To begin with there are plenty of Youtubers which produce great content, like TotalBiscuit, Jesse Cox, Gimmeaflakeman; Jim Sterling and many others and then there are the others, the cash grabbers like most of the German YT community. This movie is the sorry example of a cheaply made cash in on the temporary fame of German YouTubers, most of them not known to anyone older than 13. This movie is almost an exact copy of their YouTube content, an unfunny and uninspired succession of lame jokes and stupid pointless blathering. If you want to spend your time doing something meaningful go watch some paint dry or just watch out of the window at 3 a.m. Believe me, it's more fun than this steaming pile of horse dung!

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"Kartoffelsalat" is a relatively new German movie that features some of Germany's most known Youtube personalities as actors. The film's writer director is Michael David Pate and it will be difficult for him to come up with a worse film at any point in his career. This is described as a comedy and horror movie here on IMDb. Is it scary? Absolutely not. Is it funny? Absolutely unfunny. Lead actor Torge Oelrich is a disaster from start to finish. This film has only been for the most despicable of reasons. There can never have been any intention of coming up with a quality movie, it was all about cashing in. Most of the people in here have hundreds of thousands or even millions of subscribers on the world's most famous video site. So maybe these would also pay to see these people in a theater? I am not sure how commercially successful this film turned out, but it truly is a disastrous watch. But I am not too disappointed in these Youtube stars. Most of them use their channels for stupid contents anyway and also promote products for which the companies pay them to say they really use them. So no surprise these scam artists came up with another failure here.

This film also is going nowhere. At times, it seemed like a 100% parody, at other times it took itself seriously. As this was only rarely the case, it would have been fine if the parody aspects managed decent humor, but they did not. None of the dialogs were smart or witty. "Breaking Bad" references on several occasions were completely embarrassing and the way they tried to channel Jella Haase in "Fack Ju Göhte" was the worst of the worst.

The ones who really disappoint me that they took part in this endeavor are the real actors, such as Norbert Heisterkamp, Katy Karrenbauer or Wolfgang Bahro. With Jenny Elvers and Tobias Schenke I am not surprised at all. These 2 never had any talent. But the biggest disappointment for me is Otto Waalkes, one of Germany's best comedians of all time and a true inspiration for young rising comedians. I have no idea what he was thinking to appear in this film and also work on it behind the camera. Why Otto why? These people are not worth your attention. Fitting that the production company is called "Take 25" as it could very well be true that it may have taken them 25 takes on several occasions to actually get a scene done due to the lack of talent from most cast members. And it still looks like crap. Terrible movie. One of the worst ever made? Probably not. But still really really bad. Highly not recommended.

I stumbled upon the 2015 German horror comedy here in 2021 by random luck. I had never heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it. And with it being a zombie horror comedy, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and watch it.

Why this 2015 movie from writers Torge Oelrich and Michael David Pate has gotten such low rating here on IMDb is just beyond my comprehension, because "Kartoffelsalat" (aka "Potato Salad") is a great zombie comedy pseudo-spoof. It was very much in the likes of older movies such as "Hot Shots!", "Top Secret", "Airplane!" and so on. So yeah, if you sit down to watch "Kartoffelsalat" with the intentions of watching a serious zombie movie, then you are in for a rude awakening.

The storyline told in "Kartoffelsalat" was pretty straight forward, and I found it to be entertaining enough. This wasn't really comedy that made me laugh, but it was comedy that worked out well enough given the storyline and the situations portrayed throughout the course of the movie.

The acting in the movie was adequate. I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress here, but then again I am not overly familiar with the German movie industry.

If you enjoy a good light-hearted comedy pseudo-spoof with zombies, then "Kartoffelsalat" is definitely worth taking the time to sit down and watch. I was entertained by this movie, that's for sure.

My rating of director Michael David Pate's 2015 horror comedy "Kartoffelsalat" lands on a six out of ten stars.