Langsam Jacqueline, sonst musst Du wieder kotzen!“

[@voyance4elle]

😂

[@adrianaheiler9794]

Es ist sooo schade, dass der Bullyparade Sketch 'Pferdekotze' nicht mehr online zu finden ist. Das war einer der ersten Sketche die ich damals sah und seitdem war ich fan. Meine Eltern fragten mich am nächsten Morgen worüber ich so laut lachen musste.

[@Justforvisit]

@@adrianaheiler9794 Was mir seither nie wieder aus dem Kopf gegangen ist: Gus-Tav, Gus-Gus, Tav....vor allem weil sie sich dabei selbst bepisst haben vor Lachen xD

[@adrianaheiler9794]

@Justforvisit ich glaub Gus-tav ist auf der DVD compilation drauf. Einer meiner Freunde fängt immer mal wieder aus dem Nichts an mit 'Gus-tav, gus-gus-tav' und wir anderen müssen immer mitmachen. Ein weiterer live-clip der mich immer zum Lachen bringt weil sie es einfach nicht auf die Reihe kriegen ist der mit Sasha als Gast 'im Planwagen vor mir fährt ein junges Mädchen'

[@markbogendorfer5757]

​@@adrianaheiler9794 Ja, total genial!!! Als deutsches Fernseh noch Spaß machte 😂❤ und sich nicht in ekligen und langweiligen Formaten ständig angeschrien und vor Gericht gezerrt wurde....... 😢

[@dirkczaja7227]

They were able to make a movie that consists 100% of gags only but still tells a consistent story. Masterpiece

[@omen8149]

Till this day "Der Schuh des Manitu" is still the most successful german movie in german cinemas with around 11,7 million visitors. Second place is, you guessed it, "(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1" with 9,1 million visitors. Every german knows these movies, even if they don't like them.

[@lutzlupe2966]

This wasn't the "most successful German movie", I think it's still DIE GROSSE LIEBE (1942), which had 27 million viewers by the end of the war.

[@zumogerstubchen2340]

"Das Boot" had more than 28 mio. people who saw the movie.

[@DangerDulli]

Thats a real shame. No wonder german movies are considered bad

[@kaisattelberg5548]

@@zumogerstubchen2340 "Der Film Das Boot [von 1981] zählt mit 5,8 Millionen Zuschauern in Deutschland zu den zehn erfolgreichsten deutschen Filmen." vs "60 Prozent der Fernsehzuschauer schalteten bei 'Das Boot' [dreiteilige Fernsehreihe von 1985] ein, die dritte und letzte Folge am 4. März sahen 23,9 Millionen." - Same name, but the movie was seen by far less people in Germany in cinemas upon its release, which is the metric compared in the above comment.

[@martinschulz326]

Well...Otto der Film has more, if you count BRD and GDR.

[@ayla6854]

About the Superperforator. Santa Maria (guy in the suit) and his goons have captured the good guys and plan to kill them. Santa asks them if they have a last wish. Winnetouch goes: "Yes, the song from the Superperforator-Ad". And they just break out dancing. One of the funniest scenes in the whole movie.😂

[@RustyDust101]

Which is obviously an ad for a gun called the Superperforator. 😄

[@No5f3r4tu]

@@RustyDust101 its an imaginary ammo brand. they sing "put it in the magazine"

[@luxaartozial660]

​@@No5f3r4tu I also suspect that we really see this bullet in the movie. During the training session Abahachi does with Winnetouch, the latter uses a tiny gun which blows up the whole wooden target. Considering he's also the one who wished for this song, I can imagine that this really is the Superperforator

[@No5f3r4tu]

@@luxaartozial660 never thought about this but yeah that sounds plausible. If he likes the song so much he is probably buying them aswell. OMG over 20years and this movie keeps on giving.

[@ayla6854]

@@luxaartozial660 ...I never thought of that before! It makes so much sense though!

[@peerke7392]

My two favorite quotes: 1. Schau schau, Shoshonen! 2. "Ich sollte dich zu meiner Frau nehmen." - "Was soll ich denn bei deiner Frau?" 😂😂😂

[@MusikCassette]

"Sie haben den Klappstuhl ausgegraben"

[@Praesi11]

Mine is "Wollts an Prosecco?"

[@alekko_11]

Wo die Schoschonen schön wohnen.

[@enoiladoe]

The dialog before the song: "do you have any last wishes?" "yeah, the song from the super perforator ad!" It's catchy because it's advertisement 😂 Edit: changed the spelling. Never trust autocorrect.

[@m.h.6470]

It's "perforator" (German "Locher") - a device used to make holes into paper to put them into a binder/folder. It is funny, because the song calls a gun like this, which also makes holes.

[@DoloresLehmann]

This is legitimatley one of the best movie gags of all time!

[@Justforvisit]

@@m.h.6470 Knowing Bully, I bet the original script intended "Penetrator" instead but I guess that would have skyrocketed the age rating from a modest 0 / 6 to 18+ 😅

[@robertheinrich2994]

actually, search for Mr. Clean 1958. it is a real advertisement, but old. Meister Proper.

[@tillposer]

5:10 The running gag here is that the Big Bad is running his gang like a kindergarten or grade school teacher steers their class, firmly but kindly... No screaming or histrionics from him. Note how the scene is a carbon copy from scenes of Italo Westerns like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" ore "Once Upon a Time in the West"...

[@Rainbow_Pirate]

There's a scene where they ask him to bring back a present for them and they phrase it like a German chocolate ad ("kinderschokolade"): something sweet, something to play with, etc. To which, after a short dramatic stare-down, he replies: "Better eat an apple instead."

[@marcgyver677]

"No screaming or histrionics from him." Not gonna lie, I had to look up the word "histrionics" - never seen or heard this in my life...

[@LordChAoS667]

@@marcgyver677 Did the same, glad I learned that word today.

[@SandraOrtmann1976]

This film is also paroding other German classic Western movies, based on the Karl May novels. "Winnetouch" is a parody on "Winnetou", "Ranger" on "Old Shatterhand" (who is meant to be Karl May himself). Quite interesting, methinks.

[@MiaMerkur]

​@@Rainbow_Pirate Überraschungseier sind in USA verboten.

[@WesY2K]

Actually, after 24 years, next year a sequel will come out called "Das Kanu Des Manitu".

[@demenion3521]

great news!

[@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut]

​@@demenion3521For real?

[@demenion3521]

@@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut i literally didn't know and just checked

[@nisvetaninalang]

😮 really?! Ohhh !

[@voyance4elle]

what???? I didn't know!

[@helloweener2007]

The German writer Karl May wrote several adventure books about the wild west in the US and also about the Middle East. Some of his books were made into movies in the 1960's. Main character of several books are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. May is writing books from the perspective of his alter ego Old Shatterhand. This went so far that many people actually believed that he really was Old Shatterhand, what is not true. But he was a really popular writer, so most Germans know his books or at least the main ones from the movies. "Der Schuh das Manitu" is a parody on these movies from the 60's and Winnetouch and Ranger are representing Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in this movie. And they used real native Americans in the movie. There weren't any in the 1960's movies I think.

[@erhardhauth1487]

It should also be mentioned that the movies in the 1960 where shot in Yugoslavia at the time!

[@HDreamer]

Also important that afaik Karl May never set a foot into the US, so it's all inspired from stuff he heard from other people.

[@helloweener2007]

@@HDreamer Yes and no. He wrote it without being in the US. True. But he traveled to the USA in 1908 at the age of 66 and published Winnetou IV.

[@KaitoKiara]

Der Schuh des Manitu was shot in Spain. Bully wanted to do a parody of the Karl May movies and at the same time a parody of some of the iconic western movies from Sergio Leone. As for the Native Americans, the chief Listiger Lurch is an actor, who was born in India and now lives in Germany.

[@FlubberFrosch]

In ‘Der Schuh des Manitu’, only the chief’s two companions are real Native Americans, and the chief is Indian. The rest are Spanish.

[@samster_fr]

For anyone interested Tried my best to translate the trailer :) Text on screen: "The myth is alive" "The legend is coming back" Narrator: "In a time where blood brotherhood wasn't just a word, there was an adventure that would change history forever" "Indians!" "Hello!" "You're making coffee" * Howling in the background * "What's that?" "A caffeinated hot drink" "Abahachi, my brother!" "Dark clouds are rising over the land where the shoshones are living" "Where is my gold" "Don't interrupt him, you asshole" * Complaining * "Always just arrows and shooting and it's so loud" Narrator: "A movie about big feelings" "The new movie made by Michael "Bully" Herbig" * In a bunny costume * "Should I try to distract them again?" Narrator: "Manitous Shoe" * Jumping on horse * In pain "My brother" Narrator "Spring 2001 only in cinema" I think almost everyone in Germany has seen this movie or heard of it. Michael Bully Herbig is a great comedian and a lot of people love his work. While Traumschiff Surprise is a parody of Star Wars/Star Trek, Der Schuh des Manitu is a parody of the Winnetou movies which are based on the books by Karl May, who are also very popular in Germany, I'm not sure how popular they are elsewhere since they are german

[@Hiawatha28]

Traumschiff Surprise= Raumschiff Enterprise (Starship Enterprise)

[@zakdan2254]

"Die Schoschonen haben den Klappstuhl ausgegraben!"

[@mabus4910]

Some details that I see not mentioned in the comments yet: - The characters in the film speak with a Bavarian accent to translate the “South American accent”. - The film is above all a parody of the old German Winnetou westerns based on the novels by Karl May. - Pierre Brice, who played the role of Winnetou in the original films, disagreed with this movie and publicly stated to Bully that he had no respect for the original films. - The films are sometimes criticized for their stereotypical portrayal of gay men. The same is true for Traumschiff surprise and other work of Bully.

[@voyance4elle]

Thank you :) Most valuable comment!!!

[@robertheinrich2994]

the films are critizised for their gay-stereotypes. but the only ones that matter are gay people, and they usually loved it.

[@mariotomazzoni6523]

Framing Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as gay couple is a joke as old as the Winnetou books and movies. Bully Herbig didn't do it as first, but he put it up to eleven.

[@FlubberFrosch]

“You must be Ranger, the man with the slang of the Southern states.” - Bartender

[@FlubberFrosch]

@@robertheinrich2994 And the film doesn’t even say he’s gay, although it’s clearly implied. Winnetouch as a swishy/effeminate Native American is essentially a parody of the toxic masculinity of the old Winnetou films.

[@claudioleuch435]

„So jetzt geht nochmal Jeder aufs Klo und dann reiten wir los!“

[@MedEwok]

Standardsatz in vielen deutschen Familien bevor man irgendwohin aufbricht.

[@GODofTHUNDER1101]

I saw this movie in a cinema and I pissed myself in laughter. One of the things that makes this movie so hilarious is the fact, that the actor who plays the character of Santa Maria (the tall greyhaired guy in black clothes and the black hat), Sky du Mont, used to be booked in boring german crime shows like "Derrick", "Der Alte" and so on, playing serious and honestly blend characters with absolutely no humour in it. And here he kind of plays with his image of the serious actor and delivers some great one-liners like "So, jetzt geht nochmal jeder aufs Klo und dann reiten wir los!" which means something like "Right... now everyone goes to the loo and then we'll be riding off!"

[@Enwaiyre]

I watched it several times since then and still its funny af😃

[@Tredecimus]

Santa is the best bit of the movie. When he drowns in the mud at the end he only complains: Das krieg ich doch nie wieder raus! I’ll never get these stains off!

[@johgu92]

He was also in Eyes wide Shut, the last movie of Stanley Kubrick.

[@zoeschmitt1624]

My family and I quote the Klo thing almost every time we leave somewhere (and other lines from this movie and Traumschiff in general). Very iconic and quotable movies

[@bjulalula9537]

Wir auch 😂​@@zoeschmitt1624

[@B-2-Z]

"Der Schuh des Manitu" is the actual classic. There hadn't been a movie this funny and well done in a long time in germany. Unfortunately it doesn't translate well to english. The use of dialects and puns for example. But this was a big hit. Everyone went to see it. "Traumschiff Surprise" came later and sort of benefited from the success of "Der Schuh des Manitu". More Cameos, more silly characters from Michael Bully Herbigs TV show called "Die Bullyparade". That show was basically lots of sketches, most of them very silly, but also quite original. Michael Bully Herbig, Rick Kavanian and Christian Tramitz invented unique and fresh characters that grew over time. The TV Show and both movies - all of it kind of builds on the silly universe Michael Bully Herbig and his coworkers created over years.

[@MiaMerkur]

Yes, and unfortunately Sisi was not a real film but animated.

[@k.wonderland2048]

And don't forget about 'der wixxer' produced by others, but at least as funny as 'der Schuh des Manitu'

[@angiekoln5092]

Hello, I was here in Cologne at the Rocky Horror Picture Show and the speaker was Sky Dumont (the villain here). A man in the audience started chanting "ask your local weapon trader for the superperforator" and the audience laughed away. Greetings Angie, who watched the film more than once

[@sven711]

My favorite quotes of the movie: „Schau Schau, Schoschonen“ „Jetzt nimmt sich jeder noch ein Eis, und dann reiten wir los“ ( I use that quite often) „Jetzt aber Raus hier, Jetzt aber Raus hier, Jetzt aber Haus hier..“

[@heteranthera3473]

"Was ist das? - Da macht einer Kaffee." 😂 (I use this one, too, it´s in my head everytime someone says "what is this?")

[@summerday1983]

"Ich nehm dich jetzt zu meiner Frau!" "Was soll ich denn bei deiner Frau?" 😂

[@Zarhunas]

"Was kannst du eigentlich?" "Das ist ein sehr schneller Zug!" "Mora Katanga!" (Krasses Pferd)

[@vonBlankenburgLP]

The film was recorded in Oasys Mini Hollywood in Tabernas, Almería, Spain. It was technically the film set for the 1965 movie For a Few Dollars More, which has later been converted to a theme park, but it's still used as a stage for Old West movies until today. But the landscape is not CGI generated, it's all true. It's just not America, but the Spanish desert.

[@petma656]

Ok, this make sence, thank You

[@ThisIsMego]

The best part is that a whole lot of the old Italo Westerns were filmed in both Italy and Spain. Especially Sergio Leone would use Spain a lot for his movies and only use US landscape when they were absolutely necessary (for example Monument Valley)

[@Attirbful]

It is a parody of the REALLY big Winnetou westerns back from the 1960s (based on Karl May, a German author of the late 19th century, who wrote about Native American and Oriental cultures a lot in the then popular escapist Orientalist mindset - without ever having set foot in said countries, of course). The most hilarious thing in this movie is that the main characters speak with a heavy Bavarian accent, and one speaks with a heavy Greek accent and syntax (or at least with what we believe to be a Greek accent and syntax)… It‘s about like staging a Western with Cockney or Pakistani actors or something like that…

[@voyance4elle]

Yesss!!! Best comment :D

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Hellas! Dimitri (played by Rick, who is part Armenian) fills the role of the stereotypical Mexican, except he's Greek, because why not. Dimitri's donkey is named after a Greek god, Apollo. It's his thirteenth donkey with that name. (As you can guess, he never makes it to Houston.)

[@jkb2016]

6:34 The scene is in the movie. Gangster Santa Maria granted his captives One Last Wish. Winnetouch (hero Abahachi's gay twin brother) wanted to hear the Superperforator jingle.

[@RobertSailing]

In the scene the villain asks: a last wish? and then Winnitouch says: the song from the superperforator comercial

[@richard--s]

And perforator here means the weapon, that is supposed to make holes in everything it shoots, so it's perforating everything. It's the "Super Perforator". That's not a usual name for a "gun", they used it just here in this movie. From the context it's clear what it means. And I don't remember any other songs in that movie. It might be the only song. It was no musical. And this makes it stand out even more, it's just crazy, it doesn't fit, it's like a joke that you would never expect. The dark person with no sense of humor (well, usually when there is such a person in a movie) plays a commercial song as the last whish... And it was very very exaggerated, he didn't just say it, didn't just sing it, he played it with two other people as a perfect live commercial dance performance (from the perspective of the victims) (they made this song for this movie only).

[@rawfish_8.3]

​@@richard--s the "Super Perforator" is actually the bullet, not the gun

[@richard--s]

And the person who asks for this commercial is played as a very naive person who doesn't know what's going on, doesn't know that this might be the last minute of his life, everything is just fun, everything is kindergarden... And the two others beside him are played in this situation like they don't know what to think about that, could that change their inevitable fate? But how? They rather think, OK, that's it, it would be over quickly anyways... So, the two others look rather sceptical while the naive person anjoys it... That's another part of the crazy thing that's going on there ;-) And we as the audience know that this is not the first joke in this movie, it will go on, we just don't know yet how they will survive, but OK, let's enjoy this crazy funny commercial performance... It's a fun movie anyways, no danger, enjoy it.

[@richard--s]

And in other parts of this movie, the two more rational guys often think and say something like "oh no, another crazy idea of this (naive) guy, he constantly brings us into dangerous situations..." And somehow they can escape from these situations, but in that situations they often have crazy conversations like "look what you have done" (maybe when they end up tied to a stake, literally), the response might be something silly and unrelated like this with a big happy smiling face, looking up to the sky: "but it's nice weather anyways" (something like that. I don't know if they really say exactly that in one case, but it's like this). It's a fun movie... Don't think too much about it, just enjoy it... Yes, that's difficult just with subtitles... There should be English / American movies like that...

[@flusendieb6833]

@@richard--s there's another song - "Lebkuchenherz" when Abahachi regains consciousness after having been shot, and it becomes clear that the stale Lebkuchenherz he was carrying around saved his life because the bullet got stuck in it

[@la-go-xy]

Loaded with parody, irony, comedy... on so many levels. Including dialects, quotes, social absurdities... Movie was shot in Europe.

[@jkb2016]

If I recall the DVD-commentary correctly, the film was shot in spain, with some local extras as native americans (with the exception of the two tall chief's right and left hands), none of which spoke any German or English. Many Italian westerns were shot in Spain, as well as Conan, The Barbarian.

[@carstenschmidt2939]

Almeria to be precise

[@Miristzuheiss]

The most at sardegna, all Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies

[@KaitoKiara]

The movie was shot in Spain, in the same location as the Sergio Leone movies.

[@fisch6912]

I remember in the Making Of of this movie the creator said with a straight face: "We gave it a lot of thought translating the story into German and gave them a Bavarian accent because, well.... they're southeners"

[@martinhd3705]

Mert, your reaction videos are pure gold. Plus I like the scottish accent. You are right to think the german subtitles are a shame. My offer: let me know which video you want to react to and I happily will provide you with a good translation.

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

EVERY German knows "Der Schuh des Manitu"! 😅 It's actually a parody specifically on the Winnetou "Germano Western" movies that were filmed entirely nowhere near America and after novels written by a German called Karl May who never ever visited America... (Still totally iconic Westerns in central Europe known by most Germans...)😄

[@richard--s]

Yes, the Winnetou movies were filmed in Croatia (at that time it was a psrt of Yugoslavia). It is not so far from Germany, a bit easier to make it and the scenery is good, different from how Germany usually looks like, more rocks, more mountains, but still manageable. It might look a bit like the mountainous area in the US Midwest, a bit. But I have no idea where "Der Schuh des Manitu" (The shoe of Manitou) was filmed...

[@ileana8360]

was looking for this comment. I still remember Pierre Brice beeing pissed about this parody and to this day I can´t believe how serious he took his role of Winnetou in something we in Germany call "Spaghetti-Western" 😂

[@svenkampen1647]

Karl May did visit america, but only after his books were already out.

[@lynnm6413]

@@ileana8360 I mean, Pierre Briece was the most successful Frenchman in German cinema for decades….of course he‘d tale Bully‘s parody of him and Old Shatterhand‘s bromance personally! Karl May wrote those novels while in prison, so the accuracy, or lack thereof, was never in question!

[@Psi-Storm]

@@ileana8360 The Karl May movies aren't spaghetti- or italowestern. They have clear heros as protagonists, just like the early US western. Italowestern use anti-heros or even villains as protagonists.

[@RolandDeschain19]

Der Schuh des Manitu had 11.7 million viewers in the cinema with a revenue of 65 million Euros, making it the most successful german movie since WWII.

[@simonbrunner3062]

It's pretty safe to say every German born before 1995 has seen this movie. I must have watched it about five times just in cinemas during the year of release alone. I was 13 at the time and thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. I would put it well above "Traumschiff Surprise" in both popularity and (especially) cultural impact. It is very quotable - "Ich bin mit der Gesamtsituation unzufrieden" is one that stuck with me into adulthood. It should be noted that, while there are also nods to classic American and Italo western, it primarily parodies a specific brand of German western from the late 1960s, which was based on western novels written by German author Karl May. Those films, just like the novels they were based on, have always been quite popular in Germany and formed a vital part of German popular culture for multiple generations. There were alomst all centered around two main characters, a young Apache chief and a white guy who ended up becoming friends and even blood brothers with him. The main protagonists of "Der Schuh des Manitu" were very obvious parodies of those characters.

[@desotodavill7740]

Not only before 1995. I would add a few years

[@Eisenbahnpatrouille]

I just want to let you know that your "servus" was perfect. Bravo 👏

[@Enwaiyre]

Infact many Western movies back then were made in Andalusia or parts of Croatia and Yugoslavia. "Der Schuh des Manitu" is a comedic Hommage to these movies and still one of the best german movies ever made. In Germany traditionally its on TV at Silvester or new Year.

[@isaias-b]

Servus! You need to watch the Bully Parade to get an idea of the context ;) Michael Bully Herbig is one of the heads behind the famous show. It is a bit like SNL but also has its very own character and many of the skits they created in the bully parade have been turned into full blown movies. So they have been parodising many different formats inside the bully parade and then they turned those into movies later on as they got a lot of traction. Cheers, mach weiter so

[@hanshaag2224]

I admire your patience in watching such films and reading constantly. The special thing about the film is that Old Shatterhand and Winnetou and his gay brother speak Bavarian, unlike all the other actors. This creates a special humour that is probably lost in the English translation. Best Regards from Bavaria..😊😊

[@lynnm6413]

They should have made it a Texan drawl, easy….lost opportunity in the dubbing!

[@la-go-xy]

And they speak Bavarian, because the characters are from the south -- the actors are from Germany's south, though ;-)

[@Adrian-yn3lb]

I still wish the original actors would have spoken the dubbing. You can find some clips they used to test this on KZbin and the accent is hilarious. They decided to use professional, american dubbers instead.😢

[@lynnm6413]

@@Adrian-yn3lb that will have been amazing..what a missed opportunity!

[@eto6197]

I would see it more as a homage than a parody. Sure it's comedy but there's so much love and praise for old western movies.

[@raccoonja-ronja]

Seven year old me loved this movie so much that I asked my mom for an Abahachi costume for carneval. The creators of this movie are still making movies, most of them based on fan favourite recurring characters in the scetch show "Bullyparade" they created in the late 90ies. The guy playing Abahachi and Winnetouch, Michael "Bully" Herbig is the director, producer and writer of those movies. The most recent was 2017s Bullyparade - Der Film. Bully has also worked on more serious movies and childrens movies. He's even the German voice actor of Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove, Fender from Robots and Woody from Toy Story.

[@max_kirchi_fca]

The movie is even a few months older than me and yet I watched it up and down as a child, just like the original with the Winnetou trilogy and the additional films, even watched the festival in Bad Segeberg several times Already looking forward to next year's sequel "Das Kanu des Manitu"

[@eligerus2622]

Ja ne is kla

[@Apocalypse88175]

"Der Schuh des Manitu" as well as "(T)Raumschiff Surprise" are based on characters on the "Bullyparade", a Sketch Show by and with Michael "Bully" Herbig, aired from 1997 to 2002. 1990's to 2000's was quite a "Peak Season" for german Sketch- and Comedy Shows: Switch (1997 - 2000), Die Wochenshow (1996 - 2002), RTL Samstag Nacht (1993 - 1998), Schmidteinander (1990 - 1994), Switch Reloaded (2007 - 2012) etc.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

The movie is a parody of all the movies based on the Wild West novels by Karl May. Mainly his most famous characters Winnetou (portrayed by Michael "Bully" Herbig as Apahachi and his twin brother Winnetouch) and Old Shatterhand (portrayed by Christian Tramitz as Ranger). The Greek Dimitri played by Rick Kavanian already existed in their TV comedy show Bullyparade as the host in a series of talk show sketches. His trademark is to get idioms wrong and switch the order of words in a sentence.

[@Celisar1]

This movie is by far more popular than Traumschiff surprise. Unfortunately, a lot of the comedy relies on wordplay and how things are being said.. It is almost impossible to transfer that to another language.

[@henrikhaas6980]

It's LEGEND! Yeah! The "Superperforator" is a handgun, like the "peacemaker", and this gentleman with white hair is the salesman of it. So.. he sells more handguns when singing the superperforator-song - advertisement!

[@windsaw151]

The scene where villain Santa Maria first appears is probably the most awesomest villain introduction scene ever created on film! "INDIANER!" - "Servus!" - cue Rage music clip.

[@mariepenot3110]

The movie was partly filmed in the Bavaria film studios. By the way the original „western“ Winnetou was filmed in the now Czech Republic

[@ThorstenBecker441]

Auch in Kroatien bei den Plitwitzer Seen 👍. Sehr schön da, war ich mal.

[@CodeNascher_]

there's a version dubbed into english: "manitou's shoe", but apparently it's not great. not easily translatable without ruining the jokes. but that's the same when english gets dubbed into german

[@lynnm6413]

True…I‘ve stopped watching dubbed English movies in 10th grade when I got fluent enough to recognize the words from the mouthmovements and could tell the German translation is off…I‘m a bit special like that…I cannot stand it!

[@fusssel7178]

@@lynnm6413 don't worry, I watch everything in the original and then with either german or english subs if it isn't in english or german.

Yes and no, some dubbed movies are much more hilarious than the original. Best examples are the Bud Spencer/Terence Hill movies. "Hat dir schon mal jemand mit 'nem Vorschlaghammer 'nen Scheitel gezogen.... Zeitlos"

[@sylverscale]

Yeah - try to translate "wo die Schoschonen schön wohnen" without losing anything. And there's so much of these types of things in the movie, it's just but doable imo.

[@cocoangel1979]

Few of our generation might not have seen that one... 😂😂😂 Indeed it was a parody of the German Winnetou westerns of the 60s with Lex Barker and Pierre Brice. As for the locations... Bully told in a making of that they shot around Almería, Spain, where Sergio Leone shot his 60s Spaghetti Westerns... 😉 I also know that they dubbed the movie in English for the international market, trying to capture the German humour, so maybe you can get your hands on that somehow 😊 Thanks for picking it, esp since its humour abt gay people is seen as rather inappropriate today... 🙈

[@mabus4910]

Also interessting to know that Pierre Brice did not approve of this parody. He said he was "feeling no respect" for his movies.

[@lynnm6413]

I grew up on Sergio Leone Italo Westerns and had a huge crush on Clint Eastwood from the Handfull Dollar Trilogy…. Never mind the fact that I was 13 in 1993, and Clint Eastwood, at that tome was 63! This wouldn’t HAPPEN TODAY WITH THE INTERNET! I was blissfully unaware how he looked in 1993! 🥰🤣😬

[@FlubberFrosch]

Winnetouch as a swishy/effeminate Native American is essentially a parody of the toxic masculinity of the old Winnetou films. Nothing wrong with that.

[@AdrianZeise]

"Slow down, Jaqueline (horse), otherwise you'll puke all over the place again!" "Schön langsam, Jaqueline, sonst kotzt du wieder alles voll!" 🤣🤣

[@rhokesh4391]

"Na, nicht durch die Nase, Schatzerl!" "Des hobts ihr jetz von eurer Raserei!" 😂

[@gregorgrebe]

There was also a musical based on the movie running in Germany. The actor of the "bad guy" Santa is Sky Dumont, a very well known actor who also played a quite big part in "Eyes wide shut".

[@flowerdolphin5648]

I've never even heard of Traumschiff surprise, but one of my school teachers made us watch this one when we were 11 or 12. I remember nothing about this movie except the pink dressed person.

[@sirenlucy932]

I’m German. I freaking love this movie. 😂 And your scottish accent is amazing, I love it too ❤

[@mithrandirlannister2230]

"John hat von meinem Tellerchen gegessen!" "John hat in meinem Bettchen geschlafen!" "John hat sich meinen Kugelschreiber in den Popo gesteckt" - Tja, das ist John!🤣

[@arnodobler1096]

Sky Du Mont starred in "Eyes Wide Shut" by Stanley Kubrick with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

[@tina.InTheSkyWithDiamonds]

I cannot describe how successful and popular this movie was when it came out. I remember I was 12 and we went to see it at the cinema with the whole family. My 17-year-old sister was ON THE FLOOR laughing her head off. Everyone started quoting it and it feels like a big part of German pop culture.

[@Sir_Cactus]

So, any last wishes? - Yes, the song from that superperforator advertisement! Never gets boring

[@frizzlethecat2084]

I don't think I would have ever imagined a Scot reacting to Schuh des Manitu-Trailers! That is a hilarious mix of accents 😄 I don't know if you could truly get the movie without knowing the old Karl May movies about the Apache-chief Winnetou and his friend/bloodbrother Old Shatterhand. They are probably a staple for every German who's at least ... thirty? I'd guess. Anyway, bit of a long rant ahead and since you asked about whether there are still movies made like this: I don't know any recent German movie that plays around like that. It's tricky because you don't want to truly offend the original work (I mean...or maybe you do?) when it was a well-loved franchise or movie. Also, some jokes just didn't age well. One where it worked really well is the movie Galaxy Quest from 1999, which found the exact balance for absolute Star Trek fans, making lovingly fun of the tropes and the fans but not offending. If you never saw it, you should check it out. But it truly helps if you know the basics around Star Trek ;-) Which is another thing about parodies - you should know the basics of the original to get the most enjoyment out of it. Karl May wrote books about that imagined Apache-chief and Old Shatterhand and because it was the times of the times, the chief was a noble, thoughtful, great person because that was a bit of his trademark: creating "noble wild men" to teach the rough, mean, money-loving and bloodthirsty white men how to be better. It was easy black-and-white narration - good guys, bad guys, a damsel in distress (sometimes male damsels but usually accompanied by female ones) and the chief and his friend save everyone - yoohoo. It was very popular and even today, there's live-plays during summer in two places in Germany where the different books are acted out, with real horses and shooting (no real bullets) and all kinds of fun things to watch. So the writer, actor + director Bully Herbig had a TV-sketch-comedy show with two friends and it had a segment whith Winnetou and Shatterhand, usually making fun of the tropes from the original movies, spoken in Bavarian accents. They were a big hit on the show and so they wanted to make a real movie of it. But they weren't allowed to use the real names from the books (or maybe they didn't want to in the first place 🤷‍♂) so they called the main characters "Ranger" and "Abahachi". Abahachi is already a fun name because a recurring character in the original books was the half-Native American/half-white young woman named "Apanachi". I am unsure whether explaining the basis of the jokes actually helps to get them. *shrug* So anyway.

[@the-reading-lemon]

The key thing to understand about Germans is that (T)Raumschiff Surprise and Schuh des Manitu are both so famous and contain so many iconic lines that people have simply adopted tons of quotes from them into their everyday language and only remember where they come from when they re-watch the movies. They are two of the highest-grossing German movies ever made, which really says a lot.

[@rdmname]

special appreciation for "wo die schoschonen schöner wohnen". it's dumb but the delivery is so ridiculously perfect (where the shoshones live prettier. schöner wohnen, living prettier, is a german home remodeling show)

[@marlenemachek6129]

I am from Austria and I liked the movie a lot. Plus I really love your accent!!

[@DerMarkus1982]

"Schau-Schau, Schoschonen!" 😁👍 Can't believe this movie came out almost 24 years ago? I am old... And no, the "Superperforator" was made up just for this one *slightly macabre* musical scene...

[@calise616]

Schuh des Manitu was waaaay more popular than (T)raumschiff Surprise. The latter one was not really that good (IMO)

[@44WarmocK77]

True. The "Unser (T)Raumschiff" skits were MUCH better.

[@lynnm6413]

Too many serious Nerds loving real Trek in D

[@calise616]

@@lynnm6413 nonsense

[@voyance4elle]

@@lynnm6413 No it just wasn't as well written.

[@DoloresLehmann]

Absolutely! Like most, I absolutely loved Schuh des Manitu and tried not to have too high expectations for (T)raumschiff Surprise, but nevertheless, it was underwhelming. Funny, sure, but not as brilliant by a long shot.

[@mariepenot3110]

The bean thing comes from the 17th century. The saying refers to blue beans with stands for weapons ammunition

[@honeybunnyhanni1931]

Ever since I was a child this has been my absolute favorite movie. I know most of the lines and spent years perfecting my Winnetouch impression. If I'm not mistaken Der Schuh des Manitu is the highest grossing German production in German cinema history 5:49 that's me if I ever end up in a situation like that. I'd die laughing, knowing I crossed something off my bucket list

[@YourLastBraincell-x9o]

One of the comedic elements is also that the characters often talk in bavarian/southern german dialect and not high german as they would in a normal movie That is also what the „Servus“ in the beginning was about: it is bavarian dialect and means „Hello“

[@werpu12]

Yes the equivalent would be to have the "native" americans talk in a scottish accent, that would come close!

[@svenkampen1647]

If I remember the song scene correctly. It's jingle from an advertisement for a firearm. In the scene the villain asks the good guy he has at his mercy. "Any last wish?" And one of them response. "Yes, the song from the super perforator spot.", cue the villain and performing the song.

[@fusssel7178]

I mean, he did grant them the last wish, so he is a villain who keeps his word. You have to respect that :D

[@killerkraut9179]

It was a Parody of the old Mr Clean Song Commercial Song!

[@tobiaslieblein2686]

Happy to see you enjoying this 😂 yes, it has a lot from Monty's humor, plus they use some bavarian slang which gives the jokes a special flavour. Bully was just one of many slapstick artists at that time, and they're really really good. Their ability of parody, slapstick, as well as their ideas were so brilliant. It was Fridays when there were even a few shows in a row, and you'd have to laugh your head off .. One of the last ones was "switch reloaded" a parody of all kinds of TV shows and VIPs. ( f.i. Heidi Klum) Today, there is not as much slapstick any more but there's some cabaret going on.

[@jawosammadennhier7062]

"Lass' alles 'raus, Jacqueline." - If someone "throws up, unstoppable" - his general frustration about everything, and some issues specifically. "Let it all out..." 😁

[@roberthoffmann604]

Seen this in the cinema, have it on VHS and can watch it on KZbin/Google TV...I am 2 clicks away of starting movie right now 😂

[@hakuna..matata]

The last clip is iconic in Germany! 😂❤️💯 Several times when I was watching the movie with my father back in the day, we replayed it (this scene) so many times. 😅

[@johnnyringo80]

The title crawl reads "The myth lives - the legend is back". This is a take on the old 1960s Karl-May-Movies, which everyone in Germany grew up with (the are a staple on TV around holiday season). It was filmed mainly in the southern desert region of Spain, which is in turn a traditional filming location for the classic Italian western movies (because it looks like the Texan/Mexican borderlands).

[@Nr4747]

This movie was *a lot* more popular than Traumschiff Surprise - a ton of people watched it multiple times because it was just that much fun to see it in the cinema with all the laughter going on around you. The part with the song and tap dance is a great joke because the main bad guy asks the good guys if the have one last wish and the feminine brother of the main characters asks for a ficticious commercial jingle. The bad guys not only agreeing to that request but going over the top with singing, dancing and tapdancing is really funny in that context.

[@johnnythemachine6949]

So to explain this we have to go far back in time: At the end of the 19th Century there was a German dude called Karl May (1842-1912), who wrote some quite succesful Western novels about the German Immigrant Old Shatterhand and his blood brother Winnetou, a Chief of the Apache tribe, who experienced many adventures in the Old West. He claimed that those books were based on true events and that he was Old Shatterhand himself. Meanwhile he never set foot into the US until he was an old man, long after he published his books. He actually was a conman in his youth and even spent some time in prison for it. Nonetheless his books were quite popular for many generations and inspired a series of movies based on his novels in the 1960's and 70's. Those movies were also quite popular and inspired Michael "Bully" Herbig and his ensmeble from the show "Bullyparade" to make a parody of those movies in the early 2000's, which is "Der Schuh des Manitu" and it became the most commercially successful German movie

[@la-go-xy]

Btw. Old Shatterhand was a trapper rather than a ranger ;-)

[@johnnythemachine6949]

@la-go-xy Yes but in the first place he was a surveyor for a railway company

[@Nintendo_Freak8x]

Jetzt geht jeder noch mal aufs Klo und dann reiten wir los!

[@amityn.1201]

I love that movie. I watched it as a kid and even now i watch it every time while studying. Also many scenes had been famous on TikTok in the last time.

[@GödekeMichels_72]

The parody only tangenly aimed at the old western movies from the US. It was specifically aimed at a series of movies from Germany that put Novels by Karl May into movies. These novles were a romantisation of the Wild West by an author who basically wrote them on hearsay alone. The German movie series even at the time they were made were basically in the category so bad that they become good again. In our time and day we would consider them outragously dated (both novels and movies). But in the early 2000s out of Bully's audience pretty much everyone would know the source material he was makeing fun of.

[@Maarcus01]

As a boy I literally sat in front of my parents dvd player and replayed this part of the movie over and over, I was obsessed with that scene

[@sven.krause75]

I was at the premiere of the film at the Cinedom (cinema) in Cologne. We laughed our asses off back then. The leading actor and director Bully Herbig was also there and said a few words.

[@Karl-me4mh]

Der Schuh des Manitou is a direct parody of an old german Westen production. There was a german writer by the name of "Karl May", who wrote quite a few books about the wild west. His books once were so polular in Germany that they made many of them into movies aswell. The most famous ones of those were the stories of Winnetou the Apache and his friend and blood brother Old Shatterhand. And THAT is exactly the visual style and the characters that is the basis of this parody. Huge parts of the movies back then were filmed in Croatia. A lot of the scenes in Schuh des Manitou were filmed in Andalusia instead, around the area, where "For a Fistful of Dollars" was filmed aswell.

[@xDasMottex]

we ALL have watched it :)

[@KaitoKiara]

The movie is so popular and famous in Germany that some quotes from the movie have found their way into the regular language.

[@katb.78]

Definitely more popular than "Traumschiff Surprise", that one was a real hype for some time.

[@prich7989]

Everybody asked if you want Some Prosecco.. 😂..legendary...good old times

[@zubunapy]

A little known fact: When the villan is seen the first time, there is some music written by Peavy Wagner and Victor Smolski from the german metal band Rage. The favorite band of Stefan Raab btw^^ The song is "Straight to Hell"

[@uwelohr7958]

In the end of the Bully Films they always show bloopers which are of course even more funny. The villain is Sky DuMont, a famous german actor and dubbing voice of several popular foreign actors, as you can imagine

[@andrebrodbeck3883]

The three main actors of traumschiff surprise and schuh des Manitu are Michael "bully" Herbig, Christian Tramitz and Rick Kavanian. They became famose in the late 90's with their comedy show called "bullyparade". These movies were created after the show ended and are based on caracters and sketches in that show. Nowadays Michael Herbig is the Moderator of the german version of last one laughing, Christian Tramitz played a police officer in a criminal series a few years ago, and on Rick i totaly lost track.

[@funnyml3356]

There is an English dub for this film. For now, I only could find outtakes from it. The YT video is called "Der Schuh des Manitu Englische Synchro"

[@voyance4elle]

👏👏👏👏👏 I hope he sees this comment!!! :D

[@pifnet]

The song was indeed part of the movie - one of multiple. A musical based on the movie has been performing for multiple years in Berlin. Quite sure they also went to other cities. The english subtitles only do it partially justice, though, since the movie was full of wordplay as well...

[@DoloresLehmann]

Another little anecdote: When I first saw the movie, the main villain, with his mixture of elegance, arrogance and condescencion, gave me somehow "Argentinian vibes". Later, in an interview with Herbig, I heard that he had asked the actor in question (Sky DuMont), if he could ride a horse. He answered: "I was raised in Argentina, of course I can ride!" Later yet, I found out that's not true. He was born in Argentina and lived there until he was three years old, and honestly, that he would nevertheless claim to have been raised there is the most Argentinian thing I can think of.

[@SusanHölscher]

Just watching the Trailer made me laugh all over. 🙋🏻‍♀️🎄😃 Großartig Bully Herbig🇩🇪

[@rayofmystery]

One of the best German movies

[@TwistyZePlotty]

My absolute favorite fun fact of this film is that Santa Maria (the guy in the black suit) is canonically Santa Claus' brother and is the cataclyst for him starting to distribute gifts as a way to make up for what his brother did

[@Treadstone7]

"(...)and before the break of dawn we'll have you back where you belong - sprink(e)ling the lawn" 😅

[@agricolaurbanus6209]

The movie is actually a parody on the legendary German 'Winnetou and Old Shatterhand' movies of the 70s, which were based on the novels of iconic German adventure story author Karl May. He also did a whole serious of novels about fictitious German adventurer Kara ben Nemsi (Karl the German) and his helper Hadschi Halef Omar who travelled down to Arabia for several adventures. Karl May, born 1842, had never been to America or Arabia himself before he wrote these stories, which play in the mid to late 19th century. He still caught the imaginations of the readers though and sold around 200 million copies.

[@x37v1990]

The whole move is basically a spoof of the italo western movies and the german "Winnetou" books/movies by Karl May from the 60s. The movies comedy was pretty much like the Mel Brooks or Leslie Nielsen movies, with a lot of puns all the time, so you gotta watch it several times to catch all of them. The song they sing was the only one, because the bad guy (called Santa Maria) asked them if they have any last wishes and the effeminate brother spouts out "The song from the super perforator advertisement", which seems to be a special kind of bullet. The guy who made is, is currently doing a sequel to it, called "the canou of Manitou"

[@Tenkoman]

Spain, Czechia and the Balkans - home of European "Western" movies.

[@matsudoambition2509]

Not to forget italy, they literally have their own genre XD

[@Tenkoman]

@ True - eventhough when they had the budget, one certain village in Spain was used for them.

[@wildshiftspictures2607]

Funniest german movie ever! For me on one level with monty python, though prettie different in the style of humor

[@DoloresLehmann]

It's more Mel Brooks than Monty Python.

[@Jonathan-kraai]

yay mert is reacting to the superperforator! i still sing that song from time to time to myself and the poor victims around.

[@iconoclast8761]

During the last Summerbreeze (metal festival in germany) some dudes went around at night, playing the superperforator song in a loop starting with "habt ihr noch einen letzten wunsch?" while going around camps to find people to drink beer with. everyone knew it and it was super funny.

[@Sensibar007]

It’s especially taking on the iconic German Winnetou movies from the 60s after the novels by Karl May. Winnetou is a noble Red Indian who befriends a German „rookie“ to the Wild West with a strong fist (Omd Shatterhand) and they have many adventures together.

[@sabinezimmermann7985]

What was funny too was when he said" ich habe ein Stammlokal gebaut für meinen Stamm...😅😅😅". Stamm plus something means the preferred or usual thing. Stammlokal means a sort of favourite pub, usual meeting point, but Stamm als means tribe.

[@eisikater1584]

You definitely should watch the full movie! I watched it at the cinema twice and still think it's one of the best parodies ever.

[@JackieR1973]

and my favorite quote: ich bin mit der Gesamtsituation unzufrieden" -> "i am unsatisfied with this whole situation" in a conversation both the main characters bound to a pole to be killed and discussing their relationship. This phrase i use often in normel conversations when it fits and everyone knows it and laugh... its a real german pop culture slang...

[@embivi77]

In the superperforater song, in the end, I always hear …and before the break of dawn we’ll have you back where you belong - sprinkling the lawn