Watch: Shoppen 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – By attending speed dating, 9 single women and 9 single men are ‘shopping’ for a life partner..
Plot: An almost bombproof method of staying single is called “speed dating”. 18 people participate in such an event. Nine men and nine women are sitting opposite each other in order to sell optimally under the pressure of time and to find a partner. They are looking for a date – and have nothing else in common. They talk about allergies, cappuccino, consumer behavior, buses and designer clothes: the list of serious embarrassments is long. Yet none of the lonely hearts has given up the hope of romance.
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Ditzy relationship propaganda
Not finding the right words is everybody’s problem in this vaudeville-type urban comedy. They don’t know what to say, and they don’t know how to say it, which is why they embark on the potentially humiliating enterprise of pre-arranged speed dating. Unfortunately, they all come across as cardboard characters rather than real people. The story follows a conventional three-act structure: getting to know the sizable cast in their sorry single lives, the actual dating circuit, and a final stretch of romantic fallout, showcasing some of the new-found couples’ follies. Because it’s all so predictable, I’d say that as a narrative, “Shoppen” is a failure. As a comedy, most of the time it’s too goofy to be really funny. Thumbs up to Kathrin von Steinburg. She stands out from the soap opera crowd as the aloof, independently wealthy Miriam. Great makeup on her too (Verena Weißert): Heavy eye shadow meets skin-tone lip gloss, creating a brooding and bohemian, yet girlish effect. Thumbs up also to Stefan Zinner as the Bavarian love machine and Tanja Schleiff as the hot nutritionist. They bypass the communication challenge by way of the timeless body language of copulation.
Not as good as it might seem
Well, I have to admit that this movie brought some occasional laughs to my face. OK, but that does not make it a good movie. Most of the characters are terrible stereotypes and truly unconvincing. Not all of them give great acting performances, but some really try, but fail because their characters are badly written. The perfect example is Julia Koschitz: She changes her eating habits from one talk to the other, on one talk she does not drink alcohol on the next she is allergic to champagne, she feels too beautiful for most people (in fact she is) but still ends up with the “perfect” fit concerning the looks, and refuses to give some more “realistic” guys a chance, and so on… The end is very cheesy, although I like one of the final scenes, when everybody finally stops talking and the director gives us a chance to catch our breath again. Shoppen is basically a movie that offers some cheap laughters (mostly because it is about sex and relationships, I assume) and maybe some short entertainment. Still, the whole picture is one big stereotype and nothing is really special about it.
Original Language de
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min) (Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Ralf Westhoff
Writer Ralf Westhoff
Actors Sebastian Weber, Anna Böger, Felix Hellmann
Country Germany
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
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Sound Mix Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Film Length 2,598 m
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Printed Film Format 35 mm